Sikorski on point

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 28 March 2025 18:08.

Radosław Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, powerfully rebutting the accusations of the Russian representative to the UN Security Council, Vasily Nebenzya:

Madame President,

I associate myself with the words of minister Kuleba and my colleagues from the European Union.

I’m amazed at the tone and the content of the presentation by the Russian ambassador.

And I thought I could be useful by correcting the record. Ambassador Nebenzya has called Kyiv a client of the West. Actually, Kyiv is fighting to be independent of anybody.

He calls them a criminal Kyiv regime. In fact, Ukraine has a democratically elected government.

He calls them Nazis. Well, the president is Jewish, the defence minister is Muslim, and they have no political prisoners.

He said that Ukraine was wallowing in corruption. Well, Alexei Navalny documented how honest and full of probity his own country is.

He blamed the war on US neo-colonialism. In fact, Russia was trying to exterminate Ukraine in the 19th century, again under Bolsheviks, and now it is the third attempt.

He said we are prisoners of Russophobia. “Phobia” means irrational fear. Yet, we are being threatened almost every day by the former president of Russia and Putin’s propagandists with nuclear annihilation. I put it to you that it is not irrational – when Russia threatens us, we trust them.

He said that we are denying Russia’s security interests. Not true. We only started rearming ourselves when Russia started invading her neighbours.

He even said that Poland attacked Russia during World War II. What is he talking about? It was the Soviet Union that attacked Poland together with Nazi Germany on the 17th of September 1939. They even held a joint victory parade on the 22th of September.

He says that Russia has always only beaten back aggression. Well, what were then Russian troops doing at the gates of Warsaw in August 1920? They were on a topographic excursion? The truth is that for every time Russia was invaded, she has invaded ten times.

He says that it is a perfidious proxy war by the West. My advice is – don’t fall into the Western trap. Withdraw your troops to international borders and avoid this Western plot.

He also says that there was an illegal coup in Kyiv in 2014. I was there. There was no coup. President Yanukovych murdered a hundred of his compatriots and was removed from office by a democratically elected Ukrainian parliament, including by his own party, the Party of Regions.

And finally he is saying that we the West are somehow trying to persuade that Russia can never be beaten. Well, Russia did not win the Crimean War, it didn’t win the Russo-Japanese war, it didn’t win the World War I, it didn’t win the battle of Warsaw, it didn’t win in Afghanistan and it didn’t win the Cold War.

But there’s good news. After each failure there were reforms.

Such demagoguery is unworthy of a member on a permanent basis of the Security Council. But what the ambassador has achieved is to remind us why we resisted Soviet domination and what Ukraine is resisting now.

They failed to subjugate us then. They’ll fail to subjugate Ukraine and us now.

Thank you very much.

Tags: Geopolitics, Russian Politics, World Affairs

Comments:

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:38 | #

Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees
March 30, 2025 | Sundance |

The dynamic is obvious to any intellectually honest observer, which is to say U.S. and Western media disqualify themselves and continue pushing preferred EU narratives.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the latest U.S. proposal for a minerals deal that would create a partnership to repay the United States for ongoing financial support. According to Zelenskyy, the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.

However, it is important for U.S. readers to remember the U.S. aid package already underway pays for the entire operation of the Ukraine federal spending liabilities, including pensions, government worker paychecks and everything normally within a govt budget. U.S. taxpayers are not only subsidizing the war with munitions, but we are also subsidizing the government operation and citizens of Ukraine. Within that spending there is MASSIVE corruption ongoing.

When Zelensky rejects (1) the terms of a “minerals deal,” (2) rejects U.N peacekeepers, (3) rejects the predicate for peace that Russia will retain part of Eastern Ukraine geography, and (4) rejects the offered security guarantees, he is also rejecting the idea that American taxpayers should be repaid for all their support.

Almost all of these rejections appear based on Zelensky’s belief the U.K, France and European allies can replace any support lost by President Trump changing his approach toward Ukraine. Zelensky, who has not been elected, is developing a reputation for being so difficult, so demanding, so spoiled and temperamental that neither Vladimir Putin nor President Trump wants to deal with him.

Against this backdrop, the ceasefire deal is tenuous at best. Russia, who previously said they did not expect Zelensky to stand by any ceasefire proposal, continues to launch airstrikes against Ukraine as Zelensky continues to prove Vladimir Putin correct by rejecting U.S. proposed terms for a ceasefire – while claiming Russia is not abiding.

Western Ukrainians are influenced more by the propaganda from the European Union, Brussels, France and the U.K, than they are from NATO military.

The support for war amid the EU member states is directly proportional to the severity of their leftist, socialist and WEF tendencies. The more anti-nationalist the nation state is, the more likely they support the Ukraine war.

(more…)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/30/zelenskyy-with-eu-support-continues-looking-for-any-excuse-to-derail-or-avoid-peace-talks-rejects-mineral-deal-demands-eu-ascension-and-security-guarantees/

A sampling of the comments:

Musings from the fringe aka Jinxy Cat
March 30, 2025 4:58 am
Reply to Maquis

At this point I don’t care if President Putin steamrolls the EU like a tube of toothpaste. Is life in Russia any more Draconian than Starmers United Kaliphate?

