Ukrainians🇺🇦 in Kherson hold a rally in defiance of Russian🇷🇺 troops occupying the city, 13 days into the invasion.

"The only thing that can provoke Russia into a hostile and vigorous response is the expansion of NATO to the Baltic states."

-Joe Biden as a Senator in 1997. Why identify a danger and its violent consequences, and then actively seek to try and make it happen?

'What we've seen...is that Putin is willing to engage in hideous amounts of violence...we need some kind of negotiated settlement and that likely involves...a commitment that Ukraine won't join NATO'

-Prof. James Robinson of the Uni of Chicago

WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/3evY2Ux8TxI

In the EU/UK? Watch here: https://odysee.com/@GoingUndergroundRT:0/ukraine%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%A6-negotiated-settlement-on:c

#Ukraine #Russia

On this day in 1945, the US launched Operation Meetinghouse, where B-29 bombers firebombed Japan’s🇯🇵 capital of Tokyo. The night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of WW2, with approx. 100,000 deaths and a million people left homeless.

Russia's🇷🇺 University of St. Petersburg, will expel at least 13 students who were detained at the anti-war protests that have erupted across the country. More expulsion orders are expected. (Source: Kommersant Business Daily). Almost 14000 Russians have been arrested at anti-war protests

It’s not war crimes when we do it!

'Those global powers that resisted the sanctions more than anyone else were China🇨🇳 and Russia🇷🇺'

Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran on US sanctions on Iran

WATCH HERE: https://odysee.com/IranRussiaUkraine:35ab0a3a9cdb2786b2af0f0ce07bb0f7871162df

'It is an exaggerated response that has not been duplicated in other comparable situations such as the invasion of Iraq in 2003'

-Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Richard Falk on double standards over Ukraine & the Middle East

WATCH HERE: https://odysee.com/@GoingUndergroundRT:0/SAT-INTERVIEW-2:0

On this day in 2013, Xi Jinping is named the new President of China🇨🇳. Since then:

-100 million lifted out of extreme poverty

-extreme poverty completely eliminated

-GDP grew 6.4% a year from 2013-2020, accounting for 30% of global economic growth

-From 2013-2020, total trade volume between China and the 147 countries+territories part of the Belt and Road Initiative amounted to $9.2 trillion

-China’s installed renewable energy capacity of 895GW by 2020, larger than the next five nations combined (🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵=809GW)

Ukrainians in the city of Kherson rallied to protest against occupying Russian soldiers this weekend

Surely with this much public resistance, an occupation of Ukraine is completely untenable and a major miscalculation by the Russian government?

#Ukraine🇺🇦 #Russia🇷🇺