It was not NATO countries that attacked Ukraine. Ukraine was attacked by orcs who call themselves Russians. It is from them that Ukrainians are now defending themselves with the weapons that NATO countries provide to Ukraine. Now in Ukraine there are over 500 thousand Russian soldiers and officers who, with weapons in their hands, came to the territory of Ukraine to kill Ukrainians, but several hundred thousand of them have already found their death in Ukraine.

Already this year, events will occur in Russia itself that will significantly change the course of Russian aggression in Ukraine, and even the clouded consciousness of the orcs will begin to realize what they have done in Ukraine.

I googled it and I stand by my opinion. I don’t want to give any quotes and facts from what I read and saw, since the reaction to them is known in advance, that this is Ukrainian propaganda. It is worth saying, of course, that the information on this topic on the Internet is quite old and reflects different propaganda opinions. This is understandable: there is a large-scale war going on, including in the information space. But even if we think logically, the economic situation and standard of living of people in the so-called DPR and LPR cannot be better, since military actions leave a direct negative imprint on them. If most of the mines and other enterprises in the region are closed, and there are almost no public utilities in the cities, then life there is definitely no better compared to how people lived in “Bandera’s” Ukraine.

Russia's aggression will end soon. Only after this will it be possible to objectively judge how people lived and are living in different regions of the once united Ukraine.

Practice shows that if Russia appeals to any neighboring people that these are fraternal peoples and especially that they are a single people, then this means that in fact Russia wants to absorb these people and forcibly Russify them. The fact that this will happen soon follows a change in their rhetoric, that such a people does not exist and, in general, that this is an artificially created state. This already means that in the near future the Russians want to kill you. This was on the eve of the attack on Ukraine, and is now being seen in relation to Kazakhstan and other states neighboring Russia.

Now Putin’s Russia is trying to destroy Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation. Moreover, he does this in the most brutal and cynical way, every day shelling almost all cities and other populated areas of Ukraine, trying to intimidate and intimidate Ukrainians. This is a favorite technique of Russia, which in fact, to this day, is a prison for various nations and nationalities, forcibly conquered and annexed to it in different periods.

Therefore, it was not the CIA that divided Ukraine and Russia into two hostile camps, Putin’s Russia did this with its phased attack on Ukraine and it does it very well, so that this process happens as quickly as possible. What could be more convincing for young Ukrainians about the true intentions of the Russians than to see how Russia is methodically destroying residential buildings, schools, hospitals, churches throughout Ukraine, trying to leave Ukrainians without housing, water, light and heat, periodically causing environmental and other disasters , and also indiscriminately robs, kills and rapes civilians.

Therefore, I may disappoint you. Having shown its true face with a wolfish grin, for many generations Russia will be the worst enemy for Ukrainians of all ages, which must be feared and avoided. But the United States and European countries will be associated for Ukrainians as those who came to their aid in difficult times.

Just the facts:

The number of people who consider Ukrainian their native language has increased from 57% in 2012 to 76% in 2022.

The most noticeable changes in attitudes towards the language occurred between 2012-2016 due to the events of the Revolution of Dignity, the Russian war against Ukraine in 2014, the temporary occupation of Crimea and certain territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

The number of Russian-speaking Ukrainians was about 40% in 2012, 26% at the end of 2021 and 18% at the beginning of the war.

Russian speakers are increasingly becoming bilingual. Their number increased from 15 to 32%.
The number of those who constantly use only Ukrainian at home has increased slightly – from 44% to 48%.

The war in Ukraine has influenced attitudes towards the status of the language: today 83% of Ukrainians are in favor of Ukrainian being the only state language in Ukraine. Only 7% of Ukrainians are in favor of granting state status to the Russian language.

