Simon Kamati
Today, all European and US officials’ statements, as well as Western media materials on Ukraine, are began with the words “unjustified and unprovoked aggression.”
Many African “democrats” hypocritically support these theses. But let us see if the special military operation of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine is really unjustified and unprovoked.
Let us remember how it all began. Russia took a kind gesture in the 1990s and voluntary withdrew of armed forces from Europe. In response, Western countries violated their promises not to expand NATO to the east and conducted five waves of expansion, bringing its military infrastructure closer to Russian borders critically.
The military bloc forces were constantly growing in the eastern regions of Europe. NATO regularly held major exercises near the Russian borders and in the Black Sea. The Western leadership well aware that Moscow considers the North Atlantic Alliance as a direct military threat but refused listening to its calls to stop the approach to Russian borders and fix mutual security guarantees in a document.
On the contrary, the US and its allies have stepped up efforts to draw Russia’s neighbours, including Ukraine, into the alliance.
The West took the direct participation in the bloody coup in Kyiv to install pro-western regime and create from Ukraine aggressive anti-Russian state, oppressing the Russian-speaking population.
The Kyiv authorities allowed the creation of Nazi and neo-Nazi formations on their territory. Torchlight processions were held in the Ukrainian capital with portraits of the “national hero” - a henchman of the German fascists Stephan Bandera and anti-Russian slogans. Everybody can find the confirmation materials on the Internet!
The eastern Ukrainian regions and Crimea refused to recognize the neo-Nazi regime that came in the wake of the coup. Kyiv declared them terrorists and launched a military operation of the national armed forces against them. According to official figures because of hostilities since 2014, more than 15 000 civilians of Donbass were killed. Why were European, American and African human rights activists silent all these years of murders and atrocities? Is this democracy? According to their logic thousands pro-Russian people can be killed, by the way, as well as Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Serbs, etc.
I would like to ask today all the critics of the military operation in Ukraine - are not these facts the reason for Russia to protect its safety and the lives of the Russian-speaking residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. All sane person understand that Russia did not threaten NATO and Ukraine, especially after Cold War but they came to Russian doorstep with weapons and began to kill.
Western countries today are screaming about Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified aggression” and adding fuel to the fire by supplying Ukraine with more powerful and long-range weapons.
Thus, the West again provokes Moscow to “push” the frontline further and further from its borders in order to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics and Russian western regions.
Today, everyone can hear Russia’s calls to stop the uncontrolled supply of weapons to Ukraine. They have already led to its entry into the “black markets” of Europe. In the future, millions of arms could end up in the hands of terrorists in the Middle East and Africa, including Iraq, Syria and Libya. Russia alone is trying to stop this process and needs support from African countries like Moscow supported us during liberation struggle.
If you look into all the above facts in more detail, it will become clearer for any thinking person that Russia is conducting a justified and provoked military operation.
Anyone can project all events onto their own country and guess how their state will act in the situation of a military bloc approaching their home and genocide against brothers on the border.
For example, the reaction of a very self-respecting United States to the deployment of several Soviet missiles and a small number of troops near the American borders in Cuba in 1962 almost led to the Third World War. Why does this right not belong to all other nations?