March 30, 2025 5:39 am
Reply to Musings from the fringe aka Jinxy Cat

Sundance wandered Russia for months without any surveillance.

Nearly twenty years ago I wandered London, found the surveillance oppressive, the angry robed strangers menacing, the yobs hauling cases of booze into my intended quarters for the stay highly unsettling, and refused to even spend the night in the country; and three days later places I had been were bombed in 7/7.

Russia may be Europe’s only hope, which may be why destroying her is Britain’s ancient obsession.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:43 | #

It is weak-minded to go along with the Russian security service’s victim-blaming propaganda. It is much worse than weak-minded to actually want the vestiges of western freedom and democracy cast out in favour of Muscovy’s autocracy and state terror.

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:52 | #

GW, the reasons for explaining the cause of the Ukraine-Russo war cannot reduced to black-and-white terms. There are many reasons to support either the Ukrainian or Russian side. It is important to continuously examine those various reasons as new information becomes available to us. For instance, you may want to consider this bit of info. when you make a determination as to who should bear the greatest responsibility for initiating the carnage.

The USA Attacked Russia

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the New York Times reveals that the USA, under the Fake Biden interregnum, was a co-belligerent in the NATO war against Russia:

The administration of US President Joe Biden was far more deeply involved in backing Ukraine’s fight against Russia than previously acknowledged, a New York Times investigation has claimed, stressing that Washington’s intelligence was indispensable for Kiev’s military operations.

The lengthy report released on Saturday offers a deep dive into an “extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology” that became Kiev’s “secret weapon” in countering Russia.

While the Pentagon supplied Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in military aid, it also provided crucial intelligence that enabled Kiev to attack Russian command and control centers and other high-value targets starting in mid-2022, the NYT said.

According to the article, the heart of this partnership lay at the US Army facility in Wiesbaden, Germany, where American and Ukrainian officers set daily targeting priorities which they reportedly referred to as “points of interest,” for fear of appearing too provocative.

American and Ukrainian officers planned major counteroffensives together and launched large long-range high-precision strikes, using Western-supplied weapons on Russia’s Crimea, the NYT also claimed. The US has also dispatched dozens of military advisers to Ukraine, some of whom were allowed to travel close to the frontline.

In 2024, the US extended its permissions to allow Ukraine carry out limited long-range strikes using American-supplied weapons into internationally recognized Russian territory – for years considered a “red line.” Washington provided Kiev with the targeting data for the strikes. One European intelligence official was shocked by the level of US involvement in the conflict, telling the Times, “they are part of the kill chain now.”

Russia would be perfectly within its rights to launch retaliatory strikes on London, Paris, Brussels, or Washington DC now. The globalist organizations headquartered in those four cities are 100-percent guilty of having attacked Russia. The only reason it won’t do so is because time is on its side; the last desperate hope of Clown World is to provoke Russia into striking back hard enough to galvanize widespread Western support for a war on Russia.

The fact that Clown World’s very clever and not-at-all transparent strategy rests on such an obvious non-starter only serves to underline how fragile their globalist neo-tower of Babel is now. At this point, Americans wouldn’t care if Russian troops not only took Kiev and Odessa, they wouldn’t care if they occupied Berlin and Brussels as well.

The constant portrayal of the patient, cautious Putin, who is probably the individual most responsible for preventing WWIII, as an aggressive dictator is such a complete inversion of the truth that it is probably going to be genuinely shocking to most people when he is eventually succeeded by a much more hardline figure who is much more willing to hold Russia’s enemies accountable for their constant provocations.

https://voxday.net/2025/03/30/the-usa-attacked-russia/

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:33 | #

BTW, explain to me how the vestiges of western freedom and democracy are being protected by your own government? Is Starmer doing such?

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:34 | #

You are repeating Russian state propaganda, Thorn. You do not understand or suspect your suggestibility to it (which is probably to be expected with the religious mind).

To those who moralise and lionise Putin I ask: what has he done to the people of Belarus, and do they want it? Any of it? Or do they want to be independent and free? I never receive a reply. Does not compute with their binary thinking.

There is no advantage to submission to a terror state. Follow Ukrainian media if you want to know what the Russian state is actually doing to Ukrainians. Today they missiled a military hospital in Kharkiv and the city centre of Kupiansk, as well as targeted civilians evacuating Sumy Oblast. This is what an order without rules generates. This is the order you are supporting, and want in the west (or just cannot understand that it is what we will get).

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:59 | #

The intellectual joke Alexandr <strike>Putin</strike>, sorry, Dugin talking to Fareed Zakaria at CNN:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/world/video/gps0330-putin-russia-ukraine-dugin

Even as he is selling Russian dominion “from Vladivostok in the east to Lisbon in the west” he repeatedly claims that Putin’s Russia protects peoples’ sovereignty and is only hostile to globalism. He seems blind to the glaringly obvious fact that any form of empire is contra sovereignty, or that great power ideology has no defence against the Money Power. Quite the contrary, it is a six-lane highway for it.