Here we will try to Answer some of the key questions come up again again concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Question #1: Why is Putin Not the Good Guy?

  1. Persecution of the Church: Ever-increasing over the past 23 years, where now it is illegal to share the Gospel with anyone outside of a church and if it is minor (which sometimes can be as old as 25!) it is considered child abuse. In the areas of Donbas that Putin has taken, every single non-Russian Orthodox minister has either been killed or forced to flee.
  2. Human Trafficking: Under Putin human trafficking has not disappeared, but rather has been normalized and organized. When he came to power there were many gangs and many different mafia groups causing chaos and Putin organized them and now they only operate with his protection and with his allowance. So if he has allowed and normalized human trafficking in Russia, we can be certain he would do the same in any areas of Ukraine he takes.
  3. Biological & Chemical Weapons: It is a well-documented fact that ever since Putin took power, he has flaunted the international conventions that Russia is party to banning a whole series of chemical and biological weapons, by continuing to develop and even use these in war. If that is the case, WHY would him taking over these supposed facilities in Ukraine cause ANYONE to sleep better. Even if they did exist, they would simply be arming him with more terrifying weapons.

Bonus Material #2: Why is this not some Deep State play?

  1. Always the Goal: Putin has indicated since the very first days of his reign in 1999 that his goal is to re-establish the Russian Empire (of which Ukraine is an absolute core element).
  2. Never a Country: He has continually stated his hatred and distain for Ukraine, refusing to see them as a country and blaming them, rightly, for the territorial dissolution of the Soviet Union that they precipitated when they pulled out of the USSR.
  3. Same Playbook: Everything Putin has done in Ukraine is identical to what he has done in the first four wars he has conducted: Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea & Donbas & Syria. Nothing there was a response to anything the West has done.

Bonus Material #3: Why diplomacy and negotiation do not work with Putin?

  1. No Compromise: In Russian culture, compromise is NEVER good, but rather always a sign of weakness. In Western Culture and in the English language, compromise is the very essence of diplomacy. But Russians view it in the same way, we view “moral compromise,” fundamentally wrong. The only acceptable outcome is total domination. And so Russia only ever negotiates from the end of a gun.
  2. He Lies: Over and over again, for 23 years Putin has demonstrated that he says one thing and does another. When he is talking it is always to buy time to do something else. Talk for him is another weapon, and means absolutely nothing to him.
  3. His Goals: His goals are all that matter to him and they are non-negotiable. And his goal has NEVER been peace. But always to advance his goal of Russia being the preeminent super-power, dominating Europe and the world.

Bonus Material #4 – Where are all these alternative narratives coming from?

  1. In 2014 Putin couldn’t handle that the world refused to buy Russia’s narrative of “internal forces throwing off Ukrainian oppression in Crimea and Donbas.”
  2. So Putin set the Kremlin  to work with their bot armies and they began to flood the web with tons of alternative narratives, many contradictory of each other, but that didn’t matter because the mass of them muddied the waters and created confusion, attempting to bury the truth.
  3. You can trace the origin of most of these to Russian and Chinese bot farms if you’re willing to do your research.
  4. What really revealed the lie though was that there were coordinated narratives to support the Russian invasion, primarily as a attempt to prevent genocide, which by the 3rd day of the war was obviously a lie.
  5. But many other narratives were also stranded as the Russian Army blatantly began to attack civilian soft targets (hospitals, schools, orphanages, water treatment facilities, etc.) with the human suffering unimaginable.

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***There is obviously so much more that could be said in response to both of those questions, but these alone should be enough to encourage suspicion enough to reject extremely convoluted narratives and embrace the clear and obvious fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine to achieve regional dominance at all costs.