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Steve (family name withheld for security purposes). 10-16-23
As a supporter of the Ukrainian cause, I appreciate your site and the daily updated information on the war. However I am increasingly puzzled as to actual purpose/mission of your site. Is it to INCREASE support for Ukraine and to provide information to those who empathize/support Ukraine?
Increasingly because of its unrelenting attacks for the Trump and the conservative wing of the US Republican Party (which is at least around 40% of the US population) it appears to be nothing more than another propaganda blog for the leftist/socialistic Democratic Party in the US.
What value does this approach serve except to DECREASE Ukrainian support in the United States? Keep to the war and if you feel you must include political coverage of US provide balanced and fair information from multiple perspectives.
Thank you for your feedback Steve and for stopping by to read about Ukraine and learn the truth which can be elusive, but hopefully not here.
Slava Ukraini~~!!
Wow. This is refreshing. Hell must be freezing over. Here we have a news item related to Trump without any ‘unrelenting attacks’ (so far). Thank you Steve.
A lot of articles appear on UT from Newsweek. It is right of center:-
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsweek/
A lot of articles are posted on UT from The Daily Telegraph, one of the oldest Conservative papers in the world and the biggest Conservative site that supports Ukraine in the world. Unless anyone knows another one?
Some articles appear here from WSJ; one of the very few, possibly the only US conservative site that supports Ukraine.
A lot of articles appear here; probably in excess of 50%, from Ukrainians themselves; either from Ukrainian sites like the KP, KI, Unian, NV, Ukrinform, Obozrevatel, EP etc, or from Ukrainians on LinkedIn. Most have no US party political content whatsoever.
Conclusion: Steve either does not read UT, skims it, or has some other agenda.
I can’t speak for the silent readers, but the overwhelming majority of commenters on UT are right of centre. Some are far right. There is maybe one Democrat loyalist and he is strongly pro-Ukraine.
It is the ruling Democrats who are helping Ukraine and they; particularly the president, get frequent fierce criticism from commenters for giving Ukraine just enough to stay in the game; never enough to win. Biden actually gets more criticism than Trump. When Trump or one of his followers makes some hideous statement about cancelling Ukraine funding or some ridiculous “land for peace” offer, he/they rightly get criticised. The parliament of Ukraine is clear that no negotiations involving the gifting of land to the aggressor will happen. In fact they want to enshrine that in law.
So, if you propose land for peace, you are not remotely pro-Ukraine. Simple as that. If a Senator or Representative votes for an end to, a cutback, or a delay in Ukraine aid, or lobbies for those things, he/she a Russian agent. Whether actual or defacto is immaterial.
The Conservative wing of the GOP has decent people who support Ukraine like Roger Wicker, Nikki Haley, Lindsay Graham etc. The Putin wing wants to end all aid and unhappily is succeeding at the moment.
Very well said, Scradge!
if Americans are able to vote for a leader who had difficulty passing power to his successor, the whole world will be able to draw conclusions about the Americans’ new attachment to the democratic system. at that moment you will “make your interlocutors laugh” with your notions of the “land of the free” and the “American dream”!
let us also remember that without certain manipulations/external influences Trump should never have even come to power.
But be sure that all those who want the USA to be weakened want Trump to be re-elected! the arsonists recognize each other.
we are in an era where coolness, self-control, level-headedness, are discredited in favor of hysteria, impulsivity and, in other words, spontaneity, reactivity.
now among some aging people when they get on the plane to pilot the plane, they only want someone who looks like them, they don’t care if they are trained pilots, no they just want a big mouth like them.. . it’s the biggest mouth that’s in charge now, skills are incidental, pretension is enough! “in 24 hours the world is at my feet”. (the world of puppets)
of course, to go far, wisdom is better than short-term calculations, but who sees far? where are the people who planted trees for future generations? (it’s certainly not Elon Musk who built everything on quicksand…)
Steve appears to be delusional. There are no “unrelenting attacks for the Trump and the conservative wing of the US Republican Party”.
The attacks are on those who are pro-putler and those who are opposed to helping Ukraine. Since the intent of the site is to “bring as many people together as I can to support Ukraine” [RSM], that’s to be expected.
Steve seems to read only the stuff in which the Trumpet and the pro-mafia faction of Congress get attacked. If this goes against his grain, then that’s just too bad. As we’ve mentioned many times before – countless times – Trump and the pro-mafia faction of the US government are not only bad for Ukraine, but bad for the United States. Furthermore, they are bad for our international friends, bad for NATO, and bad for freedom.
What they are not bad for, is russia, vlad putin, kim in north korea, and china.
