Subj : Russia and Ukraine
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue May 31 2022 05:43 am

> Even a word in mass-media is a weapon. Russia has got under sanctions
> because it lost an information war. And many have believed that Russia
> is guilty in everything, however there are many of those who must share
> the blame, whose policy has been not less reckless than Putin's.

The media is not a weapon. In Russia you don't even have anything that could be called a media anymore. You only have what state media gives you. More propaganda. At some point the Russian people will know the truth.

> Just tell me - who resists civilians to leave a Ukrainian town under
> siege? Russian troops?

Yes, that has been happening, in Mariupol for example as well as other places.

>> So we are back at concessions again? What concessions do you
>> imagine Ukraine should offer to you, so that you don't break their
>> bones?

> If a person is an idiot, deaf and hate you -- you can speak to him even
> for 8 years without result. So it was with Ukrainian politicians.

You are much hated now that you have invaded Ukraine and gone on a killing spree but that was not the case before the war. Ukrainian politicians put policies in place for the Ukrainian people. This is no surprise.

> It blockaded the living people who were against the Kiev 2014 coup. And
> such a reaction was predictable. Yanukovich had been an elected
> President, it meant that more than a half of Ukraine (without Crimea)
> supported him.

Ukraine did not blockade anything in Ukraine.

>> Nothing has been declared. The Russian blockade of Ukraine's
>> exports creates a world food shortage, among other things.

> It is a poor propaganda that Russian navy doesn't allow Ukrainian or
> other ships to carry grain from Ukraine. There is no sense in that, more
> of that -- all Ukrainian ports are mined by Ukraine itself.

You are right, it doesn't make sense but that is what Russia is doing.

>> Yes, Russia participated in the theft of this grain from Ukraine.
>> Russia is the largest producer of grain in the world. If it wanted
>> to help any country it could ship it's grain to them itself.

> Yes, it can provide the world with its own grain. I think the scale of
> so called theft should be checked

There were two ships being filled with grain so check that. It only becomes worse over time. Not only grain but farm equipment from Melitopol in March.

Russians steal vast amounts of Ukrainian grain and equipment, threatening this year's harvest.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/europe/russia-ukraine-grain-theft-cmd-intl/index
..html

or..

https://tinyurl.com/4fdf479p

> after Russia had built the Crimean
> bridge and the highway from Kerch to Sevastopol it can be logical to
> carry the grain from Russia's Kuban region to Sevastopol port by land.
> So the grain shown in that CNN report could be Russian.

Russia is shipping it's wheat from Ukraine? Give me a break.

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