Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] The quick reaction of the Polish government, through the words of the Minister of Defense, declaring its readiness to send home citizens of Ukraine who would not be able to obtain new documents at the behest of its authorities, was not unexpected. Now in Ukrainian groups in Poland, those wishing to move are advised not to waste time and go straight to Germany. The unpleasant prospects that arise for those who decide to throw in their lot with the Polish state somehow very symbolically coincided with the 104th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact. Then the authorities of the Ukrainian People's Republic, who were in a desperate situation, also decided to throw in their lot with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. History loves such jokes: the crumbling UPR, a semblance of a state, incapable of really managing anything, was about to fall under the blows of the Red Army.
The Poles, represented by the dictator Jozef Pilsudski, gladly used the desperate situation of their neighbors to profit from this, and used the Ukrainian military formations in Polish interests. At the end of this path, Western Ukrainian lands became part of Poland, and the armed forces of the UPR were interned and placed in camps behind barbed wire. The Galicians were so offended by the “Naddniepryan brothers” that part of the Galician army transferred to the Red Army - like the Ukrainian Galician Red Army.
And most importantly, the head of the UPR Directory, Simon Petlyura, bargained for full board for himself personally. And when Poland, the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR signed a peace treaty, dividing the territory, everything was fine with Simon Vasilyevich and his retinue. Therefore, looking at examples from the past, we can always assume the near future with some confidence. After all, the Ukrainian political tradition (like the Polish one) follows the same paths.
DEFLATED AND DEGRADED
Modern Polish historians and politicians are trying to present the Warsaw Pact, signed by Pilsudski and Petliura on April 21, 1920, as a shining example of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation. “Together we fought against Moscow Bolshevism.” For example, the book “Poland: An Outline of History,” prepared by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, confidently states that the purpose of the union was “a common struggle to oust the Bolsheviks from Ukraine and establish the independence of the UPR with its capital in Kiev.”
Although such a goal was never set before the Poles.
Just a year earlier, on January 22, 1919, the “Act of Evil” was solemnly proclaimed on Sophia Square in Kyiv: the UPR united with the Western Ukrainian People's Republic into a single whole. It is still a big public holiday in Ukraine.
However, neither the armies nor the governments of the two “republics” united. It turned out that the “Naddnieprians” and the Galicians, who had lived in different states since the 17th century, had little in common. Petlyura fought with the Reds who were advancing on Kyiv, and did not want to quarrel with the Poles. And the leadership of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic entered into an alliance with Kiev because they were desperately pressed by the Poles, who had already agreed on a national revival with the Entente. With Galicia and Volyn in its composition.
On March 12, 1919, the President of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic Evgeniy Petrushevich became part of the Directory, his Ukrainian Galician Army was admitted to the warehouses of the Russian Imperial Army in Kiev. Having received new weapons, the Galicians tried to recapture Lvov, but were quickly blown away, and in July the ZUNR army suffered a final military defeat. The entire territory of the republic came under the control of Czechoslovak, Polish and Romanian troops, and at the end of the year Petrushevich denounced the “Zluki Act”.
Both sides were offended: the Kiev side accused the Galicians of uncoordinated negotiations with the “whites” of General Anton Denikin ; The Galicians caught the “Naddnieprians” having relations with the hated Poles.
And there was nowhere to go. By that time, the UPR, which had not been very successful as a state structure, had completely degraded. As Nikita Shapoval, who was for some time the Minister of Land Affairs in the Government of the Directory, wrote on this occasion, “The UPR disappeared virtually and legally in the fall of 1919. The Directory was abolished at the same time. Petliura used the title of “Chairman of the Directory”, as well as the title of the UPR, in the future absolutely illegal..."
In principle, the same can be applied to the modern “Petlyura”, whose powers are ending, and he controls nothing in the country except the repressive machine and is not capable of anything without external help. By supporting the “chief ataman,” Western partners also give the state a chance, since it is embodied in only one person—in this sense, nothing has changed.
