 Let me read this one too, Tsucho. Can you talk about the history between Russia and Ukraine? Okay, again. So I'm going to answer this. I'm not going to read the chat in regards to any new questions or anything. I'm just going to stay on focus so I can give you guys a lowdown, really speedy Gonzales lowdown regarding my take on what's going on in Russia and Ukraine and how this has come to be. And Sleepy Waves asks, Tsucho, can you talk about the history between Russia and Ukraine? Now if we're going to talk about history between Russia and Ukraine, it's huge. There is the famine during Stalinist time where many Ukrainians were sacrificed to feed Mother Russia and all that jazz. And I know about it. I don't know the details about it and stuff like this, all the specifics about it. But there's a lot of history there, right? There's also, on the bat front, there's also a lot of brotherhood there, right? So depending on what you decide to focus on, you can say there's major conflict and there should be collaboration going on, right? But what I'm going to do is I'm going to take you to 2008 to really understand what's going on right now in terms of why this war has come to be. In my opinion, this is part two or replay of what happened between Russia and Georgia. And I wrote, I was following the events there pretty closely between what was going on, between Russia and Georgia, okay, where NATO had come out and said, oh yes, we're going to include Georgia into NATO. And they were starting to talk about putting weapons in Georgia and stuff like this, right? And Russia kept on warning them saying, look, stop doing what you're doing because this is a threat to us. And if you do not stop doing what you're doing, then we will have to retaliate, okay? And this was a build-up, just the way it has been a build-up for Ukraine, but the Ukraine build-up has been longer, okay? And this is the piece that I wrote. Now, depending on what browser you're using, when you click on that link, if you go through Chrome or something, it might tell you, oh, be careful or Firefox or depending. It's a legit site, it's webarchive.org. And it's an article that I wrote on my previous blog in 2008, the first part. I'm going to read you a part of this, okay? And I titled this post, World War III expands into Europe and awakens the Russian bear, the next stage in the resource wars, right? Now, we're 13 years later, okay? And this is another stage, okay? This is part two, part three, part four. It's probably part four now because Syria's part of that as well, right? So that title that I wrote was World War III expands into Europe and awakens the Russian bear, the next stage in the resource wars. I'm going to read you the first little intro part, okay? And then what I did was link up additional articles that I've written the year before, months before to put it all together because it's one really calculus that I've been trying to present when I was blogging a lot of economics and politics, okay? So I'm going to read you a part of this and Chernobyl, of course, Chernobyl, of course, there's so much history between Russia and Ukraine, right? And I'm going to link you up to other things as well, right? But let me read you this part. Remembering history. Now, remember this was 13 years ago when I just got into blogging like three years in. My writing could be considered to be dramatic. I linked up a lot of sources. A lot of these sources probably links are dead because censorship online and whatnot, sites go down and whatnot, right? But this is what I wrote. Remembering history. Usually there are disagreements as to the exact dates of the beginnings of conflict, especially when these conflicts are global. Which act lit the spark of the tinderbox? Which straw was the final one? Like peak oil, peak oil itself, the beginnings of war are often visible only in retrospect. And some of this stuff are sentences or a couple of sentences and stuff that I took out of articles that I had linked in their quotation marks, okay? So I sort of tried to put a collage together with my words, putting, you know, acting as the binding glue, right? Continuing with the article. For example, some would argue that World War II began in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. Others were picked the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or maybe even the 1933 Reichstag fire. The only consensus regarding World War II is that it was devastating. What is happening at the present? Now remember this is 2008. True to the old proverb, quote, if we don't learn our history, we're doomed to repeat it and quote, as it was with World War II, so it appears with World War III. Many, including George Bush, believed that 9-11 was the start of World War III. The nominees for this title are Plentiful, Afghanistan, Iraq-1, Iraq-2, Syria, Jerusalem, et cetera. The beginning of World War III could have also been triggered by the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperationer Organization, or the opening of Iran's oil burs, which is hastening the collapse of the US petrodollar. There's