About 67% of Ukrainians believe that there are no problems between Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine; 19% believe that the language problem exists, but it is not important. Only 12% believe that the language issue poses a threat to internal security.

https://forbes.ua/ru/news/ponad-70-ukraintsiv-vvazhayut-ridnoyu-movoyu-ukrainsku-25032022-5030

We need to move away from oil and gas as the main sources of energy, and at the maximum possible pace, while we can still control the climate on our planet. Nowadays you can periodically read or hear in the news about the invention of new methods for obtaining energy from alternative sources, including more and more economical solar panels, and it is these areas that need to be developed. They may well replace oil and gas and provide humanity with cheap and inexhaustible energy. Therefore, I do not expect any energy crisis in the future.

Until 2014, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions within Ukraine prospered. The main economic sectors of these regions were coal mining and metallurgy. At the time of separation from Ukraine, the separatists stated that the Donbass region supposedly fed the whole of Ukraine and without it Ukraine would not survive.

But in September last year, Russian Energy Minister N. Shulginov announced that the number of coal mines in the “DPR” - “LPR” had been decided to be reduced from 114 to 15.
Already in 2020, there were only six operating mines left in the LPR. As a result of this “restructuring,” according to local media, over 32 thousand miners lost their jobs. In the “DPR” at the end of 2022, only the Komsomolets Donbassa mine was more or less operating, producing over 1 million tons of coal. But even in mines that are still operating, equipment wear has reached 85%. The indicator "85%" means a pre-emergency condition.
Metallurgical enterprises in the region are already completely closed. Thus, the economy of Donbass and Lugansk as part of the “separate republics” was almost completely destroyed. They admit that these regions are now almost entirely subsidized by the Russian Federation.

What really happened to the people of these regions? From them the so-called first and second army corps were formed as part of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and they were sent to the front to fight against Ukraine. They were usually used in the front row to detect the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so now there is almost no male population in the DPR and LPR. For this reason, public utilities do not work, the collapse is almost complete.

The Russian world brought decline and destruction to the Donbass, destroying a significant part of the civilian population. But Russia blames Ukraine for this. It’s so convenient to justify your atrocities.

You claim that the Ukrainian army has been shelling Donetsk since 2014, that is, for ten years now. During this time, only ruins should remain from Donetsk. When “brotherly Russia” “liberates” the Russian-speaking population in Donbass and other regions of Ukraine, up to 90 percent of residential areas become complete ruins, and out of several tens of thousands of the population, only a few thousand remain. But Donetsk will remain relatively intact. True, there is practically no electricity, water or other utilities, there are mountains of garbage on the streets because it hasn’t been cleaned up for a long time, but in general the houses are standing. But from Avdeevka, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been stationed since 2014, Donetsk is very close, only about 12-15 kilometers. So, Russian propaganda has no logic in the shelling of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for ten years, given its current relative integrity. This is all a deliberate lie in order to subsequently justify an act of military aggression.

You write, is the Ukrainian Armed Forces killing the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine? Do you know that in the Armed Forces of Ukraine they still very often speak Russian among themselves? Until Russia undertook to protect the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, there was no persecution of Russian speakers at all. Yes, after Ukraine gained independence, officials began to be required to know the state language - Ukrainian. And who spoke and how they spoke in everyday life was of no interest to anyone at all. But after Russia allegedly began to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine, the Russians themselves have already killed tens of thousands of Russian speakers.

And now in numbers. According to data from the reports of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Donetsk People's Republic, it is clear that from 2017 to 2021, only 76 civilians died in the DPR. Of these, in 2017 - 278 (of which 32 are civilian, the rest are military DPR), in 2018 - 154 (civilian 19), in 2019 - 160 (civilian 9), in 2020 - 44 (civilian 9), in 2021 - 77 ( civilian 7). For comparison, about 90-100 people per year die in road accidents on the territory of the DPR.

https://sysblok.ru/infographics/byl-li-genocid-statistika-gibeli-zhitelej-donbassa-v-2014-2021-godah/

In 2014, a detachment of former Russian FSB employee Girkin entered the Donbass and, with the help of a criminal element, corrupt individuals and others, had the Kremlin’s task of raising a rebellion in the region and first declaring it independent, and then annexing it to Russia. Due to the indecisiveness of the Ukrainian authorities at that time, they began to do this quite successfully. But the separatists began to be pushed towards the Russian border by some units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteers, armed only with small arms. Russia then introduced eight operational-tactical groups of its armed forces in armored vehicles into this Ukrainian territory and inflicted a significant defeat on the defenders of Ukraine.

