Make Ukraine A Buffer State Between Russia & the EU

One of the rules for joining NATO is that a country wishing to join must have no internal disputes and must be politically and militarily stable. Ukraine is not exactly a country where there would be no divisions. With three regions where rebels are active against the Ukrainian regime, it is impossible for Ukraine to become a member. Therefore, it is absurd and there is no reason for Moscow to fear it.

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Preceding

Risk of accidental war with Russia highest in decades, general warns

A lot of talk about a war beginning soon

Boris Johnson warns Putin against Ukraine invasion

Britain warns Russia over Ukraine

US bolsters Europe with 3,000 extra troops

The strategic error Putin is potentially about to make

Optical illusions

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Additional reading

1. Entering a new period of ‘Cold War’
2. Sings of the times – Difficult moments at the borders of Europe
3. The world on the very brink of conflict
4. Putin plays dangerous poker game
5. A useless but very dangerous challenge game
6. A Brief Look at NATO and Russia’s Push to Reform the Old Soviet Union
7. Interference in internal affairs
8. Prepare for Russian invasion of Ukraine, US warns European allies
9. The peoples must prevent the outbreak of war in Europe
10. Wars and Rumors of War…Russia Moves into Belarus
11. Joe Biden warns Russia could attack next month
12. Biden predicts Russia will attack Ukraine but warns Putin of a ‘stiff price’
13. President Biden threatened to impose personal sanctions on President Putin if Russia moves to invade Ukraine
14. Putin’s ‘staged atrocity’ plan to justify Russian invasion of Ukraine
15. Ukraine’s Day of Unity
16. A country willing to stand tall against any invasion
17. PM warns Vladimir Putin against ‘tragic mistake’ as tensions rise with Ukraine
18. Moscow lists demands for defusing Ukraine tensions
19. Sergey Lavrov dismisses Liz Truss meeting as ‘like talking to a deaf person’

Joyce O’Day

Photo taken by the author (Joyce O’Day) of a bronze statue of a Russian and a Ukrainian worker holding up the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples in Kiev.

It’s time to stop the BS, NATO doesn’t even want Ukraine.

Let’s be real, Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO or the EU. It’s too corrupt and politically unstable for NATO and too economically weak for the EU.

On February 16, 2022, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (U.S. Army Retired) stated the obvious to host Laura Coates on CNN: the United States needs to acquiesce to Putin and agree that NATO membership is off the table for Ukraine. As he noted, President Biden has declared that the U.S. military will not send troops into Ukraine to fight the Russians. In short, Ukraine is not worth a nuclear war. This standoff needs to come to an end.

Oh no! We can’t…

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No Longer ‘Hidden Victims,’ Children Are Dying as Virus Surges in Indonesia

 

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No Longer ‘Hidden Victims,’ Children Are Dying as Virus Surges in Indonesia
Hundreds have died from Covid-19 in recent weeks, many of them under the age of 5. National leaders face mounting criticism that they have been unprepared.
By Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono
Jul 31 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/asia/children-deaths-virus-indonesia.html

Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them under age 5, a mortality rate greater than that of any other country and one that challenges the idea that children face minimal risk from Covid-19, doctors say.

The deaths, more than 100 a week this month, have come as Indonesia confronts its biggest surge yet in coronavirus cases over all — and as its leaders face mounting criticism that they have been unprepared and slow to act.

“Our numbers are the highest in the world,” the head of the Indonesian Pediatric Society, Dr. Aman…

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Grenzeloze Hopeloosheid

Vast en zeker kende het Coronavirus geen grenzen, maar ook heel wat mensen konden geen grenzen trekken voor hun gedrag en veroorloofden het zich om zo maar grenzen op alle gebieden te overkruisen, in plaats zich aan de corona-maatregelen te houden.