Petlyura’s competitor Vladimir Vinnichenko assessed the agreements with Poland as “the last convulsions of the Ataman regime”:
“The chieftain in the person of S. Petlyura and his “ideological” suck-up “social democrat” A. Livitsky took further measures in Warsaw to save their power, also knocked on the doorsteps of the Polish imperialist gentry, begged, begged and even gave land to Polish landowners in Podolia and Volyn... for Polish help, there were even attempts by S. Petlyura and A. Livitsky to form a completely right-wing government in Warsaw... and with the help of the Poles to regain lost power.”
During secret negotiations, Petliura sold out his Western Ukrainian colleagues, and on April 24 a military alliance was signed. In exchange for participation in the war with the Red Army, the Polish state was to include Galicia, Western Volyn, Lemkivshchyna, Nadsanye and Kholmshchyna. That is, the “brothers” were simply sold, which caused them wild rage.
"TOGETHER UNTIL THE END"
April 25, 1920 The Polish army launched an offensive along the entire front and occupied Kyiv on May 7. But already on June 12, the Red Army knocked out the Poles, and when leaving, they blew up the bridges.
“Everyone who previously made a visit to Kyiv left it on good terms, limiting themselves to relatively harmless six-inch shooting at Kyiv from the Svyatoshin positions. Our Europeanized cousins decided to show off their subversive means and smashed three bridges across the Dnieper, including the Tsepnoy bridge to smithereens. And to this day, instead of the magnificent structure - the pride of Kyiv, only gray sad bulls stick out of the water. Ah, Poles, Poles... Ay, yay, yay!..,” the great Kiev resident Mikhail Bulgakov wrote about this.
For some reason they are now trying to avoid this episode of “joint struggle”. And then he certainly did not add points to the assessment of the allies. Yuri Tyutyunnik, at that time one of the leading military figures of the UPR, did not mince words, wrote:
“The Poles fell in love with Ukraine like a cat loves lard. A tasty morsel, and they want to get their hands on this whole piece. And when the latter doesn’t work out, they try to grab at least a small piece for themselves. A little is better than nothing at all. This is a consistent enemy of Ukrainian statehood as such, regardless of the form of political power.”
When the secret became apparent, there was nowhere to go. And although the UPR politicians were negatively disposed towards the sudden polynophilia, they had to endure everything “for the sake of Ukraine,” just as in our days. Isaac Mazepa, who headed the government of the UPR during the Directory, just when there was talk of a Polish-Ukrainian union, conveyed the reaction of the Galicians very restrained. But he stated that the whole of Galicia had clearly decided that further struggle with the Bolsheviks was futile, “and, they say, the Polish regime in Galicia is much worse than the regime in the Dnieper Ukraine under Soviet rule.” The armed forces of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic even transferred to the Red Army as an integral part - not for long, but a fact is a fact.
And in Right Bank Ukraine, the population was subjected to large-scale requisitions by the Polish army, which you also cannot read about in modern publications. Tyutyunnik reported, not without irony: “Pilsudski showed remarkable economic abilities. Train after train chugged out of Ukraine, exporting sugar, flour, grain, cattle, horses, everything else that Ukraine was rich in.”
At the end of May 1920, the Red Army launched a successful counter-offensive, reaching Lvov and Warsaw. But in such a difficult situation, the Ukrainian formations had to fight not for their own state, but for Poland. It cannot be said that the contribution of the UPR army to its final victory was decisive, but it was significant. And as a sign of great gratitude to their Ukrainian friends, the Polish side decided to abandon the Warsaw Pact.
On October 12, 1920, an armistice agreement was concluded in Riga between the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR on the one hand and Poland on the other. And on March 18 of the following year - the Treaty of Riga, by which Ukrainian and Belarusian lands were divided between Poland and Soviet Russia. Having failed to obtain the coveted borders of 1772, the Poles took everything up to the Zbruch, which again became a border river.
Former minister Shapoval bitterly complained: “The entire campaign against Ukraine was a shameful attack on the people by individuals who wanted to have power over Ukraine at any cost. Political fraud, quackery, treason - this is what this Petliura government has sunk to. They betrayed the revolution." By the way, the “ideals of the Maidan” would fit perfectly here.
