I think these are the Ukrainian people responsible for the horror of Ukraine today. These are they who fomented the revolution in 2014 and drove Yanukovitch out and abrogated the Minsk accords: made them anathema to the Ukrainian govt.
Doubtless financed and directed by the CIA.
The idea seems to hold water. Zelenski was by all acounts overwhelmingly elected on a mandate to make peace which he’s clearly totally failed to do. And now he’s a rabid dog foaming at the mouth and willing to destroy his whole nation and everyone in it in order to ‘beat the Russians’.
Why? It has been suggested it’s because the Azov battalions told him to change his tune or else.
Just like it is said that they told Yanukovitch he better get out or he’d get topped. So he got out.
This mob, the ‘power behind the throne’:
25 Jun, 2022 15:22 HomeRussia & FSU
Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has built a 'state within a state,' and it despises both Russia and the liberal West
Do you look to RT for an unbiased assessment of Russia's war with Ukraine? C'mon! Russia has its favorite bogeymen: Stepan Bandera, Azov. You must read the other side on these.
You asked why Ukraine fights. Here is Sir Arthur Keith answering why Finland fought Russia in 1939. Same situation.
To see a modern people in the throes of evolution, let us go to Finland in the critical spring of 1940. Listen to the leader of the trade unionists as he described the situation:2
"The Finnish people cannot be said to have agreed among themselves in peace time. But the moment a real danger threatened us like a thunder cloud, a mighty wind swept over our nation, erasing even the most deep seated differences of opinion and directed the gaze of every citizen to the one all important matter namely, the defense of our liberty and independence and the protection of our women and children.... We shall continue the struggle so long as there is a single man left who is capable of wielding a weapon."
Let us see if we can obtain a reasonable explanation of the state of mind which had been roused in the people of Finland by certain demands made on their country by powerful Russia. At first there was no threat against the corporate life of the Finns; they were requested to surrender certain strong points which were coveted by Russia for defensive purposes. Now, suppose the ultimate purpose of human existence had been such as we have passed in review the development of personality, the provision of greatest happiness to the greatest number, the growth of the soul, glorification of the Creator, security, peace, prosperity; then the Finns ought gratefully to have accepted the demands of Russia. Could not all of these objectives in life have been developed more freely and fully under the protection of Russia than under the weaker power of the smaller state? We receive no explanation from the accepted theories of life. But if we turn to the theory that I have put forward namely, that human nature has been fashioned to advance the cause of evolution then we obtain a ready and sufficient explanation. An evolutionary unit, be it a community, tribe, or a nation, must, to fulfill its destiny, maintain not only its organization and its continuity, but also its independence its right to work out its own destiny. If a nation loses its independence, then it has no longer the power to develop its separate destiny or to pursue the policy of self determination. Thus I regard the spirit of independence
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which we have seen roused in the hearts of the Finnish people as a fundamental part of the machinery of human evolution.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked. It is not so clearly recognized that a threat to the life or to the independence of a tribe or of a nation calls forth a mass reaction still more powerful and passionate. How strong that reaction can be is seen in the case of Finland. A warlike spirit flamed up; life, individual liberty, ease, and wealth were sacrificed in the passionate hope that the nation might be free to pursue its way to a self appointed destiny. In such reactions the civilized mind sees only a mass hysteria, a form of madness. The rationalist, on the other hand, who has more extended acquaintance with the ways of Nature, will see in the warlike spirit which rises in a nation when its independence is threatened, not a manifestation of madness, but a demonstration of the stern measures used by Nature to carry out her evolutionary purpose. If madness it be, then there is only one cure to bring to an end the methods pursued hitherto by Nature for human advancement. Civilization and Nature are at war.
I have cited the case of Finland to illustrate my evolutionary explanation of "Independence." Many other recent instances are at my disposal, but I shall use only a few of them. There is the case of Yugoslavia. On the morning of March 27, 1941, Mr. Winston Churchill broadcast this announcement: "Early this morning the Yugoslav nation found its soul. . . . Yesterday its freedom and honour were signed away." All the world knows the price in blood and treasure Yugoslavia has paid and is paying for finding her "soul;" yet all the free peoples of the world thrilled approval when she resolved to fight rather than submit to aggressive Germany. Submission would have brought on her the contempt of even the aggressor powers. No spectacle evokes the applause of the world so much as a little nation fighting against overwhelming odds for its right to guide its own destiny. Does not this go to prove how deeply seated the "soul of independence" is in human nature?