[Peace-discuss] An exchange

[Boyle, Francis A]

  *   Mort et al: It was only 460 Kilometers from the US/NATO/Ukrainian-Nazis in Donbass to Stalingrad, which I have toured. The Sheer Genocidal Savagery of the Nazis there took my breath away. Fab.
  *   Stalingrad
  *   We got off the boat at the docks
  *   Walking into town I was asked
  *   Could I lay some flowers
  *   At the War Memorial
  *   On the Banks of the Volga?
  *
  *   Of course I said yes.
  *   Honored and pleased
  *   My Dad had fought the Japanese
  *   At Saipan, and  Tinian and Okinawa
  *
  *   The Nazis were not his war
  *   But We were All  Allies Together
  *   In the Noble Cause to Defeat Fascism
  *
  *   As I neared the Statue
  *   On the Banks of the Volga
  *   A young Komsomol Girl appeared
  *   All dressed in white
  *   carrying a wreath of roses
  *
  *   A band was playing
  *   Joyful, not somber, but subdued
  *   The Town Elders assembled
  *
  *   The sun was shining
  *   a most beautiful day
  *   On the Banks of the Volga
  *
  *   I lay  my   wreath of roses
  *   To the Defenders and Victims at Stalingrad
  *   And bowed my head in silent reflection
  *
  *   If the Soviets had not held at Stalingrad
  *   All Europe today would be speaking German
  *   And saluting: Heil Hitler!
  *
  *   Deutschland, Deutschland
  *   But not Uber Alles
  *   My Dad was smiling
  *   On the Banks of the Volga
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Francis A. Boyle
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Champaign IL 61820 USA
Phone: 217-333-7954
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From: Boyle, Francis A
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Cc: Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at gmail.com>; Levy, Stuart A <salevy at illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] An exchange

Good one! fab

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
Phone: 217-333-7954
Fax: 217-244-1478
(personal comments only)


From: karen aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] An exchange

Please see Morton Brussel’s excellent letter recently submitted to the NG.

"It is disheartening to listen to the chorus of condemnation against Russia. There is no empathy or understanding for the Russian fear of encirclement by weaponized NATO countries. There is no recognition that Russia offered proposals to defuse the situation, proposals derided by the Biden administration. Not only were the proposals basically ignored, but military actions were carried out by a nazified Ukraine military, especially in the Donbas, causing thousands of casualties. Russians no doubt remember how these same Nazi elements incinerated peaceful opponents in Odessa after the coup of Maidan, and feared it would be repeated in eastern Russian-speaking Ukraine. As a result, Russia felt forced to dramatize its serious concerns; hence the current incursion into Ukraine.

Preferable actions to create a stir in western and US citizenry would have been clearly evident Russian military forces off the US  east coast, or even weaponry shipped to Cuba, however dangerous. As it is, we have an inert and ignorant American citizenry, lulled and distracted by an all encompassing propaganda matrix. One might have thought that the NATO nations would have considered that their cities could be engulfed in any larger European conflict. Their total condemnation of the Russian attack on Ukraine seems to belie such considerations.
The sanctions and continued shipping of armaments to Ukraine by NATO countries will likely cause greater conflict. A dire situation, illustrating the turpitude, hypocrisy, and corruption of American government policy-makers and their NATO clients."
—mkb
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