controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
What do Ukrainians say about this WAR
The Ukrainians are destroying themselves, without the involvement of the Russians. For several weeks now, everyone has been talking about the war in Ukraine between the Russians and the Ukrainians. Admittedly, everyone blames Russia as the biggest killer in existence, but no one knows exactly what's going on there.
By Maria Ostasevici 5 years ago in The Swamp
The World War 3 Facts You Never Knew and You are at the Forefront of it
For the last few years, the idea of World War 3 has seemed like a far-fetched fantasy for conspiracy theorists and Hollywood screenwriters. However, in recent months and weeks, that idea has become all too real for the people of Ukraine. Russian forces have invaded, and the world is watching as Ukraine falls apart. If you're like most people, you probably don't know much about the Ukrainian conflict. We'll be giving you all the facts in this article.
By Subeesh Narayanan V5 years ago in The Swamp
Democratic Values And Freedom At Stake In Ukraine
Like millions of other residents of this planet called Earth, I have been horrified watching the unprovoked and bloody terror unleashed on the country of Ukraine this week by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s military forces.
By Sweety Roy5 years ago in The Swamp
Why Sanctions on Russia Matter
Vladimir Putin is a delusional, narcissistic psychopath. Having power is a kind of degenerative disease: the longer you have it, the more it rots your mind and disconnects you from the lived experience of ordinary people. Putin has been the President or Prime Minister of Russia since 1999.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in The Swamp
Vladimir Putin’s Imperialism and Military Goals Against Ukraine
The unbelievable has happened. The world is faced with a crisis on the magnitude of that which it faced in 1961 in Cuba. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely to become the biggest war in Europe since World War II. The destruction of Ukraine’s democracy through a Russian invasion and installation of a pro-Kremlin puppet regime, would energise the anti-democratic onslaught of autocrats, such as China and Iran, around the world and send a signal that the democratic West is in decline.
By Mohsin Dewan5 years ago in The Swamp
Undocumented Migrants
It only takes a few issues for an individual to start the radicalization process and turn down the path of terrorism. These may be extreme cases of seeing one’s family murdered in their homes by Soldiers or just feeling like they are not being heard. Moghaddam’s staircase to terrorism states that individuals on the first staircase feel disgruntled and seek solutions, while individuals on the second staircase begin to feel they have had grave injustices (Moghaddam, 2005).
By The Clarkbar845 years ago in The Swamp
Putin’s Ukraine invasion emulated many key features of erstwhile Soviet state
In the late 1980s, as then Washington Post reporter David Remnick travelled around the USSR, he found that opinions varied on when and where the old regime died. Uzbeks in Tashkent and Samarkand told him that the exposure in 1988 and 1989 of the haphazard manner in which Moscow had turned all of Central Asia into a vast cotton plantation — “in the process destroying the Aral Sea and nearly every other area of the economy” — was the turning point. In the Baltic states, Remnick says the official “discovery” of the secret protocols to the Nazi-Soviet pact was the key moment. But, as he writes in Lenin’s Tomb, it was in Ukraine that he found the most “unifying event, the absolute metaphor for the explosion of the last empire on earth.” On a trip to the western Ukrainian city of Lvov in 1989, he met with small groups of nationalists who promised that “one day” their republic of over 50 million people, the biggest after Russia, would strike out for independence (that came two years later in August, 1991). Quoting from history, they told Remnick, “’For us’, Lenin once wrote, ‘to lose the Ukraine would be to lose our head’.” In his speech on February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin, justifying his military action in Ukraine, blamed Soviet leaders, especially Lenin, for the disintegration of “historical Russia”.
By Abhi Saini5 years ago in The Swamp
The Ukraine conflict exposes the US's power constraints
Ukraine's sovereignty and international law have been breached by Russia. The US response has been economic: the United States has imposed the strongest sanctions against Russia in history, but they are unlikely to change the form of Russian President Vladimir Putin's hostility.
By Anirban Bose5 years ago in The Swamp
REASONS WHY RUSSIA INVADE UKRAINE
In this article, we'll try and understand the ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict. See the first thing that you have to understand is that the tension between Russia and Ukraine is primarily because of two reasons. One Ukraine is a matter of strategic importance to Russia. Look at the size of Ukraine. It is a big country that is right in between the European Union and Russia. So this is very straightforward and I will tell you more about it in a while. And the second reason is there is also a territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine. As you may know, currently Russia is in control of Crimea and then there are two region on eastern Ukraine which is called Don Isx and Luhansk. So these together combine to form Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. So Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union after 1991. Ukraine became a separate country and declared itself an independent country on 24th August 1991. As you can see, this map Ukraine shares borders with both the European Union and Russia. But as a former Soviet Republic it has a deep social and cultural ties with Russia and Russian language is widely spoken there, especially on the eastern side of Ukraine. Now if you look at the eastern Ukrainian regions which are bordered with Russia, it has more Russian speaking people and that is very natural, right? If you go near the border areas of any country or state you will see that people from both sides of the border exist. Here also you will find both Ukrainian as well as Russian people. But then as we know Ukraine was part of Soviet Union. Naturally after Ukrainian ethnicity, Russian ethnic group is the largest and Needless to say there will be more Russian speaking people on the eastern regions of Ukraine. Now with that one more thing that is very common at body areas is that there will be groups who are both political as well as armed, who will have their own regional interests. That means there are political as well as armed groups in eastern Ukraine who are pro Russian. Naturally, when politics is involved, definitely Russia will have its own interests secured.
By Dwayne nembhard5 years ago in The Swamp
