by Declan Hayes, Strategic Culture:
Before getting on to the alleged genocide by Russian and Belarusian forces in Ukraine, let’s briefly salute Wikipedia’s list of genocides, which includes not only that alleged event but Germany’s Siege of Leningrad as well several others Germany has yet to atone for. Although there are several “minor” genocides there, which I was either unaware of or had half-forgotten, this alleged Ukrainian genocide is my focus here because it helps to put NATO’s shoddy scholarship and shoddy reporting not only on the current Ukrainian conflict but on many others, such as the current Alawite genocide, into focus.
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First off, we may note that, as Belarus is not a participant in the war, Belarus can no more be said to be accountable for Russia’s alleged crimes, than Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland can be for the crimes Germany committed a little over 80 years ago. Although that much should be obvious, my main criticism is not with Wikipedia’s shaky standards but with the various “authoritative” sources they cite in notes 54-60 regarding this alleged genocide by Russia.
Note 54 refers to this United Nations account which is just a superficial 850 word survey of how the war stands. Although attacks on dual purpose schools and children fatalities are mentioned in passing, there is no direct mention of genocide or attempts at genocide. Note 55 is this 380 word February 2024 AFP piece, which speculates on the total body bag count and which quotes Zelensky’s fellow Ukrainian Pinocchios to negate any authoritative or trustworthy substance it might have otherwise have had.
Several of my former articles have already dealt at great length with notes 59 and 60, which deal with charges NATO’s International Criminal Court has leveled against Russian President Putin and the even more ridiculous ones against Maria Lvova-Belova. Whereas note 59 links to the now discredited ICC, note 60 links to this shallow Le Monde report which, though basically telling us that child abduction is as bad in Ukraine as it is in Syria, Africa or Cambodia, does not adduce an iota of evidence regarding Putin’s culpability in this alleged crime. My own opinion, having deduced the evidence as best I can, is that Putin has ordered his troops to go easy on the tough love and the reason the Pope and others express antithetical views is they listen far too much to Zelensky and his fellow Pinocchio puppets.
On the topic of Pinocchios, note 57 refers to this BBC report, which conflates Russian reports regarding the need to neutralise Ukraine’s well entrenched fascist extremist movements with a perceived Russian desire to exterminate all Ukrainians. Even leaving aside that it was Zelensky’s Nazis who wanted to do their own mini Final Solution of Russian speakers and that incriminating video evidence abounds as to how they treated the civilian “Ivans” they captured in Kursk, Russia, to my uninformed mind and to that of very many Rusisans, has fought this war with their gloves firmly on. As regards the old fall back of the tourist attraction for NATO leaders of Bucha, to my eyes at least, it was, on the evidence presented at the time, the Ukrainians who perpetrated that massacre. And, though time constraints forbid me from dwelling on it, I know that Wikipedia and the links they share will shed no real light on that crime.
Although note 58 refers to this May 2022 report by the New Lines Institute entitled.“An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent”, one has to wonder how independent this Washington based Muslim Brotherhood lobby group is, given that it admits to working to enhance American foreign policy. Given that the report was written very shortly after Russia’s military intervention, one has to naturally wonder just how neutral this report by this Washington-aligned group is.
As the report kicks off with a series of maps with such titles as “Russian Destruction of Ukraine” and “Russian Destruction tactics in Ukraine” before going on to “Reports in the media” and linking to a variety of reports praising Syria’s head choppers, we can conclude that, despite the huge financial resources behind this snow job, it is worthless as a piece of research or as a well of background knowledge.
Having dispensed with all the rest, we now move to note 56, the last note standing, which links to a variety of supposedly peer reviewed academic articles.
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