Riley S. Faelan on Nostr: **TL;ES: 🇺🇦 we the civilised peoples can and must help improve the Ukraine ...
**TL;ES: 🇺🇦 we the civilised peoples can and must help improve the Ukraine situation.**
Vlad von Kremlin has launched a genocidal war against yet another of Russia's neighbours, partly to support his local political amibitions, and partly to ruthlessly and abusively use a foreign country and its people as a "buffer state".
The war is not only itself illegal, but Russia's militants have been repeatedly caught waging it in ways repugnant to the laws and customs of warfare and committing atrocities against civilians.
In the current situation, the civilised world needs to some quite obvious things for our shared enlightened self-interest:<li>support Ukraine's <u>military defence</u>;</li><li><u>protect the people</u> of Ukraine, inside and outside the country;</li><li>maintain <u>sanctions on Russia</u>;</li><li>help Ukraine <u>rebuild</u>; and</li><li>following the precedent of the UN GA resolution 1668, <u>recognise Ukraine</u>, and not Russia, <u>as the legitimate holder of the permanent seat at the Security Council</u> allocated to USSR by Article 23 Section 1 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine, unlike Russia, has been making solid progress in terms of human rights and general welfare over the last thirty years, it having voluntarily given up its nuclear stockpile in 1994 marks it as the first post-nuclear country, and unlike the current pretender to the USSR seat, it's not a terrorist state.</li>
Last but not least, Vlad von Kremlin's actions, of which I'd particularly highlight his increasing efforts to persecute the LGBT+ folks living in Russia, have prompted an exodus of millions of people of Russia. We must recognise that people fleeing the tyranny of Putin deserve international protection even if they happen to hold a Russia passport. Certainly, due to the credibility issues of the Kremlin regime which controls the issuance of Russia passports, a higher level of scrutiny is appropriate — but past that scrutiny, it'd be morally indefensible to paint people clearly seeking to distance themselves from Kremlin's crimes with the horrible tarnish of these very crimes.
Vlad von Kremlin has launched a genocidal war against yet another of Russia's neighbours, partly to support his local political amibitions, and partly to ruthlessly and abusively use a foreign country and its people as a "buffer state".
The war is not only itself illegal, but Russia's militants have been repeatedly caught waging it in ways repugnant to the laws and customs of warfare and committing atrocities against civilians.
In the current situation, the civilised world needs to some quite obvious things for our shared enlightened self-interest:<li>support Ukraine's <u>military defence</u>;</li><li><u>protect the people</u> of Ukraine, inside and outside the country;</li><li>maintain <u>sanctions on Russia</u>;</li><li>help Ukraine <u>rebuild</u>; and</li><li>following the precedent of the UN GA resolution 1668, <u>recognise Ukraine</u>, and not Russia, <u>as the legitimate holder of the permanent seat at the Security Council</u> allocated to USSR by Article 23 Section 1 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine, unlike Russia, has been making solid progress in terms of human rights and general welfare over the last thirty years, it having voluntarily given up its nuclear stockpile in 1994 marks it as the first post-nuclear country, and unlike the current pretender to the USSR seat, it's not a terrorist state.</li>
Last but not least, Vlad von Kremlin's actions, of which I'd particularly highlight his increasing efforts to persecute the LGBT+ folks living in Russia, have prompted an exodus of millions of people of Russia. We must recognise that people fleeing the tyranny of Putin deserve international protection even if they happen to hold a Russia passport. Certainly, due to the credibility issues of the Kremlin regime which controls the issuance of Russia passports, a higher level of scrutiny is appropriate — but past that scrutiny, it'd be morally indefensible to paint people clearly seeking to distance themselves from Kremlin's crimes with the horrible tarnish of these very crimes.