  After this, at gunpoint from tanks, then-Ukrainian President Poroshenko concluded the so-called Minsk Agreement with Russia, which established the demarcation line between the separatists and Ukraine. Since then, there has been fighting along this border. For years, Russia did not recognize the presence of its military personnel there, who were first formally dismissed from the Russian army and transferred to the so-called DPR and LPR. Russia fully armed this group and, with the help of its instructors, organized military operations against Ukraine.

Initially, Russia planned to return after some time the self-proclaimed republics - DPR and LPR to Ukraine, but with expanded autonomy - the right to have its own structure of courts and law enforcement agencies, representation in the highest structures of power in Ukraine and with this help prevent Ukraine’s movement into the European Union and NATO. But Ukraine did not agree with this, after which Russia simply began to terrorize it, periodically shelling both Ukrainian territory and the occupied front-line part of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. At the same time, Putin’s Russia has constantly accused and accuses Ukraine of this.

In 2022, Russia wanted to resolve the issue radically and seize all of Ukraine. We can now see what happened next.

According to Article 65 of the Constitution of Ukraine, “the defense of the Fatherland, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine is the responsibility of citizens of Ukraine.” Ukraine as a sovereign state was attacked by a brutal Russian horde that robs, kills and rapes civilians, destroying everything in its path. Therefore, citizens of Ukraine are obliged to defend their state, their family and friends. In order to counter the illegal evasion of military duty by some citizens for the period of military operations and until victory over the Russian occupiers, Ukraine has introduced restrictions on travel abroad for persons of conscription age, that is, from 25 to 60 years.

In Russia, there are now also separate restrictions on leaving the country in relation to some officials, deputies, persons who have unfinished enforcement proceedings and in relation to some other categories.

https://rtvi.com/news/reuters-rossijskim-chinovnikam-i-deputatam-ogranichili-vyezd-za-graniczu/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.rbc.ru/finances/07/02/2024/65c0e1af9a7947cc76853d1a&ved=2ahUKEwiMw6mG9_WFAxXrh_0HHXDrBZkQFno ECEMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2slMq-6QxQgOfFvqgCyn6H

But unlike Ukraine, about 140 million people live in Russia. There are probably less than 35 million citizens in Ukraine already. Every month in Russia 20-30 thousand people are mobilized, who during this time are disposed of on the fronts of Ukraine. Russian human meat also does not want to die for Putin’s imperial ambitions, which is why in Russia over seven thousand former military personnel have already been convicted of desertion.

Putin attacked Ukraine because he cannot tolerate a democratic state near his borders. This is a bad example for his authoritarian empire, which relies on force of arms and coercion. In addition, he wants to appropriate the history of Ukraine and turn it into his own history of the Russian Federation. Although Russians are called Russians, they are not the same thing. Russia as a state arose under Tsar Peter the Great at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, and the state of Kievan Rus, with the center of the capital of present-day Ukraine Kyiv, was one of the most powerful states in Europe back in the 9th century, and present-day Moscow, being then still a small village, belonged to the Kyiv prince Yuri Dolgoruky. Therefore, before the reign of Peter the Great, Russians were called Muscovites, and the state itself was called Muscovy, but not Russians at all, since they had nothing to do with Rus', Kievan Rus. Now Russia is laying claim to the lands of Ukraine, although it is Ukraine that has the right to claim its historical lands, right up to Moscow.

