Russian Troops Never Intended to Capture Kiev – Putin
Russian forces did not plan to storm Kiev when they advanced towards the Ukrainian capital in the first weeks of the conflict between the two countries, President Vladimir Putin has said.
During a meeting with his Russia’s top diplomats on Friday, Putin noted continued “speculation” in Ukraine and the West about the intentions of Russian units when they reached the outskirts of Kiev in late February 2022.
“But there was no political decision to storm the city of 3 million, no matter what anyone says due to their lack of thought,” Putin insisted.
According to the president, the Russian advance towards Kiev was “nothing more than an operation to persuade the Ukrainian regime to [make] peace.”
“The troops were there to motivate the Ukrainian side to engage in negotiations, to try to find an acceptable solution and this way end the war unleashed by Kiev against Donbass back in 2014,” he said.
The conflict between the Ukrainian government and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which erupted after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in February 2014, “posed a threat to the security of our country, to the security of Russia,” Putin stressed.
The move by Russia did result in talks that led to agreements that “in principle, suited both Moscow and Kiev,” he said, referring to the negotiations that took place between the two sides in the Turkish city of Istanbul in late March 2022.
“On March 29, 2022, we withdrew our troops from Kiev because we were assured that it was essential to create conditions for the conclusion of the political negotiating process,” the president recalled. “Our Western colleagues”insisted back then that the Ukrainian authorities “cannot sign such agreements… with a gun to their head,” he added.
However, Kiev and its Western backers have been claiming that the Russian withdrawal from the area of the Ukrainian capital was not a goodwill gesture by Moscow, but the result of military successes achieved by Kiev’s troops. Already in April 2022, US President Joe Biden said “the ‘Battle of Kiev’ was a historic victory… won by the Ukrainian people with unprecedented assistance by the US and our allies.”
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New GOP Bill Would Ban Gov’t DEI Hires, Prevent Funding to Diversity Initiatives
(LifeSiteNews) — Republican U.S. representatives on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban all so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hires and promotions in the federal government as well as required assent to the DEI principle of “oppressed” and “privileged” classes.
The Washington Free Beacon referred to the Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas, as “the most comprehensive legislative effort yet” to eliminate DEI initiatives from the federal government. The bill would also nix federal grant funding to diversity initiatives and bar accreditation agencies “from requiring DEI in schools,” the Beacon reported.
“The DEI agenda is a destructive ideology that breeds hatred and racial division,” Vance told the Washington Free Beacon. “It has no place in our federal government or anywhere else in our society.”
Diversity training has “exploded” in the federal government since President Joe Biden took office in 2020, the Beacon noted, with all federal agencies now mandating a form of DEI training.
A prime example of the absurd and counterproductive lengths to which DEI trainings can go is a training video leaked from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that instructs employees that using the term “person who is pregnant” is “inclusive and preferred to ‘pregnant women.’”
Both these trainings and the DEI offices that conduct them would be wiped out by the Dismantle DEI Act. It would also prevent the staff fired in the process from being transferred or reassigned, in order to put a hard stop to all DEI initiatives under any name.
The Beacon also points out that the legislation goes a step further than previously proposed anti-DEI bills by eliminating requirements to keep tabs on the racial makeup of employees, for example, as well as requirements to collect data on the“diversity and inclusion efforts” of federal agencies.
Remarkably, if passed, the legislation could save the federal government billions of dollars, given that the Biden administration has spent over $16 million on diversity training in 2023 for government staff alone. Biden’s State Department sought another whopping $83 million for DEI programs last year that was slammed at the time by a Republican congressional aide as “useless.”
“Woke ideology and culturally en vogue but diplomatically useless DEI notions have come to penetrate every last inch of the State Department,” the aide toldNational Review. “Every office, and every process, has been colonized by this way of thinking. The new budget proposal reflects this.”
DEI initiatives have long been widely denounced by conservatives and moderates as divisive, but they have been coming under increasing fire for undermining the competence and most basic functioning of public institutions and private corporations, even putting lives at risk.
For example, some commentators have blamed growing – and at times catastrophic and fatal – airplane safety failures in part on DEI hires and policies. Upon the revelation that a doctor at Duke Medical School was “abandoning… all sort(s) of metrics” in hiring surgeons in order to implement DEI practice, Elon Musk warned that “people will die” because of DEI.
He elaborated on X, “If the standards for passing medical exams and becoming a doctor, or especially something like a surgeon – if the standards are lowered, then the probability that the surgeon will make a mistake is higher. (If) they’re making mistakes in their exam, they may make mistakes with people and that may result in people dying.”
“DEI destroys competence while making Americans into enemies,” commented Arthur Milikh, director of the Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life, a conservative group backing the bill. “This ideology must be fought, and its offices removed.”