A residential high-rise in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv in flames after Russian shelling, March 15, 2022 (Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
A residential high-rise in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv in flames after Russian shelling, March 15, 2022 (Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
Background of the Current Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Yeghia Tashjian is the Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and International Affairs-American University of Beirut’s Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from the American University of Beirut and completed the "Strategic Leadership in Global Societal Security Program" at the Swedish Defense University in 2022. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Haigazian University in 2013 and has worked in the university's Armenian Diaspora Research Center between 2016-2017. Yeghia's master’s thesis focused on China's geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. Currently, Tashjian is engaged in research on the phenomenon of Turkish-Russian 'co-opetition' in the MENA+ Caucasus region and Russia's involvement in the International North-South Transport Corridor. He contributes to various local and regional newspapers, has presented various topics from minority rights to regional security issues, and is a part-time instructor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.
Backing the incompetent Yeltsin in the ’90s certainly set the stage for Putin.
All wars are tragic, but some are justified. Despite what CNN says, history will be on the side of Russia.
What would Uncle Sam do if Texas tried break free from the United States and made a military alliance with Russia? What would Uncle Sam do if China was to deploy troops and missiles in Mexico? What would Uncle Sam do if Russians were to deploy troops or missiles in Venezuela? What did Uncle Sam do in Cuba, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Yemen, Libya and Syria?
This war was a direct result of expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of placing missile systems near Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of fomenting anti-Russian Color Revolutions throughout former soviet space. Ukraine has been a hotbed of anti-Russian activity. The separatist Russian populated region of Donbas was bombed for 8 years before Russians stepped in. This war was also a consequence of Western powers and their allies invading Iraq on false pretexts. This war was a consequence of Western powers and their allies mercilessly bombing Serbia, again based on false pretexts, and giving a major piece of it (i.e. Kosovo) to Albanian Muslims. This war was also a consequence of Western powers destroying Syria, Yemen and Libya via Western-back Islamic terror groups.
Western powers and their allies are responsible for a number of illegal invasions and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people since 1991. Western powers and their allies are also responsible for a number of bloody “regime changes” and “color revolutions” around the world, including Armenia in 2018, which led to the loss of Artsakh.
It’s about time someone stood up and said – no more! Once again, that someone is the great Russian nation.
I did not see the “civilized world” protesting when Artsakh was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Serbia was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Iraq was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Syria was attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Libya was attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Yemen was attacked.
Therefore, the “civilized world” with all its toxic organizations and institutions, along with their Ukrainian friends can go to hell.
This war will end with Ukraine total capitulation sooner than later. Despite what Western MSM is trying to tell us, President Putin’s war effort in Ukraine has been brilliant. Despite the fact that Ukraine is one of the largest countries in the world and has a well armed and well trained military, around 30% of Ukraine is now in Russian hands. Despite what Western MSM is trying to tell us, all measures are being taken by the Russian military to lessen civilian casualties. Russians have even kept the lights on throughout the country. This restraint by the Russians is causing delays as well as Russian casualties.
For their part, Western officials and journalists have been encouraging and inciting Ukrainian civilians to fight the Russian army to the death. That is why war criminals in the West are encouraging Ukrainians to fight to the death. That is why war criminals in the West are telling Ukrainians that they are winning. In other words, Westerners are doing their best to get Ukrainians massacred for a good “photo op”.
And Zelensky is their Grim Reaper in this regard. Ukraine’s deserves it’s “friends”. No tears for Ukraine from me. Let’s Russia do what it needs to do to that pro-Tatar and pro-Azeri hotbed of Western, Turkish and Israeli activity.
This war will be over sooner-than-later with a historic Russian victory. Russia will become the premier breadbasket of the world after reclaiming territories it lost to the Bolsheviks. Russia will remain the world’s largest producer and exporter of precious and rare metals, rare earths, gas and oil. Russian heavy industry will remain in the world’s top ten. Russia’s armed forces will remain the world’s finest. Russian society, which is not a stranger to adversity and knows how to tighten its belt, will inevitably recover from the “sanctions”. Ukraine however will cease to exist. As for Ukraine’s friends, the power and influence of Western powers will fall even further because no self-respecting nation will trust their money/assets in the West any longer, after witnessing their hysteric overreaction to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.
