nuclear weapons. people fear escalation. at the end of the day it s going to be the ukrainians and their bravery and dedication to this very old idea, the idea of sovereignty, freedom. it will be their dedication to that that determines what happens vladimir putin has made the that the west has cornered him. i ll put that hang out command to show that nato looks like. that the west had some sort of agreement that they would not get that close to russia. and then that what the ukraine will never join nato. one thing to see that picture. there are that ukraine is not a nato country. it s in between eastern europe and russia that s not really true, this isn t really about ukraine and nato is a? no, it s not about ukraine in fact a few days ago the german chancellor was in moscow and he said look as long as i ukraine will never be a nato. so essentially made that promise that had no impact. that s really not what this is. about it s not
we soon learned that trump campaign officials were entertaining at least two different proposals to hand over ukrainian territory to russia. the mueller investigation found the trump campaign chair who before taking the job from trump for free had worked for ukraine s proposed autocrat had multiple discussions with the intelligence officer about a so-called peace plan. trump s campaign chair himself admitted the plan was a back door means for russia to control ukraine. another so-called peace plan was delivered to the desk of president trump s national security adviser during his first month in office, hand-delivered by donald trump s personal lawyer. imagine, that, it, too, proposed handing over eastern ukraine and invading crimea. you see if you give putin everything he wants, voila, you shall have peace.
in the summer of 2016 at the republican national convention that was prepared to nominate donald trump to be the gop candidate for president, the republican party suddenly and inexplicably changed its platform on russia and ukraine. ever since russia annexed crimea in 2014 and began to support russian separatists. that summer of 2016, the republican party officially renounced support for arming ukraine in that fight against russia. one rnc delegate said it was trump himself who directed that change in the platform. it was such a weird specific thing. but it was just the beginning.
the way that white racists describe people of color. i think because ukrainians quote-unquote look white americans can t possibly see a white person not having any control whatsoever over their their individual agency. but that s exactly what s happening here,t this is it imperialism, but it goes deeper than politics. theth way putin describes it. one more thing, in his speech, what a lot of people are not paying attention, what he said about crimea, calls them ca terrorists. he hass a very islamophobic mind-set against crimea tartars, and she s basically trying to rewrite history and make the history that ukrainians themselves don t fully exist because he doesn t think the countryca of ukraine ever exist which is very consistent with the attitudes of post-1991
peacekeepers, requesting russian insistence, there s a whole smoke and mirrors thing going on the you and i know that is not true. who s the fooling with this? it s a great question, it s intended for the russian people. he was addressing the russian nation tonight. he wasn t addressing the he got a little ahead of the i watched all three interventions the other day. first the security council meeting, i can listen to russian and understand at. and then they said let s just like you reported. to approve this. he gave his address to the nation and the two leaders of the two peoples republics. by the way i want to focus on. that peoples republic s. that s what stalin called his regimes in eastern europe when he installed them after 1945. and then he just sat down and sign the decrees recognizing them as independent countries.