The name "Ukraine" first appeared in the Kyiv Chronicle in 1187. Then it was rarely used, but it began to be used constantly from Cossack times, that is, from the 16th-17th centuries. “Ukraine” is one of the official names of the Cossack state that arose after the uprising of Bohdan Khmelnitsky against Polish power in the mid-17th century (along with other names - the Zaporozhian Army, Hetmanate, Little Russia).
@Ozero wrote about this well in his post dated April 04.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5470489.msg63899296#msg63899296

Therefore, do not repeat Russian propagandists who deliberately distort history to suit Putin’s imperial ambitions and say that before 1917 there was no country called Ukraine. It dates back to at least the ninth century and was then called Kievan Rus. But Russia did not exist for another eight centuries after that.

Regarding the overthrown president of Ukraine, not a single president has been overthrown in Ukraine. If you mean Yanukovych, then I already wrote that he himself fled from Ukraine, fearing reprisals for shooting down a peaceful protest. Subsequently, he was convicted by the courts of Ukraine for high treason and other criminal charges.
After Yanukovych, from February 23 to June 7, 2014, the duties of the president were performed by the Chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Turchynov, then, after the popular elections from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019, Poroshenko was the President of Ukraine and from May 20, 2019 to the present, Zelensky. By the way, 73.22% of Ukrainian voters voted for Zelensky in the elections and international observers confirmed the free expression of the will of Ukrainians in the presidential elections. Therefore, Zelensky is a completely legitimate president. If you have facts that Zelensky was appointed president of Ukraine by the United States, provide such facts to us.

Are there American military bases in Ukraine? Then indicate where exactly, I’ll go look at them, otherwise I’ve never even heard of such military bases. Almost every day, Russia fires missiles and drones at absolutely the entire territory of Ukraine. And she doesn’t touch the American military bases on the territory of Ukraine? Or are they simply not there?

If the United States wanted to destroy Russia or go to war with it, it would have been enough to provide Ukraine with the necessary military assistance back in 2022, and now at least the south of Ukraine and its Crimea peninsula would be liberated from Russian occupiers. As it is, the United States is still afraid of the escalation of the conflict with Russia and gives Ukraine minimal assistance, which, moreover, always arrives late.

Now Finland, after a large-scale attack on Ukraine, has become a member of NATO and has a common border with Russia of about 1200 kilometers. From its territory it is very convenient to launch missiles both at Moscow and St. Petersburg. From Finland it is even much closer than from Ukraine. But Russia does not react to this fact that way and still wants to capture Ukraine. Don't you think that something doesn't add up in your reasoning?

Is Ukraine shelling its own territory in Donbass? Wars always begin or escalate where “peacekeeping” Russian troops enter to provide assistance, as is happening in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. Without such “help,” neighboring states would live calmly and peacefully. Putin's Russia has long turned into a terrorist state. That is why the civilized world logically wants a change in the Putin regime that rules there in Russia.

Did Israeli special forces shoot at the demonstrators from the roofs of neighboring houses? If you wrote that aliens did it, it would be more believable. But even if we consider this version, then armed special forces of another state can be in Ukraine only with the personal approval of then President Yanukovych, which absolutely does not relieve him of responsibility. But the video clearly shows that this was done by representatives of the Ukrainian riot police. They were wearing the same clothes with their faces covered, and this is what made it difficult in court to identify them. But some of them were convicted by Ukrainian courts, while others fled to Russia.

Did Ukraine want war with Russia? It’s complete nonsense, considering that before this Ukraine transferred to Russia the third most powerful nuclear potential in the world, transferred a significant part of its combat aircraft, missiles and other weapons with which Russia is now attacking. Ukraine significantly reduced the size of its army to such an extent that Russia eventually captured the Crimean peninsula without firing a shot. Ukraine simply did not have the opportunity to resist then, and at the same time you say that Ukraine was preparing to attack Russia? And as a result, Russia also carried out a large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Maybe you will still deny this? Russian propaganda twists all facts and events to the point of absurdity, but at the same time Russians firmly believe in it.

To understand well the events that are happening now in Ukraine, you need to live in it for at least the last twenty years. I have been living in Ukraine all this time and I see with my own eyes all the economic and political processes actually taking place in it. Where do you live, talking about what is happening in Ukraine? I can say with confidence that you are not a resident of Ukraine.