also the belief that World War III may be less of an attack on a certain country or a people as it is a war between corporate governments and their citizenry, Ukraine, Canada. However, if you are still undecided as to the exact start of World War III, given the above choices, then how about picking 8 August 2008 when the war between Russia and Georgia began? This date will surely be considered by many historians to be the beginning of World War III, since it means that the current wars in Africa and Asia have now spilled over into the European continent. Second segment on this, this is a three-segment thing, or four-segment thing. Why Russia and Georgia are at war? There are many reasons why Russia and Georgia are at war, but as it was with Afghanistan and Iraq, oil and gas pipelines stand out as the primary ones. The reason for such a war, however, are a moot point. What is important is who benefits from this, who is orchestrating it, and what will be the end result. The first part is easy, the only benefactors of war are corporations. As for the second part, according to the Russian officials, quote, it was the US that orchestrated the current conflict, end quote, while the Georgian minister has personally thanked Israel for what is happening. And the third, the end and the third, the end result of such conflict can only bring about the expansion of World War III and everything that it entails. What else could possibly be the final outcome when two of the most powerful militaries of the world clash, one directly and the other through a client state? It should be becoming clear that the implications of what is happening are unfanthenable. Should I read you the next one? No, and then I'll end it there. Those are the main things that were related to Georgia and Russia. Now, there was a lot more going on here. What I'm going to take you to is another article that I wrote in 2014 regarding Ukraine and Russia. I was following the events for Ukraine and Russia pretty in-depth as well at the time. There was so much going on, so much going on. I did multiple updates to this piece and whatnot, but I'm just going to read you the main piece I wrote as it was unfolding or as it was unfolding, I believe. I entitled this piece because this relates to Armenia as well. This will give you a picture of what has been happening in former occupied states on Eastern Europe, because Armenia is considered to be part of Europe. Eastern Europe in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and has been taking place since the Iron Curtain fell. It's connected with the verbal agreement that the United States and Russia had or at the time USSR had, saying that NATO would not expand one inch eastward to embrace, to encircle Russia. This is a huge game that we're witnessing. This is what I titled this article. What Cold War? This Cold War, death follows McCain to the Ukraine as the Armenian ultimatum to screw over Russia fails again for the EU and the US. Let me read that again. What Cold War? This Cold War, death follows McCain to the Ukraine as the Armenian ultimatum to screw over Russia fails again for the EU and the US. The reason that this title is a mouthful because there's so much going on and they're all connected. This is just one of the connections that you can make between what was being offered to Armenia and what was being offered to Ukraine and how the two decided to go their separate, made different decisions. I'm just going to read a little bit from this. Maybe we'll read the whole thing, let's see where it takes us. I haven't read this for a while. It has become obvious that what's going on in Ukraine is an extension of the Cold War as the US and the EU try and peddle a modified version of the Armenian ultimatum to their people. Sound complicated? It's not really. What's going on in Ukraine is an economic proxy war that has turned sour. The trade deal that the EU has offered to Ukraine is garbage. To find out how bad it is, all we have to do is look at why Armenia ended up telling the EU to shove it when they tried to jam the same deal down their throats. In September 2013, Armenia called off a Armenian-EU association agreement after they found out that the trade deal was not really about easing trade restrictions with the EU, but about screwing over Russia and themselves by extension. I'm going to read a little excerpt from the article that I linked here. Quote, The apparently smooth progress towards a final deal came to shuttering halt in early September when President Sarez Sargasyan met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and announced plans to join another economic bloc, the Moscow-led Customs Union. Membership of the grouping, which currently includes Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, would require Armenia to adopt the different set of trade tariffs and agreements which EU officials say are not compatible with the association agreement. Despite this, President Sargasyan says Customs Union membership would not conflict with the EU accord, which he argues would be uncoupled from the DCFTA. Armenia is