Russia keeps instigating wars

Bulgarian politician Alexander Yordanov in Tribune, Aug. 19:

"Russia is a traditional warmonger

The current American president... is 79 years old, which implies wisdom. But without knowledge of the facts, wisdom is like a mirage in a desert. And the worrying thing is that there is not a single associate on his team who can explain this to him. In a number of his public appearances, President Trump has proven that he does not know the facts. That is why he is wrong in his assessments of events and personalities. Such was his latest performance, when he blurted out, neither in a whisper nor in a sleeve: "Zelensky should not have started the war." This was an absolute lie. Because it is a fact that neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian president started a war. The war that Donald Trump is thinking about was started against Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2014, and in February 2022, the aggressors launched a full-scale intervention. This war continues to this day. Russia is attacking, and Ukraine is defending itself. Is President Trump really unaware of this fact, or should we assume he is playing catch-up?

 

The facts speak eloquently that Russia is a traditional warmonger. And it would be strange if Donald Trump really didn’t know this. What facts specifically does the American president not know? I will skip those related to the wars that the Russian Empire started and waged in the 19th century and will limit myself only to the wars that Bolshevik Russia, the USSR and the Russian Federation started and waged in the 20th and 21st centuries. So: 

 

1. In 1919, Soviet Russia attacked the Ukrainian People’s Republic...  

 

2. In February 1919, Soviet Russia attacked Poland. But in August 1920, the Poles defeated the Soviet Bolsheviks in the Battle of Warsaw. 

 

3. In 1920, Soviet Russia also attacked Azerbaijan. 

 

 4. In 1921, Soviet Russia also invaded Georgia. 

 

5. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union, an ally of Nazi Germany, attacked Poland.

 

6. On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland... 

 

7. In 1940, the Soviet army occupied the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The occupation lasted half a century. 

 

8. In 1956, the Soviet army invaded Hungary. 

 

9. In 1968, the Soviet army also invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the dreams of Czechs and Poles for "socialism with a human face." The Russians had decided then that socialism should only have a beastly face. 

 

10. In 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan. 

 

11. In 1992, Russia launched a military intervention against Georgia. 

 

12. In 1992, Russian troops occupied Transnistria, part of the Republic of Moldova. 

 

13. In 1994, the Russian army invaded Chechnya.

 

14. In 1999, a new Russian military invasion of Chechnya followed. 

 

15. In 2008, the Russian army invaded Georgia. 

 

16. In 2014, Russia carried out military aggression against Ukraine and occupied the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. 

 

17. In 2015, the Russian army invaded Syria. 

 

18. At dawn on February 24, 2022, the Russian army launched a large-scale military aggression against Ukraine. According to the Kremlin, this was to be a Blitzkrieg, i.e. Lightning War or Special Operation, as the Russian president initially announced it.

 

These are the facts. And the question is, which war did Ukraine start, so that it now has to stop it? I don't want to think the worst. Because it is "peace at any cost". Rather, it is time for Russia to pay for at least one of the wars it criminally waged in the 20th and 21st centuries. And since the past cannot be changed, there remains hope that we can change the present. In the specific case of Russia's war against Ukraine, this means that the aggressor is forced to leave the territory it currently occupies by all means - diplomatic and military. And to be punished for his crimes, and the main war criminal in the Kremlin, whom the American president recently met and honored as a dear friend, to be brought before the Criminal Court. Then future generations will know that the justice that politicians and journalists often talk about is not an empty phrase. The end of Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia can become the beginning of peace for Ukraine and Europe. Unless, of course, another Putin is installed in power in Moscow, as usual."