the NATO countries should be sanctioned instead......

FOLLOWING THIS INTRODUCTION, AN ARTICLE IN THE SMH HAS TO BE READ KNOWING THE FACT THAT NATO AND THE WEST PROVOKED THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE... IT HAS TO BE RECOGNISED THAT BY APRIL 2022, THE UKRAINIAN ARMY HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND THE RUSSIAN ARMY STOPPED SHORT OF ENTERING KIEV BECAUSE A PEACE DEAL WAS BEEING NEGOTIATED IN TURKEY.

THE PEACE DEAL WHICH WAS VERY FAVOURABLE TO UKRAINE — i.e. ADHERE TO THE MINSK AGREEMENTS AS AGREED IN 2014-15 AND RATIFIED BY THE UNITED NATIONS — WAS THEN SCUTTLED BY BORIS JOHNSON [WHO NOW HAS MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION DEAD ON HIS CONSCIENCE] ON BEHALF OF THE COLLECTIVE WEST... ZELENSKY [AN MI-6 ASSET] THUS DID NOT FINALISE THE PEACE DEAL WHICH HAD BEEN INITIALED BY ALL THE NEGOTIATORS... BEFORE THE PEACE DEAL WAS TO BE ENACTED, THE RUSSIA TROOPS HAD TO RETREAT — WHICH THEY DID.

THE DECEITFUL NAZI KIEV REGIME SET A FEW FALSE FLAG EVENTS AND BLAME THE RUSSIANS...

FROM THEN ON, THE UKRAINIAN ARMY HAS BEEN SUPPORTED OVERTLY AND COVERTLY BY NATO FORCES... RUSSIA IS WINNING NONETHELESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD...

THIS CONFLICT HAD THUS BEEN PROVOKED BY NATO MOVING EASTWARD ON BEHALF OF THE WEST — THE AMERICANS HAVING VOWED TO DESTROY RUSSIA SINCE 1917.

ONE HAS TO KNOW THAT UKRAINE WAS NEVER A "UNIFED" COUNTRY — WITH AROUND 35 PER CENT OF RUSSIANS. IT WAS LIKE IRELAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM UNTIL THE IRISH GAINED INDEPENDENCE... HERE THE RUSSIAN LIVING MOSTLY IN THE DONBASS REJECTED THE NAZIS RISING [AGAIN — SEE WORLD WAR TWO] IN KIEV WHO HAD BEEN "SPONSORED" [$5 BILLION] BY THE AMERICANS...

THIS IS WHY WE NEED:

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

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HERE IS THE SMH ARTICLE:

‘Part of the propaganda’: Canberra urged to block Russian athletes over ties to sanctioned oligarchs

Rob Harris

Russian athletes set to controversially compete in Australia within weeks have direct links to sanctioned organisations and oligarchs, which threatens to pose legal and diplomatic dilemmas for the federal government under its sanctions laws.

The Russian women’s national water polo team is due to appear under its flag, anthem and national colours at the sport’s world cup at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre in July after World Aquatics overturned a ban on Moscow in April. The decision marks one of the most significant returns of Russian national representation to international sport since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It has triggered a boycott of hosting events by several European countries.

The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, which is fiercely opposed to the move, is calling for intensive visa and security scrutiny for all Russian athletes, officials and support personnel travelling to Sydney. It is asking whether they are connected to entities already targeted under sanctions.

AFUO chair Kateryna Argyrou said Russia’s participation could not be separated from its war against Ukraine, nor from the documented use of elite sport by Vladimir Putin’s regime as a “tool of propaganda, prestige and international legitimisation”.

The team that qualified for Sydney at the Division II World Cup tournament in Malta this year included captain Ekaterina Prokofyeva, along with several players drawn from KINEF-Surgutneftegas, a dominant force in Russian women’s water polo.

The club is financially backed by Surgutneftegas, one of Russia’s largest oil producers. Surgutneftegas appears on Australia’s sanctions list, as does its long-time director-general, oil tycoon Vladimir Bogdanov.

Ukraine and Estonia have urged Australia to follow the European Union by imposing stricter restrictions on Russian oil, known as “blood oil”, entering the nation via third countries as a parliamentary inquiry probes ways to toughen Australia’s sanctions regime against Russia.

At the national level, Russia’s water polo program sits within the Russian Aquatics Federation, headed by Dmitry Mazepin, another individual sanctioned under Australia’s measures.

Mazepin, a Belarusian-Russian oligarch who amassed wealth in the chemical and fertiliser sectors, is not expected to travel to Sydney and there is no suggestion any athlete is personally designated under Australian sanctions.

But a leading sanctions expert says Australia’s broad regime could also extend to athletes who are employed by teams owned or run by entities or individuals. Under Australia’s sanctions regulations, often referred to as Magnitsky laws, it is a criminal offence to directly or indirectly make an asset available to, or for the benefit of, a sanctioned individual or entity.

