For many people in the West it is not exactly easy to understand what is going on in Ukraine right now. Why Ukraine fights? With whom? Why is Putin to be blamed for this war? And why President Putin shows solidarity to the rebels? And what is the story of MH17 Malaysian Flight?
For those of you who doesn't know me, I am a Hungarian by birth, but consider myself a Westerner more of a British (Recently, applied for British Citizenship.), as I live in London long time ago and I have no plans to return to Hungary. I study American history, British history and history in general of last century. I am interested in politics of the last few decades back to the early 1920'ies and the First World War.
As a child to be born into a former Communist Country (Hungary was in the Communist block after the WW-II., as a result of it.) I can understand some questions that is maybe difficult for those who lived their entire life in the West.
A bit more about Hungary before I start to detail the situation in Ukraine now. Hungary was in the early 20th Century before the WW-I. a part of a dual empire due to a Royal marriage. Two countries joined their territory and that was the born of the strongest European power at the time the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The territory was the largest in Europe that the Empire ruled. And due to their army and large territory the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the leading power of Europe. However, the First World War changed the picture. We lost the war against the allies included Britain, France, Russia, etc. The Empire was lost even before the WW-I there was a separation between the two countries Austria and Hungary due to a revolution of 1849. Where Hungary wanted to get free from the Austrian Aristocrats. After the revolution were defeated by the pro-Austro-Hungarian troops the Empire started to get weaker and weaker. These signs were obvious for all other countries in Europe.
And they wanted to end the leading position of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to change the map of Europe ultimately. These days were revolutions against the Tsar in Russia and also in other countries the political situation was tense. Germany, Austria and Hungary lost large number of people, and also land after the WW-I. And to understand the reason for the WW-II., we need to go back to the end of the First World War as that was the direct reason of the Second World War.
The winners of the First World War re-draw a map of Europe and cut lands from the defeated countries, but the designers of this new map of Europe did not understand the consequences of their newly drawn boarders. Millions of people ethnically belonging to Germany, Austria, Hungary were displaced to a new country even though they did not move from the home, their home was moved to the other side of the boarder. An example: Imagine that you live in New Mexico today, however your leaders lost a war recently, and your country gets penalised and as a result of it they draw a new map of borders. Unfortunately, now your home town New Mexico is not on the side of the border of the USA but the neighbouring Mexico. So from now, from that day you are no longer a citizen of the USA but you and your family and everybody else in New Mexico are Mexicans. You will be your passport and citizenship revoked and neutralised as a new citizen of Mexico and as a result you have to speak Spanish and no longer English. As English is not used in Mexico. If you don't speak Mexican that is your problem, as no one will speak to you English, and actually it is forbidden from now for you and your family to speak English. And it was so, on and on. You can imagine where did it lead!
The neutral Germans in Poland were hunted down by Polish Authorities and the same happened to Austrians and Hungarians as well in other neighbouring countries.
Why did I bring this up? Because to understand what is happening to Ukraine you need to understand the history of the region. It is not an ancient history, it happened just few years ago, so these things are still living and affecting people all over Europe. In Russia after the fall of USSR they also did a similar map drawings of borders as the former USSR was built from many countries, they had to decide where the boarders will be after the collapsed USSR.
And the same thing happened in Ukraine that happened in Austria, Hungary and Germany after the WW-I. Crimea was a Russian land with Russian people but now it belongs to Ukraine and Donetsk, Donbass and other cities as well became the part of Ukraine. These cities are mostly occupied with Russian native people.
When the fight broke out in Kiev, early this year, it was actually not about Donetsk. It was about to get rid of Yanukovitch and have the right for vote if Ukraine should ask the EU for membership or not. The vote was declined and Yanukovitch decided Ukraine will stay with Russia and work together on their economy with Russia. This made the people angry and started to protest. Then the protest got sabotaged by foreign forces and illegally diverted to something else. Right-Wing Pro-Ukraine Groups emerged and marched on the streets of Kiev and started the violence. But they were not aware of that, that they are not alone in this activity, there were some other players too with more sinister plans.
Those forces started to shoot to the police and the protesters and a bunch of false flag attacks were launched by these men. Ultimately, their actions brought us up to here, today where we are now.
It is a full scale war, tanks, soldiers on the ground fighting over cities. One side is the Military of Ukraine and on the other side is People's Republic of Donetsk and similar local groups, defending themselves against the oppression of Kiev. They are Russians, and they are being under threats by the Government in Kiev. Kiev hates them, because Kiev wants to join the EU, it is for their own reasons which I do not want to go in, but it is a selfish and wrong reason and a very bad decision as we all failed after we joined the EU. I mean we Eastern European countries. And not because of the EU, because of our own politicians stolen all they could! They sold everything, privatised everything. In their understanding privatisation means free robbery. That is what happened everywhere, and after 24 years we are still recovering from this disaster.
