Andy: James, I would like to hear your take on this, an explanation of the root causes. You’ve lived over there and I appreciate that you will have a better understanding than me. You’re a busy man and this is a fairly long video (35mins), so I understand if you can’t watch it all.
JH: Initial look … it seems very good. More expanded take later. (0308) Had a second look … very, very good indeed. But must stick to my timetable … sleep before 0315, se y’all on the morrow.
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Having now looked through, next morning, it’s rubbish, viewed only through a western Uke lens, ignoring two major factors, skipping over them … the rise of the Ukrainian fascist groups including Azov for example, plus groups such as Right Sektor, plus the misstating of tribe Rus history, which she has no idea of, being from the western perspective only.
Where I lived, I was getting the khanate version itself through my Tatar gfs, the tribe Rus version through my Rus gfs, plus the Uke version through my mate who was from Donetsk. There’s another version, the Soviet take on history and no one was defending that.
Be very careful, any westerner watching this … you are only getting one lens, not the others
One quite offensive dismissal was the Odessa trades hall massacre, plus the CIA NATO fascist Maidan presence which was very real. On top of that is our western knowledge of the actions of Obama/Biden and the various groups … bio labs, child trafficking, Chinese influence within the Ukraine … the notion of freedom loving govt in Kiev is a complete myth … the whole thing is money and perversion. I’m not exonerating Russia, being well aware of siloviki but to cast Russia as villain here and not that western letter agency plus Uke fascist axis, calling the latter as fiction, is skewing the truth something awful.
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That’s my comment on the specific focus of Russia and the Ukraine. But there’s a broader focus and that’s globopsycho, Fabianism, even the demonic, which was not touched on in the first focus.
If we take our own malaise and why, e.g. Rothschilds, Black Nobility, old depraved families and intergenerational horror, add the deathcult and China, then place the Rus-Uke thing within that wider lens, no one comes out looking good.
If I said her lens was rubbish, I meant it was only one of these many perspectives, each with its own heroes and villains. But do be careful of anyone including “Real” or “True” in a heading … it is a surefire indicator of bias, propaganda from one perspective.
Just an example … most histories of Kazan have Ivan Grozni appearing in 1552 and I’ve been right beside that island where he camped overnight, viewing the Kremlin of the Khanate and the Princess Suyembika in that leaning tower.
Yes, the lands west of that had accepted Rus suzerainty by dint of arms or weariness but I’ve also been to a Tatar playhouse with a Tatar girl, where they presented an entirely different history … the death of the enlightened Khanate of wisdom and learning, with the monster Ivan demanding Suyembika as his bride, so she threw herself from the tower … the curtain came down on the performance.
Think for one moment that I was even allowed to see such an anti Rus performance, that it was allowed to go on in the republican state theatre, as distinct from the Rus State Opera House, some distance away.
And that lady makes out the Cossacks were freedom loving sweeties? Come on! Also, look at Zelenski today. Defender of Orthodoxy? You saw what he did to the Church and clergy, the way they are kidnapping young men to send to the Russian front. Democracy loving? I have a battleship to sell you.