I don't know, Charles, Kovalik justifying the Russian invasion into Ukrainian territory because Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens of Donbass are being threatened, or that the Russian border is threatened by Ukrainians on their border, or because Ukraine is "threatening" to reclaim the Ukrainian territory of Crimea which was forcefully taken over by Russia, sounds like the same justification the US made for their many repeated, illegal invasions of Latin American countries such as Nicaragua, Cuba, Grenada, that their (US) business interests or US citizens were in danger and needed to be rescued.
Ryan, thanks for reading and commenting. The facts as understood by Kovalik, based on reading of earlier accounts by the Western press, are that thousands of Russian citizens had been killed by the Ukrainian government and its affiliated militias from 2014 to 2022. The USA could make no comparable claim with respect to the Latin American countries that it has invaded.
It is true that the three countries you mention were a threat to U.S. interests (two still are), and they are located in the U.S. “backyard.” However, the three countries maintained that they constituted was a legitimate economic threat, occurring as a consequence of the exercise of their sovereignty; and not intended to preclude mutually beneficial trade with the USA. The right of nations to sovereign control of their economies and natural resources is affirmed by the U.N. Charter and by the UN document on a New International Economic Order, approved by the General Assembly in 1974. In the Third World, the right of formerly colonized nations to exercise their sovereignty in the face of contrasting imperialist claims is widely accepted.
So Charles, how do you explain this? Is he just a stooge full of Western propaganda? Doesn't seem likely. https://www.axios.com/2022/05/23/russian-diplomat-united-nations-resigns-ukraine
I don't know, Charles, Kovalik justifying the Russian invasion into Ukrainian territory because Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens of Donbass are being threatened, or that the Russian border is threatened by Ukrainians on their border, or because Ukraine is "threatening" to reclaim the Ukrainian territory of Crimea which was forcefully taken over by Russia, sounds like the same justification the US made for their many repeated, illegal invasions of Latin American countries such as Nicaragua, Cuba, Grenada, that their (US) business interests or US citizens were in danger and needed to be rescued.
Ryan, thanks for reading and commenting. The facts as understood by Kovalik, based on reading of earlier accounts by the Western press, are that thousands of Russian citizens had been killed by the Ukrainian government and its affiliated militias from 2014 to 2022. The USA could make no comparable claim with respect to the Latin American countries that it has invaded.
It is true that the three countries you mention were a threat to U.S. interests (two still are), and they are located in the U.S. “backyard.” However, the three countries maintained that they constituted was a legitimate economic threat, occurring as a consequence of the exercise of their sovereignty; and not intended to preclude mutually beneficial trade with the USA. The right of nations to sovereign control of their economies and natural resources is affirmed by the U.N. Charter and by the UN document on a New International Economic Order, approved by the General Assembly in 1974. In the Third World, the right of formerly colonized nations to exercise their sovereignty in the face of contrasting imperialist claims is widely accepted.