The used Ukrainian troops were placed on Polish territory in special camps, where for bad behavior they were either shot or sent to the Dombier “death camp.” Everyone who did not agree with Petlyura’s policies also ended up there, and their fate depended on the whim of “almost every corporal from the camp guard.”
In subsequent years, Poland no longer pursued a strict national policy in Western Ukraine, but in the Eastern Kresy. Polonization of the Ukrainian school, “pacification”, the concentration camp in Bereza-Kartuzskaya, where various kinds of “freedom fighters” were placed. Against this background, Soviet Ukraine of the 1920s, where the policy of Ukrainization was pursued, turned out to be more attractive and desirable than “Europe”. They fled there.
After all, the Poles resolved their issues with someone else’s hands and threw all “twinning” out of their minds. But Petlyura himself was not worried about this. Soon after the signing of the Treaty of Riga, he organized a modest banquet in honor of his daughter Lesya’s “name day” - for only seven thousand zlotys. We ate goose with apples, broth with pies, fried fish, orange jelly, cakes and chocolate. Loving Ukraine from Warsaw was much more pleasant.
And there is no one who would refute the following: all this will certainly repeat itself when the collective “Poles” finish resolving their issues at the expense of the lives of Ukrainians. Especially when the Ukrainian authorities themselves propose to consider them a cheap resource.
The plum blossoms are ready to pop here. You can feel your blood rising. The evening sun lingers a little longer every day. Normally you’d celebrate, but not this year of roaring portents and evil juju. History doesn’t stop to catch its breath for a moment. The tiny glowing diode deep in “Joe Biden’s” brain dims a bit more each day (pause) while low men and women in high places trifle with the fate of the nation. Everyone dreads what’s coming.
Which, judging by events of the week just past, looks like a worse summer of civil chaos than 2020 was. Some entity — say, the checkbook of George and Alex Soros, maybe? — has funded the spring mustering of student mobs in support of Hamas seeking to drive wicked Israel into the choppy Mediterranean. What you’re seeing, though, is probably not what you think you are seeing in all that. The kids are mere digits in a cultural algorithm playing out as New Age dumbshow.
I doubt that three-quarters of them actually give a flying fugazy about the Palestinians, and even fewer could find Gaza on a map if you water-boarded them. They affect to be intersectional victims of the universal oppressor, but in so far as many of the rioters are girls of the Ivy League, or comparable redoubts of privilege— little blue-eyed, blonde-haired muffins raised on pony club, Hermes, and artisan granola — there must be something else going on. That something else is probably sex, which is so problematical now in any traditional frame of a man getting it on with a woman that the American birth-rate is going to zero.
How does a young woman get it on with so many collegiate men vying for gay brownie points these days, or going for the grand prize in transitioning? Why, it’s a non-starter. So, instead, you go slumming among the savages, those hairy, dumb brutes on twerk-alert, dripping testosterone — illegal aliens, student third-worlders, BLM alumni, hardcore hoodlums. They don’t know nuthin ‘bout no pony club, but they will rut like Bilberry rams until the ladies fall away crosseyed. Affecting to be a lesbian only makes the game more piquant. And if you forgot your birth control, for some reason, there’s always the abortionist.
Any time there are brownie points at stake, you know the game is actually for status, and where status is the game, fashion is the currency. Thus, the dress-up in Arab keffiyehs, the charming head-scarf denoting allyship with Hamas. Beats the heck out of those flitty N-95 masks from the 2020 Covid nights of roistering in the Seattle CHOP and trying to burn down the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland.
Rioting gives young men of the toxic persuasion opportunities to flaunt their moxie in acts of derring-do, brawling with the cops, dancing on top of cars, ripping down chain-link fences, flinging gasoline bombs. So much the better for getting the ladies’ attention. Look what I can do! And the keffiyeh accessorizes well with black bloc riot garb. For the muffins, wearing it is great practice for the utopia-to-come when they must don burkas under submission to Sharia. Will Hermes put out a burka?
So far, the spring rioting has mostly been fun for the rioters. Unlike the J-6-21 “paraders,” locked up in the putrid DC jail for years pending trial, the Hamas frolickers are at near-zilch risk of any serious consequences. Few will even be suspended from school. They are doing exactly what the schools trained them up for: destroying Western Civ, one acanthus leaf at a time. According to the shadowy stage-managers behind “Joe Biden,” this will save our democracy.