Steve wholly ignored the many times – countless times – when Biden got attacked, too.
We do all of this for good reasons. Read more of our comments to find out, Steve.
Our friend 1orangebleue wrote “let us also remember that without certain manipulations/external influences Trump should never have even come to power.”
I wonder what manipulations/external influences gave rise to Biden coming to power? It’s a serious question because: 1) Putin needed weakness in the White House in order to invade Ukraine, weakness like he enjoyed when Obama was in power; and 2) once it has been demonstrated that one can manipulate/influence the US presidential election, as is asserted here by 1orangebleue, that won’t be the end of such manipulations. So it seems 1orangebleue is making the case for the 2020 election to have been stolen as well as in 2016.
Russia tried to influence the election results in 2020 just as they did in 2016. In both cases they worked to help Trump and harm his opponents. This was authorized by putler.
“making the case for the 2020 election to have been stolen as well as in 2016.”
No, Russia tried to get their puppet elected both times. They succeeded in 2016; they failed in 2020, after the country saw what a disaster Trump was.
Putin needed someone in the office who would pull the US out of NATO, but he failed to achieve his goal.
Far from being weak, President Biden walked into this office better prepared and better qualified for the office than anybody who entered the office before him. That’s just a fact. He has extraordinary character forged from unimaginable pain and misfortune which created one of the most empathetic presidents we have ever had when we needed that the most. He had earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence. And that character and integrity and that education was joined with an extraordinary amount of preparation. He was a US Senator for 36 years. Then he served as vice president of the United States for eight years, earning the nation’s highest honor and award given to a civilian, the Medal of Freedom and that with distinction.
The FBI and the CIA said the Kremlin played BOTH SIDES in the elections, trying to pit American against American in an effort to bring the system down. You don’t believe the FBI and CIA?
The Russians played both sides – they boosted trumpkov, who was totally unqualified to be president of the United States, and they launched a pro-Jill Stein social media blitz in order to cut into Hillary Clinton’s share of the vote. (There was previous discussion here about Stein being at a 2015 Moscow gala celebrating the tenth anniversary of Russia Today, and her appreciating the support she got from RT.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166
@Duck
“I wonder what manipulations/external influences gave rise to Biden coming to power? ”
If I understand you correctly, you assume that Biden benefited from foreign influences or stole his election?
he came to power normally, honestly.
for Trump, Wagner admitted that he had a role, after the Clinton email affair and all the dishonest and manipulative work of Cambridge Analytica.
so I actually say that not only, without obscure/particular maneuvers, he should never have come to power – that thanks to his record/the quality of his work, there is now a North Korea/Iran/Russia alliance. .. that he broke the conservatives and the “American team spirit” before his reign, and that he has the blood of the capitol on his hands, and that having no real respect for his country and the democracy, nor for a whole section of Americans, he used all his weight to steal/divert the system for his own benefit.
he added his contribution to the reputational degradation of the US and the West. he showed the world that the US, security provider, could switch to the dark side.
for Trump, justice is on the move, she has already condemned Fox News for lying about electronic voting machine fraud, and the rest will follow. you have to be blinded to believe that he will go down in history and be one of the great American leaders 😉
By passing the pivot towards China this was initiated by Obama, who (make mistakes too) probably wanted a more modest and less brutal America after the bullshit of Bush Jr., who showed him, to the whole world, that he was sitting on the right international and did what he wanted without being accountable to anyone – which must have had harmful consequences for his successor first, then for the US and all Westerners…
Biden probably made the mistake at the beginning of saying that he would not send a soldier… but for the moment I think he is doing the job… that there are several actors and that everyone plays their part.. .
I hope that the suffering of the Ukrainians first and then of others will be rewarded and that it will positively fertilize minds well beyond its rediscovered borders.
Bravo!
They generally think the US voter will follow what Vladolf and the Kremlin say…which is preposterous. With a 9% approval rating it would have the opposite affect and they don’t understand that. Too bad some are blinded by partisanship, they end up just like the Soviets.
Surely you don’t think that the Russian interference consisted of Vladolf and the Kremlin saying to vote for trumpkov. It was nothing so obvious (and which obviously would be ineffective).
It was things like hacking emails and leaking them to Wikileaks. Setting up fake sites to pit Americans against Americans. Setting up Russian troll farms to improve trumpkov’s chances in the race. (Confirmed by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee.)
“The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”
“Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents.”
“the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome”
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download
Contrary to Steve’s view, my impression, as a leftwinger (at least in US context, left of Biden), is that the reporting is too much focussed on the GOP. But, hey, it’s your site.