ready, ready even now to sign an association agreement with the EU, Sargasyan said, in a question and answer session after addressing the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe on October 2nd. Sadly, our partners in the European Commission have said there is a clear contradiction between the Customs Union and the agreement on a free trade zone. We have suggested that we could sign just the association agreement, which mainly covers political reforms. There has recently been a lot of talk about the civilizational choice facing members of the Eastern Partnership Initiative. We have always stated that we don't believe it's right to view the issue in those terms. My wording continues. What the EU wanted Armenia to do is equivalent to telling someone that they can come over and play at your house as long as they are willing to permanently tell the rest of their family to fuck off insanity. As someone who is aware of the history of its people and the region knows the game at play and those involved, I can honestly tell you that anyone that is arrogant enough to tell Armenians to score over Russians for dangling carrot is one dumb mofo. After all, everyone knows that what the EU offers hasn't really worked out too well for the citizens of some of its periphery members such as those in Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Ireland or Portugal. The main thing we need to know about what's going on in Ukraine is that it's based on our indefinite growth-based economy. The EU and the US needing to grow to maintain their crony capitalistic system because if they don't, the bubble will pop. This is what the Ukraine deal is about, a self-consuming economic model that must devour everything in its path to maintain power. As for John McCain, death, destruction and corruption follow him everywhere. So if we're wise, we won't allow the shill to make any more speeches on other people's soil but instead arrest them for treason in the United States. And then there's a couple of more paragraphs here and stuff. Now, 2008 and 2014. 2008, I wrote the one about Georgia, 2014 about Ukraine. Here's a piece that Scott Ritter has written and it came out February 23rd yesterday. And you can find it on the global research site. And again, I apologize if I'm not reading chat but just got to get this out because we'll cut this out and put it on a segment and link up the article so anyone that wants to know what's going on at least our perspective or my perspective can follow the train of thought. This is an article that Scott Ritter wrote on is available on globalresearch.ca and it's available on multiple other sites. And if you don't know who Scott Ritter is, you don't know politics, you don't know geopolitics, you have no idea what has taken place in the world for the last 25 years. Scott Ritter's writing are essential reading. If you want to understand what has taken place on the geopolitical front in the Middle East and Europe for the last 25 years, at least, at least, at least. He was a weapons inspector that tried to prevent the United States and the coalition of the willing to in invading Iraq. He was the one that said he was in charge of inspecting weapons of mass destruction and said came out and said there are no weapons of mass destruction. This war is going to be devastating. It's for no cause. It's for no reason. There's no way the United States should go in there. And he tried everything he could to stop the war from happening in 2003, the invasion, which is really the catalyst that has really sent the world into a tailspin, right? And he was dismissed from his position and made a pariah. You need to read this article if you want to know what's going on right now at the present on February 24th, 2022. Okay. And the title of this article is why a war may be the only solution Americans can bring to this conflict. What passes for expertise in Russia on Russia in the USA today is corrupted by partisan politics, which distorts fact based analysis. Every American, every Western person should read this article I read it this morning. And here's an analysis from the Doran. And the Doran is doing, does fantastic analysis regarding Ukraine. They hit and miss regarding certain other parts of the world. But regarding Europe, sorry, specifically in Ukraine, Ukraine, very focused on Middle East, they're very good as well. Okay. So Europe and Middle East, they're pretty good. Okay. And this is their analysis of what halfway through this this segment here. Okay. And these are the four pieces that you need to go through mine. You know, I gave you the gist of it. You get a little historical feel. If you want to read, if you want to spend time reading, read Scott Ritter's article and watch the Doran. You can skip what what I mentioned, my pieces, because I read you most of them. Okay. Aside from that, gang, I'm going back to the chat. Apologies if I needed to get that off my chest, because I know people are going to want to know my take. And this is the best way I can do it. If someone asks me my take, I'll just link them up and say, this is it. Okay.