blog de Mario Daniel

  The conflict that officially started on February 24, 2022, is now rapidly approaching the one-year mark. Since the very beginning, Vladimir Putin lied to the world . He first said that his only intentions were to protect Russian-speaking populations in the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk. This proved not true as Russian forces have been consistently bombing civilian populations in central, northern, and even western Ukraine, also using their highly deadly hypersonic missiles . At the beginning of his genocidal mission, when Putin and his warmongers thought that invading and annexing Ukraine would be a walk in the park , the Russian president said he wanted to “denazify” Ukraine. A very unfortunate expression by the former KGB agent: from day 1 the whole world realized that Putin had become the 21st century Adolf Hitler . Sadly, years before the world had let Putin walk free and unsanctioned with his unlawful annexation of the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 . Fortu...

  The invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia is today 7 months old.  These are a few of the opinions I have been posting on social networks even before the Russian invasion began. This saga begins in 2014 when suddenly, and without prior notice, Putin sent his troops to invade and annex the Crimea peninsula that so far Russia had been leasing from Ukraine. At the time, the NATO countries and the USA refused to see the danger. Some even said,  “Well, after all, the Crimea peninsula had always been Russia’s” . Then in February 2022 Putin started to pile up tanks and troops along the Russian-Ukrainian and Belarus-Ukrainian borders. One had to be too dumb not to see it coming. Putin tried to fool the world with allegedly joint military exercises  with the Belarus’ puppet regime. It was clear then that Russia’s real intentions were to get ready for the invasion with the excuse to defend the Eastern Ukraine Russian-speaking separatist provinces. At first the West washed...