Foreign Minister Lavrov gave an interview or wrote something and stated the reason Russia invaded Ukraine was to stop a USA hegamony along with NATO. He accused basically The West of genocide.
I am certain Lavrov is referring to the invasion of Iraq. We know Russia was with us when Osama bin Laden crashed jets occupied by people into New York skyscrapers and the Pentagon. So, as to Iraq. I am confident the World Courts heard from others about the atrocitiess of the USA military in Iraq. Entering that country was not an issue and very little Saddam Hussein tried to counter with his military worked.
In the course of the early war into Iraq, there were casualties on both sides, including civilians. No American ever consented to the deaths of civilians and yet it went on. I was screaming for someone to help when Bush aimed the tanks at Najaf and the Imām 'Alī Mosque. Gratefully, the Grand Ayatollah Sistani was listening and ordered civilians to bravely walk the path of their saviors and the advance of the tanks stopped. They would have slaughtered nearly 1000 or more if they continued.
Anyone in the world that understood the facts could have filed a case with the World Court, yet I remember nothing about any of that. There is a reason I believe and it is because Saddam Hussein, the man that dug mass graves for his people over and over again, was taken out of power. That more than likely ended any doubt and at the same time the American people were disapproving of the invasion into Iraq. It has been seen in history as an illegal war, but, there is always Saddam and his hate crimes to justify that invasion.
In the case of Ukraine, Putin has tried to MODEL his invasion the same as the invasion into Iraq making President Zelensky in the image of Saddam. It is all a lie. Nothing Bush stated about Saddam was a lie. There is proof of the mass graves Saddam dug and the skeletons in them.
President Zelensky is one of the most decent men Ukraine ever put into power. He is amazing in this war he has to face. He loves the people of Ukriane and obviously Putin does not.
Russia never had anything to be afraid of from NATO. Putin was brought on board the G8 to help Russia and not hurt it. Yet, even being a member of the G8, people affiliated with the Russian press and American business became victims to the Putin regime. Do I have to refer to The Magnitsky Act?
The USA is a powerful country and it's very mission is to make the world a good place for Americans and in understanding that mission as a democracy, all the countries the USA considers allies and trading partners are included in that mission. Russia was in the G8 until it invaded Ukraine and stole Crimea with Eastern Ukraine locked in a civil war backed and funded by Russia. There is no way the USA could ever back such an insult to a sovereign country simply trying to self-govern while attempting to remove Russian corruption from it's banking and government structures.
Ukraine was invaded by Russia in an implusive act by a Russian president that may as well be czar. There are more than 10,000 people dead in Mariupol. That is not a war, that is genocide.
Vladimir Putin hates Ukrainians so deeply he is sacrificing his youngest soldiers on a battlefield that is contested in it's manifestation. There is a lot wrong here. This invasion into Ukraine is nothing like the USA has done or PAID REPARATIONS to fix what was destroyed. The USA worked 20 years, an entire generation, in Afghanistan only to have extremists backed by Pakistan take over, destroy everything the USA built and oppress the people once again. That is hardly genocide by the USA. It might be by the Taliban, but, not The West.
April 12, 2022
Kyiv, Ukraine - The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol (click here) said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, as weeks of attacks and privation leave the bodies of Mariupol’s people “carpeted through the streets.”
Speaking by phone Monday with The Associated Press, Mayor Vadym Boychenko also accused Russian forces of having blocked weeks of thwarted humanitarian convoys into the city in an attempt to conceal the carnage there from the outside world.
Mariupol has been cut off by Russian attacks that began soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in late February, and has suffered some of the most brutal assaults of the war. Boychenko gave new details of recent allegations by Ukrainian officials that Russian forces have brought mobile cremation equipment to Mariupol to dispose of the corpses of victims of the siege....
It is about time! Putin has publicly pledged to continue the invasion into Ukraine until all his directives are met.
12 April 2022By David Averre
Ukrainian prosecutors(click here) are expanding their war crimes investigations into the northeastern suburbs of Kyiv after Russian forces withdrew.
Investigations into civilian massacres carried out by Russian troops have primarily focused so far on the northwestern suburbs such as Bucha, Makariv and Borodyanka, but the Prosecutor-General's Office said Tuesday it was also looking into events in the Brovary district, which lies to the northeast.
