A Proposal for a Settlement to the Ukrainian War: Remember the Holodomor

My attention and concern for the Ukraine war normally arise. My mother was born in Ukraine, and I still think about the horrifying experience of being chased by a crew of White Russians and Ukrainian paramilitaries while fleeing from her town with her mother and brother in the middle of a storm at night. &nbsp,

My father was born in the Soviet region (administrative section ) of Georgia near the border of South Ossetia, Stalin’s house place, and was the spitting image of the Russian dictator— small, muscular, with a heavy mustache, a tendency to violence, and, like Stalin, played the piano. He kept an enemies record and sometimes acted on it, having received the governor of Montreal as part of his give. In some feeling, a local version of the Russia-Ukraine fight occurred in my own house. &nbsp,

Of course, the social narrative of the past ten or but is much more complex and significant. To aid in making partly based conclusions, genuine scholars and social researchers may introduce historical facts and complex concepts dating back centuries. Washington has meddled in the social affairs of dozens of nations, including many governments, as the Cato Institute explains with regard to the present time. During the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution, which started on November 21, 2013, an egregious case of the country’s elected state was exposed. As Ukraine‘s political crisis deepened, the extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine‘s politics was breathtaking” .&nbsp,

Victoria Nuland, the secretary of state for political affairs at the time, referred to as” the Ukrainians” as” the Ukrainions” as if she were watching a Star Trek episode in a notorious telephone conversation with Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, where they discussed their preferences for specific personnel changes in the post-Yanukovych government. &nbsp,

” It is no question that Russia reacted hard to the illegal resignation of an elected, pro-Russian government—an impeachment that occurred not only with Washington’s gift but evidently with its help. One is genuinely criticize some aspects of Moscow’s conduct”, concludes the Institute’s evaluation,” but the power of America’s moral indignation is vitiated by the odor of U. S. hypocrisy”.

There are a number of important issues that we have to address right away as negotiations begin in the current situation. Zelenskyy has always been a fraud, a two-bit vaudevillian in defense garb, who was the victim of the earlier Democrat-sponsored revolution led by Obama and Nuland and promoted by an extremely crooked Biden. Zelensky is never a serious artist, despite the admiration with which the Left treats him. Big on bravado, he has little liquidity. &nbsp,

Putin may be a bloody-minded dictator, but he seems determined to be on a quest to restore the grandeur and respect for his nation. In” The Kremlin Strikes Back,” Steven Rosefielde gives a graded and sensible account of the Russian analysis, which is determined to secure its borders and recover portions of missing territory that it believes will remain essentially Russian. These are the social equation’s needs that need to be addressed. &nbsp,

Putin had previously provided sufficient pretext to say that he would not support the NATO alliance, which would have allowed an aggressively bold Europe to exist within Russia’s sphere of influence and loomed over the country’s borders. We are reminded of the promise made by Obama and Biden to Ukraine to eventually join NATO, a political failure of enormous proportions. &nbsp,

In a wide-ranging meeting in The New Yorker, University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that” There is a three-prong approach at play these, E. U. development, NATO enlargement, and turning Ukraine into a pro-American progressive democracy”. Russian concern of American power prediction on its close borders is, for Mearsheimer, the important issue. Trump completely comprehends this, claiming categorically that Zelensky’s desire to join NATO and that the European encroachment was a triggering casus bellum.

Whether or not, Putin has complete control over a sizable portion of the country and is firmly established in his own arbitration system. Only his presumptive desire, his admiration for Trump, and his deep understanding of Russian history can cause a resolution. This brings us to the atrocity of the 1932/33 Great Famine, or Holodomor ( from the Ukrainian holod, hunger, and mor, extermination ), a deliberately engineered, mass slaughter to confiscate private property, commandeer food stocks, and annihilate vast swaths of the population in order to collectivize the agricultural production of the region. The death toll is estimated at between 5-7 million. Putin may find it easier to soften his negotiating stance due to the Russian sense of guilt for the Holodomor, a continuing embarrassment tarnished by the real implication of genocide. &nbsp,

This causes a headache for Russia, according to Jonathan Bowden in” The Cultured Thug,” which foretold that the Soviet Union had not acknowledged the existence of the famine until 1990 when the Soviet Union was overthrown. In fact, Dmitry Medvedev was the first Russian leader to attend the Holodomor Victims Memorial in Kyiv as a gesture of moderate atonement. In other words, the Holodomor was seen by the Russian exculpatory view as something different from the soul of the Russian nation rather than as an essentially Russian crime. It is a convenient exemption. Nevertheless, writes Bowden, the Holodomor “remains a sort of albatross around the Greater Russian neck”.

Even Robert Conquest, whose” The Harvest of Sorrow” is the definitive exploration of the Great Famine, is nuanced in his condemnations, stating in a 2006&nbsp, interview,” I think there are guilty people, but they aren’t the Russian nation or anybody else. They are a particular group of “particularly horrible people,” associated with the Communist Party, and led by Josef Stalin, one of the most evil people in modern history. Conquest does not view him” as a contemporary man, a terrestrial man, or an Earth man.” He sounds like a creature from a strange planet. The current attitude toward Stalin in Russia is apparently ambivalent, but it is telling that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s” The Gulag Archipelago” is readily available in the country.

I think the Holodomor is one of Donald Trump and his team’s most important bargaining chips in the ongoing negotiations to put an end to the war. Nobody can question Putin’s love and pride for his country, his scholarly and authoritative knowledge of the history of Russia from the beginning to the present, as Tucker Carlson’s interview with the leader demonstrated, and his restoration of the Orthodox Church’s original national prominence. Putin is not at ease with Taras Kuzio’s recent publication” Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War,” but it acknowledges that Russia’s historical and cultural essence affirms its position as a special and distinctive community that needs to be strengthened. &nbsp,

Scott Pinsker at PJ Media alleges that” Putin is not a mindless zealot or a warmongering ideologue, he’s an immoral, Machiavellian, pro-Russian pragmatist. That might not make him a good person, but it certainly does make someone we can negotiate with. I believe that while acknowledging the realpolitik of battlefield gains, which he will undoubtedly try to advance prior to a freeze in hostilities, he may also have a sincere conviction in the spirit of his country and people. &nbsp,

It is, in my estimation, an issue that should be tactfully raised, a way of putting the atrocities of the past to rest in a cessation of further bloodshed. The Ukrainian leadership will have to accept territorial losses and the terms of the armistice. This is no time for corncobbing, for the truth is that the Ukrainian people have endured enough of the consequences of U. S. misconceptions, European misjudgment, NATO expansionism, internal grift, and Russian ferocity. &nbsp,

There is no point in trying to make sense of a complicated tangle of causes or complicated ambiguities. It is, rather, important to remind Putin of Medvedev’s redemptive gambit. A resolution to the conflict would be in everyone’s interests, but it is also, given a cruel and sanguinary history, a Russian obligation. It is time to exorcise the past’s skeptics and put an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. &nbsp,

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