1) Russia's 'side'? Nonsense. I am not pro Russia. I am anti US empire and recognize (after decades of research on the US empire and how it operates) that Russia intervened in the Ukraine war to stop dangerous US imperial expansion. That is what the essay explains. It does not in any way lionize Russia or present Russia's 'side'.
2) Illegal?
a] Not correct. Under the Self Defense provisions of Article 51 of the UN Charter Russia had the right to defend its allies in Donbas in order to also defend its own border from West Ukraine's threat to its security. (Note: Ukraine ceased to be a legitimate state when the US backed coup in 2014 overthrew its democratically elected government.)
b] Under the convention on the Prevention of Genocide, Russia had not only the right, but the responsibility, to intervene after Kiev committed genocidal acts against ethnic Russians in East and South Ukraine.
3) Bullshit. Even if we were to decide Russia did not have sufficient legal basis for intervening, it can be very easily argued that Russia had no choice. It had to intervene both to protect itself, and to halt our extremely dangerous 21st century situation in which a dying US empire is lashing out to make war all over the world to retain its imperial dominance. If Russia were to fall, China and Iran could soon follow, and at that point there would be no stopping the US from imposing a fascist totalitarian dictatorship over the entire planet.
1) Russia's 'side'? Nonsense. I am not pro Russia. I am anti US empire and recognize (after decades of research on the US empire and how it operates) that Russia intervened in the Ukraine war to stop dangerous US imperial expansion. That is what the essay explains. It does not in any way lionize Russia or present Russia's 'side'.
2) Illegal?
a] Not correct. Under the Self Defense provisions of Article 51 of the UN Charter Russia had the right to defend its allies in Donbas in order to also defend its own border from West Ukraine's threat to its security. (Note: Ukraine ceased to be a legitimate state when the US backed coup in 2014 overthrew its democratically elected government.)
b] Under the convention on the Prevention of Genocide, Russia had not only the right, but the responsibility, to intervene after Kiev committed genocidal acts against ethnic Russians in East and South Ukraine.
3) Bullshit. Even if we were to decide Russia did not have sufficient legal basis for intervening, it can be very easily argued that Russia had no choice. It had to intervene both to protect itself, and to halt our extremely dangerous 21st century situation in which a dying US empire is lashing out to make war all over the world to retain its imperial dominance. If Russia were to fall, China and Iran could soon follow, and at that point there would be no stopping the US from imposing a fascist totalitarian dictatorship over the entire planet.