Putin launched a military invasion of Ukraine, first a hybrid one in 2014 and then an open one in 2022, largely out of a desire to bring Ukraine back into the Russian sphere of influence and eventually annex its territories into Russia. He began to act actively when he saw that Ukraine was taking real steps towards rapprochement with Europe and was trying to join the European Union. In November 2013, the team of the then President of Ukraine Yanukovych went against the will of the people and, on Putin’s instructions, abandoned the course towards European integration. After this, people took to the streets to protest. Yanukovych tried to disperse this protest by force, giving the command to fire live ammunition at unarmed demonstrators. As a result of this, over a hundred people were killed, who were later called the “heavenly hundred” in Ukraine. But the people were not afraid and at the rally they announced that the next morning they would storm the residence of the murderous president. Yanukovych was frightened by this and fled to Russia, where he remains to this day. A coup you say? So who provoked him?

Before the war with Russia, there was no not only hostile, but even hostile attitude towards Russian speakers in Ukraine. Perhaps in the west of Ukraine, where the genocide and atrocities of the USSR against the Ukrainian people are still fresh in memory. There are indeed many Russian speakers in Ukraine, because the Russification of the entire USSR was previously its policy. I myself have spoken Russian for almost my entire adult life, living in Ukraine. But the topic of Russian speakers and the supposed need to protect them was used by the Kremlin to attack Ukraine. As a result, in the east of occupied Ukraine, cities were destroyed almost to the ground and the male population almost disappeared. A kind of protection from Russia.

Now, indeed, the people of Ukraine are massively abandoning the use of the Russian language as the language of the occupiers and are switching to Ukrainian. In particular, if before the war about 455 thousand schoolchildren studied the Russian language as a separate subject in Ukrainian schools, now less than a thousand schoolchildren study Russian in schools that survived Russian missile attacks. This is a pattern so that in Russia there is no desire to “protect” Russian speakers in Ukraine.

The central bank in each state performs many useful functions, regulating the financial system and taking measures to strengthen its national currency. Paper money also plays a certain positive role. Therefore, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. If there is no central bank, someone will definitely perform its functions. And if it is just one official, then the problems in the country will certainly increase.

It will be best if the state has a strong national currency. And for this, first of all, it is necessary for the economy to work and all processes in it to be optimized. But don't blame paper money. In a normal state, they are issued for the amount of material assets in circulation and then problems should not arise.

Russia continues to invest all its funds in the war of aggression against Ukraine and its main reserve - the National Welfare Fund - is being reduced very sharply.
In the coming years, according to the International Monetary Fund, Russia will continue to lose its position in the ranking of countries in the world in terms of living standards. The Russian Federation already ranks 68th in the world in terms of GDP per capita, which is considered an indicator of the level of economic activity and quality of life of citizens.

Last year, the Russian economy generated just $13,648 in GDP per capita. This is 6 times less than the USA ($81,632), 4 times less than Germany, and almost 10 times less than Luxembourg ($129,810). Over the past 10 years, GDP per capita in the Russian Federation has decreased by 16%. As a result, in the world rankings Russia was on the same level with Mexico ($13,642) and below Panama ($18,725), Argentina ($14,024), Bulgaria ($15,854) and Hungary ($22,146).

In the next three years, according to IMF forecasts, Russian GDP will grow by only 11% to $15,146. As a result, Russia will let Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan advance. By 2029, Russian GDP per capita will be $15,683 – 15% less than in Kazakhstan ($18,396) and Turkmenistan ($18,202).

https://www.unian.net/world/rossiya-upadet-nizhe-turkmenistana-po-urovnyu-zhizni-uzhe-cherez-tri-goda-mvf-novosti-mira-amp-12623451.html

And all because Putin wanted to go down in history as a great conqueror on the level of Hitler, and the Russian people actively supported him in this. Just like Hitler before, he threw countless columns of tanks and armored vehicles into Ukraine without declaring war. To date, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 470,870 military personnel have become irretrievably lost to Russians, 7,332 tanks, 14,096 armored vehicles, 12,044 artillery systems, 1,053 MLRS, 784 air defense systems, 26 warships and boats and other military equipment have been destroyed. But the Russians still have to pay for the atrocities and genocide of the Ukrainian people.