Anton Moiseienko, an associate professor of law at the Australian National University, said sanctions questions depended on facts including ownership, control and who benefits.

“These sanctions implications should be considered by the Australian government,” he said.

“There’s a group of foreign citizens coming in, presumably applying for visas. There is some public resonance around this case, and there seem to be issues around sanctions that are necessary to consider.”

Moiseienko said a recent High Court judgment in the case of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian national and an oligarch sanctioned by Australia, accepted broad interpretations of restrictions on dealing with controlled assets and highlighted how sanctions provisions reached well beyond straightforward financial transactions.

He said the definition of an asset extended beyond money and included property, equipment, documents and intangible material. Moiseienko said that could include whether equipment, team services, media production, accommodation arrangements or prizemoney could amount to assets being used, provided or generating benefit.

Another scenario to be canvassed, he said, was whether any financial benefit generated through participation could flow to athletes employed by structures linked to sanctioned entities or back through governing bodies headed by sanctioned individuals. The world cup finals carry prizemoney of almost $1 million.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade declined to comment on any potential sanctions compliance action, but the government made clear it opposed the sporting decision.

“We are disappointed by the recent decision by World Aquatics to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags, while Russia continues its brutal invasion of Ukraine,” a DFAT spokesperson said.

Officials said final athlete and support staff lists had not yet been submitted.

Putin’s ambassador to Canberra, Mikhail Petrakov, was hauled into DFAT on Wednesday over Moscow’s vow to launch strikes across the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

The government has said Water Polo Australia was required to host qualified teams under World Aquatics rules and that international sporting federations operated independently of government. DFAT said all entrants remained subject to Australia’s sanctions and border controls.

Former Olympian Andrei Kovalenko, who was born in Ukraine, competed professionally in Moscow and later represented Australia in water polo at the Sydney games, said Western sporting bodies misunderstood the relationship between Russian sport and the state.

“When someone’s saying sport is out of politics, I’m laughing because it’s such a lie,” Kovalenko said. “The Russian government and Russian soldiers, they are killing Ukrainians. [Russian athletes] physically cannot be neutral athletes. They represent the current government. We, as a sport, become part of the propaganda.”

World Aquatics president Husain Al Musallam has defended the move, saying the organisation was determined to ensure that “pools and open water remain places where athletes from all nations can come together in peaceful competition”.

Russia’s return to the Sydney tournament is viewed by some as a sign that athletes could be fully reintegrated into future Olympic competition, including the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics or potentially the 2032 Brisbane games.

The International Olympic Committee recently recommended lifting restrictions on Belarusian athletes, while continuing to maintain sanctions against Russia linked to anti-doping concerns. But it has said that “athletes’ participation in international competition should not be limited by the actions of their governments, including involvement in a war or conflict”.

Argyrou said the Russian national water polo system drew heavily from clubs historically and institutionally linked to the armed forces and the state security apparatus.

“How could Russian national teams be allowed back into international competition when nothing has changed since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion?” she said.

“Every day, Russia continued to commit war crimes, perpetrate systematic human rights violations in occupied territories and conduct attacks on civilians.”

She said having Russians play also risked undermining the principled support Australia has shown for Ukraine. The federal government has sanctioned more than 1300 individuals and hundreds of entities connected to Russia and it has repeatedly framed support for Ukraine as a defence of international law.

Since the invasion, Australia has committed about $1.7 billion in assistance to Ukraine.

Water Polo Australia said the Sydney event had been secured before Russia’s reinstatement and any questions of its involvement should be directed to World Aquatics.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/part-of-the-propaganda-canberra-urged-to-block-russian-athletes-over-ties-to-sanctioned-oligarchs-20260526-p600t7.html

READ FROM TOP AGAIN... NATO COUNTRIES SHOULD BE THE ONE BEING SANCTIONED.

PLEASE VISIT:

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

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POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

RABID ATHEIST.

WELCOME TO THIS INSANE WORLD….

By Gus Leonisky at 31 May 2026 - 10:26am
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Zelensky’s fascism fetish is booming, and the West is still (mostly) okay with it

The Ukrainian leader is exploiting his own Jewishness to promote the normalization of fascism – a stunning intellectual and moral perversion

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

It’s hard to believe one’s eyes while witnessing the latest performance put on by the comedian tyrant of Ukraine.

Within the space of a week or so, the regime of president-for-eternity-no-elections-needed Vladimir Zelensky has repatriated and reburied with pomp and ceremony the remains of Andrey Melnik, a twentieth-century Ukrainian fascist leader and Nazi collaborator, and named a contemporary military elite unit “Heroes of the UPA” (the Ukrainian Insurgent Army of World War Two).

