“Iran's supreme leader criticizes US on Ukraine crisis "The United States is a regime that lives on crises ..., in my view, Ukraine is a victim of the crises concocted by the US," said Khamenei.” https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-698987
On November 3, 2021 Aljazeera reported “Russia has 90,000 troops near Ukraine border, Kyiv says Ukrainian defence ministry says Moscow has left military units along the frontier after recent training exercises.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/3/russia-has-90000-troops-near-ukraine-border-kyiv-says
Aljazeera also reported on February 1, 2022, “Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops near its borders with Ukraine, prompting Western leaders to accuse Moscow of preparing an invasion of its neighbour and to warn of severe consequences if it invades.
Russia insists it has no plans to attack and has instead put forward proposals it says would ease tensions.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/1/us-using-ukraine-as-tool-to-contain-russia-putin
One would have to question why Russia felt it needed so many troops at the Ukraine border considering they weren’t war mongering and living peaceably with Russia. Why would Russia make claims they had no intention of invading Ukraine on February 1, 2022 and invade on February 24, 2022?
Aljazeera reported on February 24, 2022 ” Putin launches multi-pronged attack on Ukraine: How did the invasion start and what has happened so far?” … “On Thursday morning, Putin said he had authorised military action to defend itself against what he said were threats emanating from Ukraine.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/explainer-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-what-we-know-so-far
Ukraine has a population of 44.6 million people and Russia 145.5 million. Russia has approximately sixty-six percent more people than Ukraine. According to Wikipedia “The Russian Armed Forces are one of the world's largest military forces, with around a million active-duty personnel, which is the world's fifth-largest, and at least 2 million reserve personnel.[8][9] It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 18–27 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces.[10] … As the world's second-most powerful military, “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces “Following hostilities with Russia, Ukraine increased the size of its armed forces to 204,000 soldiers (+46,000 civil servants) in 2014, not counting additional military forces such as the border guards (53,000), the newly formed National Guard of Ukraine (60,000) or the security service.[10] The current size of Ukraine's armed forces, which consists of 250,000 (215,000 military personnel), is the second largest in the region after the Russian Armed Forces.[11] In 2022, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered to increase the size of the forces by 100,000 by 2025, while ending conscription in 2024. Conscription will be replaced with short-term intensive military training.[12]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine:~:text=The%20current%20size%20of%20Ukraine%27s%20armed%20forces%2C%20which,100%2C000%20by%202025%2C%20while%20ending%20conscription%20in%202024.
With such a vast difference between population size and military strength why is Russia afraid of Ukraine? They were not warmongering. To say they fear Ukraine is ludicrous.
For the Supreme Leader of Iran to state that “Ukraine is a victim of the crises concocted by the US” is just as ludicrous.
The Bible states 2 Timothy 3:13 New American Standard Bible 1995 “13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5 New American Standard Bible 1995 “3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.”
The United States and the west could have done things differently. But they weren’t amassing troops at Russia or Ukraine’s borders. Ukraine is suffering from a power play by one man, Vladimir Putin. That is evil.
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