A new world was born on February 24, 2022. Western nations, along with their colonies around the world, will inevitably drown in their liberal/democratic excrement.
Backing the incompetent Yeltsin in the ’90s certainly set the stage for Putin.
All wars are tragic, but some are justified. Despite what CNN says, history will be on the side of Russia.
What would Uncle Sam do if Texas tried break free from the United States and made a military alliance with Russia? What would Uncle Sam do if China was to deploy troops and missiles in Mexico? What would Uncle Sam do if Russians were to deploy troops or missiles in Venezuela? What did Uncle Sam do in Cuba, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Yemen, Libya and Syria?
This war was a direct result of expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of placing missile systems near Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of fomenting anti-Russian Color Revolutions throughout former soviet space. Ukraine has been a hotbed of anti-Russian activity. The separatist Russian populated region of Donbas was bombed for 8 years before Russians stepped in. This war was also a consequence of Western powers and their allies invading Iraq on false pretexts. This war was a consequence of Western powers and their allies mercilessly bombing Serbia, again based on false pretexts, and giving a major piece of it (i.e. Kosovo) to Albanian Muslims. This war was also a consequence of Western powers destroying Syria, Yemen and Libya via Western-back Islamic terror groups.
Western powers and their allies are responsible for a number of illegal invasions and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people since 1991. Western powers and their allies are also responsible for a number of bloody “regime changes” and “color revolutions” around the world, including Armenia in 2018, which led to the loss of Artsakh.
It’s about time someone stood up and said – no more! Once again, that someone is the great Russian nation.
I did not see the “civilized world” protesting when Artsakh was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Serbia was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Iraq was mercilessly attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Syria was attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Libya was attacked. I did not see them protesting in this manner when Yemen was attacked.
Therefore, the “civilized world” with all its toxic organizations and institutions, along with their Ukrainian friends can go to hell.
This war will end with Ukraine total capitulation sooner than later. Despite what Western MSM is trying to tell us, President Putin’s war effort in Ukraine has been brilliant. Despite the fact that Ukraine is one of the largest countries in the world and has a well armed and well trained military, around 30% of Ukraine is now in Russian hands. Despite what Western MSM is trying to tell us, all measures are being taken by the Russian military to lessen civilian casualties. Russians have even kept the lights on throughout the country. This restraint by the Russians is causing delays as well as Russian casualties.
For their part, Western officials and journalists have been encouraging and inciting Ukrainian civilians to fight the Russian army to the death. That is why war criminals in the West are encouraging Ukrainians to fight to the death. That is why war criminals in the West are telling Ukrainians that they are winning. In other words, Westerners are doing their best to get Ukrainians massacred for a good “photo op”.
And Zelensky is their Grim Reaper in this regard. Ukraine’s deserves it’s “friends”. No tears for Ukraine from me. Let’s Russia do what it needs to do to that pro-Tatar and pro-Azeri hotbed of Western, Turkish and Israeli activity.
This war will be over sooner-than-later with a historic Russian victory. Russia will become the premier breadbasket of the world after reclaiming territories it lost to the Bolsheviks. Russia will remain the world’s largest producer and exporter of precious and rare metals, rare earths, gas and oil. Russian heavy industry will remain in the world’s top ten. Russia’s armed forces will remain the world’s finest. Russian society, which is not a stranger to adversity and knows how to tighten its belt, will inevitably recover from the “sanctions”. Ukraine however will cease to exist. As for Ukraine’s friends, the power and influence of Western powers will fall even further because no self-respecting nation will trust their money/assets in the West any longer, after witnessing their hysteric overreaction to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.
A new world was born on February 24, 2022. Western nations, along with their colonies around the world, will inevitably drown in their liberal/democratic excrement.