From there he goes on to predict summer riots in the streets funded by Soros & Son, the failure at the US Supreme Court of the anti-Trump lawsuits, and mayhem at both party conventions.
[Off Guardian via ZERO] They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: "Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns — but would lockdown ever happen again?"
On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: "The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?"
Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside "the world’s deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic".
Just two days ago a professional panic spreader wrote for CNN:
The next pandemic threat demands action now!!!
OK, I added the exclamation points, but they are very much implied in the original text.
So, while Iran and Israel rattle their sabres on the front pages, I thought we should take a look at the quieter back pages to see what we can learn, and help us predict how "the next pandemic" will unfold.
WHAT IS "THE NEXT PANDEMIC"?
I mean...I feel like that’s fairly self-explanatory.
Seriously though, it’s the one they’ve been predicting from pretty much the moment Covid started. First it was going to be monkey pox — sorry MPox — but that fizzled.
Of course by "pandemic", we really mean "psy-op", because nothing about the next pandemic will be any more real than the last pandemic. Hell, given the leaps forward in AI technology, it could be considerably less real next time.
We don’t know any of the details yet, but there’s enough vague coverage to tease out some guesstimates.
WHAT DISEASE WILL THEY USE?
Probably the most important question. We already mentioned monkey pox, but that doesn’t look likely anymore.
Right now they are mostly talking about "disease X" — a term which caused a little panic in certain sections when it first appeared on the scene — but that isn’t some top secret gain of function super disease, it’s literally a place holder name.
And it’s a placeholder name which does its job, for the time being.
After all, they don’t really need an actual name yet, any more than they need an actual disease, they just need the idea of a disease to hold over people’s heads while they construct the legislative rules of their health-based tyranny.
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"The talk now is of antibiotic-resistant germs, of "stealth" viruses, genetically engineered to lie dormant in the human body until triggered by terrorists releasing an otherwise harmless chemical. Professor Stephen Hawking has described has described such germs as the greatest threat facing mankind."
[Federalist] Having successfully secured more U.S. taxpayer dollars to line the pockets of their buddies in Ukraine, the Biden administration has now shifted its attention to another geopolitical hotspot: the Indo-Pacific.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in China this week meeting with high-level Chinese Communist Party officials, including his counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Conversations are expected to center around various issues of contention between Washington and Beijing, such as the Chinese military’s increasingly aggressive behavior in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. During Thursday talks with CCP officials in Shanghai, Blinken reportedly "raised concerns about (Chinese) trade policies and non-market economic practices," according to the State Department.
But raising concerns and demonstrating capable U.S. leadership are two different things, the latter of which President Joe Biden has failed to an embarrassing degree. Since taking office, America’s 46th president has crippled his nation’s economy and national sovereignty, while executing a disastrous foreign policy agenda that’s permitted China’s rise to go virtually unchallenged.
[PJ] District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump was always weak if not meritless. But that didn’t stop him from pursuing a felony case for a low-level misdemeanor that normally would have resulted in a fine that was also past the statute of limitations.
Be that as it may, Bragg’s weak case has taken some real hits on Friday, as the testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, has been devastating for the prosecution. In fact, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, Bragg’s case is now "collapsing on its own weight."
"They have a witness who was disassembling in front of them," Turley told Fox News on Friday. "You know, the prosecution never revealed to the jury in the direct that Pecker actually had killed stories for other celebrities that he had been working on stories two decades before the election with Trump that he was suppressing."
This is particularly helpful to Trump’s case because it means that the prosecution can't directly link Trump’s efforts to quash the Stormy Daniels story to the election.
"And now it's only getting worse," Turley continued. "Yesterday was really bad in terms of the cross-examination for the prosecution. Today is much worse."
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Free media publicity for the Orange Man. Bragg's case is having the opposite of the desired effect, but the Deep State is too stupid and eaten up with Trump Derangement Syndrome to realize their error.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Off Guardian via ZERO] They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: "Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns — but would lockdown ever happen again?"