The UPA was, in effect, the military arm of the OUN, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The OUN had two political wings that mattered, one under Andrey Melnik, the other under Stepan Bandera. They were rivals, but both were fascists.

During the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, both OUN wings tried to collaborate with the Nazis. The Nazis, in their arrogance, did not always let them, but the whole OUN was very eager to please. The OUN and the UPA also participated in murderous German violence against Jews, serving as pro-active mass murder auxiliaries. In addition, they conducted a genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign of their own against Poles.

Predictably, the in-your-face obscenity of Kiev’s latest fascism worship has provoked Israel as well as Poland. Polish president Nawrocki would like to deprive Zelensky of the high state honors that Warsaw has foolishly bestowed on him and has threatened to curtail Poland’s support for Kiev’s EU ambitions. In Israel, both its official Holocaust remembrance and exploitation agency Yad Vashem and the foreign ministry have taken exception. That is, of course, ironic, since Israel itself engages obsessively in genocide and ethnic cleansing as well. Maybe, in this case, it takes a genocidal fascist to know one.

Official Kiev is in the middle of devastating corruption scandals – but to be fair, when is it not? – and shaken by mortifying revelations about Zelensky personally (surprise, surprise: a raging narcissist on coke and not a democrat but a kleptocrat) from a well-informed insider speaking to one of America’s most influential journalists. Yet its ruling clique finds time to really rub it in, again. How much it cannot stop hugging Nazis, dead and alive? Costs in foreign-policy terms? Apparently, no big deal: When the Nazi-loving urge itches really bad, to hell with caution and – very unusually for Kiev – even dissembling.

Some observers speculate that the fascism fetish is being escalated in public again because of the scandals and continually plunging popularity of the regime: Zelensky and the rest of his merry gang of war profiteers and proxy war meatgrinder jockeys, such commentators believe, are merely using the Nazi play “out of a position of weakness,” to distract from the unprecedently fetid swamp into which they have turned Ukraine’s sleazy politics.

This is a mistake. It is time that even the slowest in the West accept a simple truth about Zelensky, one he is not even hiding (like so many others): He genuinely likes fascists. And, with his extremely cynical manipulation techniques, his vicious persecution of political opposition and any dissent, his abuse of the mass media for propaganda, and his deep contempt for democracy, he has much heartfelt affinity with them, to say the least.

Silly – and, actually, racist – pseudo-arguments, advanced by Western proxy war boosters that Zelensky can’t possibly ally with a violent far-right because he is Jewish deserve no serious answer. The current Israeli regime and its policies of war, genocide, supremacy, and ethnic cleansing are fascist. Case closed.

In fact, the Zelensky regime has a longstanding, consistent habit of pandering to, working with, employing at high levels and on a large scale, and honoring the very far right. Some may love to quibble, in bored-academic-style, about pedantically precise terms for fine distinctions in one big pile of rottenness. But, in reality, those labeled Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, fascists, ultra-nationalists and so on form a large whole having much more in common than not.

e-labelling has also served to spread big fat lies. In Ukraine, there is a long and foul tradition, reaching back far into the frozen depths of the first Cold War. Mendaciously re-packaging Ukrainian World War II fascists with their own bloody flavor of terror, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. But re-labelling these Ukrainian fascists as ‘integral nationalists’ makes about as much sense as calling Idi Amin Dada – the former ultraviolent dictator of Uganda rumored to have sampled a few of his victims – an ‘integral vegan.’

And so it is in the present, too. Play with words as much as you like, a fact remains a fact, that Zelensky’s Ukraine is state with a big fascism problem. In time, its roots reach back to the period between World Wars I and II, with a massive escalation during the latter. Regionally, it used to be concentrated in western Ukraine and, after the Soviet victory over the Nazis and Axis forces in 1945, among fugitives in the US, Canada, and Europe. There, with their brand of ready-to-kill fascist anti-Communism, they served the West in the first Cold War and systematically subverted Ukrainian communities and any institution they could buy their way into, such as Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this self-declared Ukrainian ‘diaspora’ – ironically, a term popularized out of the same Israel-envy that produced an unseemly urge to politically claim a Holocaust of one’s own in the shape of the Holodomor (preferably with even bigger victim counts) – re-entered independent Ukraine and “repatriated” its ideology. They impaired Ukraine’s culture and politics with, unfortunately, great success.

In that, long-term sense, Zelensky and his regime’s sympathy for the fascist devil is part of a deeper story. Yet Zelensky’s personal contribution is not merely substantial but crucial. First because he has simply gone much farther than any post-independent leader of Ukraine in making fascism part of a deeply sick new normality. And second, because in our world of often imbecilic identity politics, he has, in effect, exploited his Jewishness to promote the normalization of fascism. It is hard to imagine a greater intellectual and moral perversion. But then again, it’s Zelensky. [GUS: AND MI6]

https://www.rt.com/news/640771-zelensky-fascism-fetish-west/