The people of Donetsk knows this, they are committed to the old Russian system, as their life did not get better since the fall of USSR in fact it got worse.
So the question is why they are fighting for? It is their nationality, their identity. They are not Ukrainians and they do not want to belong to Ukraine because they are Russians.
However, Kiev do not want to let them go. Money talks.
I hope now you understand a little bit more what is going on in Ukraine now, and why President Putin wants to help these people. Remember how would you feel being tomorrow a Mexican?
Would you want your President Obama to help you?
Here is just one example who is killing the native Russians in Ukraine, on the video below you can see a dead Ukrainian fighter with Nazi Swastika and "SS" tattoo's. What would you do when people like this unfortunate man would come to your door to kill you?
The Pro-Russian separatists, Kiev labelled them as "terrorists" are causing much distress in the streets
For those of you who doesn't know me, I am a Hungarian by birth, but consider myself a Westerner more of a British (Recently, applied for British Citizenship.), as I live in London long time ago and I have no plans to return to Hungary. I study American history, British history and history in general of last century. I am interested in politics of the last few decades back to the early 1920'ies and the First World War.
As a child to be born into a former Communist Country (Hungary was in the Communist block after the WW-II., as a result of it.) I can understand some questions that is maybe difficult for those who lived their entire life in the West.
A bit more about Hungary before I start to detail the situation in Ukraine now. Hungary was in the early 20th Century before the WW-I. a part of a dual empire due to a Royal marriage. Two countries joined their territory and that was the born of the strongest European power at the time the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The territory was the largest in Europe that the Empire ruled. And due to their army and large territory the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the leading power of Europe. However, the First World War changed the picture. We lost the war against the allies included Britain, France, Russia, etc. The Empire was lost even before the WW-I there was a separation between the two countries Austria and Hungary due to a revolution of 1849. Where Hungary wanted to get free from the Austrian Aristocrats. After the revolution were defeated by the pro-Austro-Hungarian troops the Empire started to get weaker and weaker. These signs were obvious for all other countries in Europe.
And they wanted to end the leading position of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to change the map of Europe ultimately. These days were revolutions against the Tsar in Russia and also in other countries the political situation was tense. Germany, Austria and Hungary lost large number of people, and also land after the WW-I. And to understand the reason for the WW-II., we need to go back to the end of the First World War as that was the direct reason of the Second World War.
The winners of the First World War re-draw a map of Europe and cut lands from the defeated countries, but the designers of this new map of Europe did not understand the consequences of their newly drawn boarders. Millions of people ethnically belonging to Germany, Austria, Hungary were displaced to a new country even though they did not move from the home, their home was moved to the other side of the boarder. An example: Imagine that you live in New Mexico today, however your leaders lost a war recently, and your country gets penalised and as a result of it they draw a new map of borders. Unfortunately, now your home town New Mexico is not on the side of the border of the USA but the neighbouring Mexico. So from now, from that day you are no longer a citizen of the USA but you and your family and everybody else in New Mexico are Mexicans. You will be your passport and citizenship revoked and neutralised as a new citizen of Mexico and as a result you have to speak Spanish and no longer English. As English is not used in Mexico. If you don't speak Mexican that is your problem, as no one will speak to you English, and actually it is forbidden from now for you and your family to speak English. And it was so, on and on. You can imagine where did it lead!
The neutral Germans in Poland were hunted down by Polish Authorities and the same happened to Austrians and Hungarians as well in other neighbouring countries.
Why did I bring this up? Because to understand what is happening to Ukraine you need to understand the history of the region. It is not an ancient history, it happened just few years ago, so these things are still living and affecting people all over Europe. In Russia after the fall of USSR they also did a similar map drawings of borders as the former USSR was built from many countries, they had to decide where the boarders will be after the collapsed USSR.
And the same thing happened in Ukraine that happened in Austria, Hungary and Germany after the WW-I. Crimea was a Russian land with Russian people but now it belongs to Ukraine and Donetsk, Donbass and other cities as well became the part of Ukraine. These cities are mostly occupied with Russian native people.
When the fight broke out in Kiev, early this year, it was actually not about Donetsk. It was about to get rid of Yanukovitch and have the right for vote if Ukraine should ask the EU for membership or not. The vote was declined and Yanukovitch decided Ukraine will stay with Russia and work together on their economy with Russia. This made the people angry and started to protest. Then the protest got sabotaged by foreign forces and illegally diverted to something else. Right-Wing Pro-Ukraine Groups emerged and marched on the streets of Kiev and started the violence. But they were not aware of that, that they are not alone in this activity, there were some other players too with more sinister plans.
Those forces started to shoot to the police and the protesters and a bunch of false flag attacks were launched by these men. Ultimately, their actions brought us up to here, today where we are now.
