Donna Mattis
3 min readJun 1, 2024

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Sir, you need to unplug from MSM. Russia is responding to the refusal to invoke the Minsk Agreement and the continued encroaching on its borders by NATO --- Ukraine needs to remain a neutral power. That was what was agreed on by Russia when the USSR ended --- that there would be respect for the territorial integrity of Russia's borders by NATO. Then the US overthrew Yanukovych and installed a puppet government. Then Ukraiane applied for NATO membership. There have been a series of sustained provocations since 2014 --- Putin responded.

As for naming a country etc. Didn't you see me say that the Russians won the war, freed the world? The war was won before America entered. The whole freaking Europe owes its freedom to the then USSR. Google is free --- go use it. The truth is not always what the West say.

Finally, it is hilarious that you have resorted to pathos --- debate lost? Playing the race card won't work with me. I speak unbridled truth to power. I'm well aware of how racist Russians and East Europeans, including Ukrainians are---Obans runs wild. But so is Western Europe. And I agree with you that racist Russia is even worse than the US --- and the US is very racist --- so too the UK. Ukrainians are rabid racists too. We saw how they treated African students when the war began. That Russia is racist, Sir doesn't escape me. I don't want Russia in Africa. Were it up to me they wouldn't be there, along with China and Europe who have all done nothing but rape Africa of it wealth and resources. They are all parasites sucking the blood of black people. Colonialism never died, Sir. It devolved into Neo-colonialism, so you can hold off with the dire you'll find out soon enough". It won't rattle my walls or shake my windows. I'm a black nationalist/Pan-Africanist, I devote my energies to emancipatory jounalism/activism to educate my people.

I'm well aware, so playing on my emotions by introducing race is no revelation --- you are preaching to the choir --- it won't work. I speak unfiltered truth to power. It is not personal or emotional but the FACTS! And the fact is the then USSR won the war and that there is context for the invasion of Ukraine. I will not ignore those historical facts simply because Russians are racists. The facts are the facts. If Ukraine was right I would say so too, even though Ukranians too are racist.

Ukraine's proposed membership in NATO, plus the installation of WMDs on it soil, so close to Moscow is a clear and present threat to Russian national security. It is no different from the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962 when Khrushchev installed weapons in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida, in the US. Kennedy had cause for concerns, because It was a threat to US national security --- at least the US thought and there was reasonable grounds. The situations are the same. Khrushchev backed down. Why didn't America with Ukraine? Why the double standard?

It is not personal for me, Sir. It never is. I support the Palestinian cause because it is a just one and the right thing to do, even though Arabs, including many Palestinians are racist. Hey, Arabs enslaved Africans and have revived the Arab Slave Trade in Libya, thanks to Obama and Hilary Clinton. I don't allow my emotions to cloud my judgement!

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Donna Mattis
Donna Mattis

Written by Donna Mattis

History/Politics degree/taught for a while/ once copywriter. On a journey of reclamation of Afrikan identity to the full restoration of African humanity.

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