We talk a lot about the BRICS countries and discuss what they can do, including in opposition to the dollar. But I have not yet heard anything about what these countries have actually done in practice, what decisions they are making. There is also a lot of talk about the special currency of the BRICS countries, but there is no information at all about this possible currency.

Well, they created the BRICS Development Bank back in 2014 with an authorized capital of $100 billion and equity participation of all BRICS members. Authorized capital in dollars to fight against the dollar?

War can only bring benefit and prosperity to the arms market. All other markets will be in a fever from the big war and will lead to a big fall. After all, war is, first of all, the total destruction of everything material, causing great damage to the environment, and after its completion, the surviving people will be ruined. Therefore, one should not talk about war as something good. If you want to see this with your own eyes, come to Ukraine closer to the front line or to its territories occupied by the Russians. They probably don’t think about cryptocurrency and don’t even try to keep their crypto wallets safe. There we are talking simply about banal survival.

Even now it cannot be said that Russia dominates the Black Sea and it is unlikely that this situation will change positively for it after its current war with Ukraine. Yes, Russia has captured part of the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. But the south for her now is like a suitcase without a handle. It’s a pity to lose, and it’s hard to bear. Why has the Russian occupiers been unable to drive out the Ukrainian landing forces on the left bank of the Dnieper near the village of Krynki for more than six months? And not only can they not do this, but the bridgehead is expanding, and the Russians are suffering heavy losses and cannot do anything about it?
 
The captured south of Ukraine is a long strip about a hundred kilometers wide. And all of it is constantly under fire control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. To deliver ammunition to the Krynok region, it must be transported either through the captured land part of Ukraine, which is over 800 kilometers under fire, or bypassing through the captured Crimean peninsula. And Russians regularly fly to the Crimean peninsula to visit military installations, and recently high-precision missiles have been methodically destroying Russian air defenses located there in the form of S-300 and S-400 air defense systems. Planned preparations are underway for the appearance of F-16 aircraft and a large number of long-range missiles in Ukraine.

After the inevitable destruction of the Crimean Bridge, the south of Ukraine and Crimea itself will already turn for the Russians from a suitcase without a handle into a bag of fire and a trap from which it will be very difficult to escape. Russia understands this and is now building a railway across the captured south of Ukraine in case the Crimean Bridge is destroyed. This is in an area where the partisan movement works well and any movement of Russian equipment and manpower immediately becomes known to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the partisans themselves can blow up the bridges and rails of this railway.

The West has already decided that Russia cannot win this war of aggression. This means that the “dominance” of Russians there is temporary and purely conditional.

I expected that after the price correction that took place recently, the cryptocurrency would go up. But for several days now, Bitcoin, Ethereum and other potential cryptocurrencies have been losing their value. Now Bitcoin has fallen to $57,287, and Ethereum to $2,887. The news writes that a possible reason for this drop is a failure in the US financial system and the expectation of high inflation. At the same time, before the next wave of growth, the cryptocurrency market always experiences a fall.
For now, we need to patiently wait for the situation to change for the better. The speculation that Ethereum spot ETFs will not be approved reinforces my belief otherwise. Even if not this month, then a little later. Now the main thing is to hold on to your cryptocurrency; prices in this market will soon go up again.

India's population has surpassed 1.428 billion, slightly larger than China's 1.425 billion, according to the United Nations. You can imagine what would happen if one country with a population of almost one and a half billion people declared war on a country with the same number of people. No matter how events unfold, a war between them will be a disaster for both states. I think that both China and India understand this. Therefore, I don’t think that a real war will break out between them in the foreseeable future. Economic, yes, or some minor provocations.
China, I think, is more interested in Taiwan. But this will depend on the results of Russia’s war against Ukraine. If Russia does not win the war, China will also be forced to hold back its imperial ambitions.