It is a full scale war, tanks, soldiers on the ground fighting over cities. One side is the Military of Ukraine and on the other side is People's Republic of Donetsk and similar local groups, defending themselves against the oppression of Kiev. They are Russians, and they are being under threats by the Government in Kiev. Kiev hates them, because Kiev wants to join the EU, it is for their own reasons which I do not want to go in, but it is a selfish and wrong reason and a very bad decision as we all failed after we joined the EU. I mean we Eastern European countries. And not because of the EU, because of our own politicians stolen all they could! They sold everything, privatised everything. In their understanding privatisation means free robbery. That is what happened everywhere, and after 24 years we are still recovering from this disaster.
The people of Donetsk knows this, they are committed to the old Russian system, as their life did not get better since the fall of USSR in fact it got worse.
So the question is why they are fighting for? It is their nationality, their identity. They are not Ukrainians and they do not want to belong to Ukraine because they are Russians.
However, Kiev do not want to let them go. Money talks.
I hope now you understand a little bit more what is going on in Ukraine now, and why President Putin wants to help these people. Remember how would you feel being tomorrow a Mexican?
Would you want your President Obama to help you?
This is what Kiev did with the Russians defending themselves.
The Story of MH17 Malaysian Flight
It is not complicated to explain what happened and I do not go into long detailed analysis. The Flight was diverted to a war zone deliberately by Kiev. No other flight on this route of MH17 went into this war zone. No other! This was the only one that was asked by flight controllers to change route and fly over an active and dangerous war zone. Nonetheless, Kiev knew that the Pro-Russian freedom fighters had a BUK system. They diverted the plane and one should ask them why?
The Government is Kiev is a group of Right Wing Radicals, Neo-Nazis, Oligarchs and Nationalist "Patriot" Businessmen like the millionaire Poroschenko, who called the people of Donetsk low level citizens, not humans. But again: "Money talks."
So who are the people of Donetsk?
The people of Donetsk are peaceful citizens. They don't want war. They don't want violence but they do not want to become a part of Ukraine, and they don't share the money hungry greedy values of the leaders of Ukraine either. They are undoubtedly different from a westerner but we also have left wingers in the West, is that a problem? We should be all the same? Share all the same ideas and no one should think different? Then we will look like soon as North Korea, so to blame the people of Donetsk for being different and being Russian is wrong, because they are Russians even though they are forced to live within the border of Ukraine, but is that their fault?
Here is just one example who is killing the native Russians in Ukraine, on the video below you can see a dead Ukrainian fighter with Nazi Swastika and "SS" tattoo's. What would you do when people like this unfortunate man would come to your door to kill you?
Just look at the map that shows the Russian speaking population within Ukraine borders:
The war for the people? And this was is not for money, is it?
These are the People of Donetsk and the Russian speaking population in Ukraine, Kiev calls them "terrorist".
The Pro-Russian separatists, Kiev labelled them as "terrorists" are causing much distress in the streets
Donetsk People's Republic in the back of the Ukrainian logo of a Government building
A map to locate Ukraine in geographically location to its neighbours
The question is what would you do, if tomorrow you would wake up in another country? And you would be Mexican? But yesterday you were an American... What would you do then?
As it seems now Petro Poroshenko made a deal with Vladimir Putin about peace and cease-fire between Kiev and Donetsk Peoples Republic, and other Pro-Russian Freedom Fighters.
This is the first good step that Petro made since he is in his office as PM of Ukraine.
Petro is a millionaire and has no idea about politics all he wants is money!
To make more and more money for himself and not for Ukraine.
He is a puppet of the US Government's Central Intelligence Agency.
As soon as NATO steps in to Ukraine and US takes over the country of Ukraine, that is the death of Ukraine. Most people from the middle and lower class will suffer, they will lose their jobs, especially the agricultural sector will be destroyed and ex-changed by imported goods from the EU countries such as Spain, Germany, etc.
This is exactly what had happened in Hungary and now Hungary is the biggest debt ever.
The country is basically bankrupt and more corrupt that ever was... Good luck Ukraine!
As it seems now Petro Poroshenko made a deal with Vladimir Putin about peace and cease-fire between Kiev and Donetsk Peoples Republic, and other Pro-Russian Freedom Fighters.
This is the first good step that Petro made since he is in his office as PM of Ukraine.
Petro is a millionaire and has no idea about politics all he wants is money!
To make more and more money for himself and not for Ukraine.
He is a puppet of the US Government's Central Intelligence Agency.
As soon as NATO steps in to Ukraine and US takes over the country of Ukraine, that is the death of Ukraine. Most people from the middle and lower class will suffer, they will lose their jobs, especially the agricultural sector will be destroyed and ex-changed by imported goods from the EU countries such as Spain, Germany, etc.
This is exactly what had happened in Hungary and now Hungary is the biggest debt ever.
The country is basically bankrupt and more corrupt that ever was... Good luck Ukraine!