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2023-06-29

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1. “Thirdly, the Russian Federation is continuing to bomb Ukrainian cities, including Kramatorsk just yesterday, where the Russian Federation, by way of a missile strike, destroyed civilian infrastructure, specifically a restaurant, resulting in the death of innocent civilians, including three children. Fourthly, the Russian Federation has been so bold as to demand that the West not supply Ukraine with weapons to defend itself against a treacherous attack. Fortunately, the Security Council is capable of differentiating between truth and lies, between those defending themselves from aggression and those who wage wars of aggression, and between those who are truly peace-loving and those who are hiding behind lofty statements about striving for peace but actually think only of war.”

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2. “The great Carl von Clausewitz, who incidentally served in the Russian army during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, once noted that the aggressor “is always peace-loving”. That is, the aggressor would gladly invade its neighbours peacefully unless it will meet with organized resistance. (spoke in Russian) Clausewitz was right. Russian complaints regarding external support for Ukraine do not detract from the following facts. First, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine on trumped-up reasons, not the opposite. Secondly, the Russian Federation continues to violate international law by waging a war of aggression against a neighbouring State.”

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3. “Unprovoked invasions have happened before. They tend to have consequences, one of which is the tendency of the invaded party to resist the invader and ask for outside assistance. This idea was enshrined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which is a provision that sadly no one has shown to Sergei Lavrov, and speaks of “the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence”. It is by that inherent right that Ukraine has turned to the world with a plea for help. It is by that inherent right that so many nations have contributed to Ukraine’s defence by sending much needed military aid. If anything, those nations have not gone far enough, for Russia continues to occupy internationally recognized Ukrainian territory posing a great threat to international peace and security.”

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4. “Without them, the Soviet Union would have most certainly been overrun by the Third Reich, the United Nations would never have won and Mr. Max Blumenthal and Mr. Chay Bowes would never have joined us today to tell us about the very heavy, completely unacceptable burden of supporting freedom. Why are we doing this, Mr. Blumenthal asks rhetorically. The answer is so that Mr. Bowes can come here and tell us how terrible it is to support a victim of unprovoked aggression, how terrible it is to help people under attack, how terrible it is to resist imperialist conquest. I am a historian, and historians bring the past to the present in order to gain a better understanding of what the future may hold. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a historically unprecedented development. Wars of aggression have happened before.”

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5. “Between 1941 and 1945, the United States provided the Soviet Union with $11 billion worth of aid, which is over $200 billion in today’s dollars — an amount second only to that provided to the United Kingdom. That aid included over 14,000 airplanes; 12,000 armoured vehicles, including 7,000 tanks; over 8,000 artillery pieces, including anti-aircraft weapons; over 400,000 jeeps and trucks and 197 torpedo boats. Policymakers in Berlin may well have been concerned at the time that such an ambitious effort by the United States prolonged the war because it made it more difficult for Germany to defeat and enslave the Soviet Union. But it is worth reiterating that those supplies were the Soviet Union’s lifeline.”

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6. “The Japanese armies brutally fought their way across China. The Chinese Government appealed for international help and received it. None other than Moscow provided China with hundreds of aircraft and even pilots who played a crucial role in the Chinese resistance effort, in particular in the Battle of Wuhan, in the spring of 1938. Were it not for Soviet and, later, American help, the aggressor would have triumphed, and China would have fallen. After the Second World War broke out in Europe and German armies laid waste to neighbouring countries, the United States stepped up to the task, both by committing its troops and also, crucially, by providing Lend-Lease aid to those countries fighting against Hitler’s aggression, including the Soviet Union.”

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7. “That list exists; it is called the Charter of the United Nations, and here is what it says in Article 2, paragraph 4: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other matter inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.” The United Nations Charter was signed on 26 June 1945, in the wake of the most destructive war the world has ever seen — a war of those who sought to enslave the world by conquest and brutality against those who stood up against aggression, who fought shoulder to shoulder for their freedom and dignity. In July 1937, after several years of gradual encroachment through the creation of various puppet State, imperial Japan invaded the Republic of China.”

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8. “Mr. Radchenko: It is an honour to speak to the Council and to follow such eloquent presentations. Russia is conducting a war of aggression against Ukraine, a terrible war that has already cost many tens of thousands of lives. Russia has resorted to indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Its troops have committed atrocities, including torture, rape and killing. Russia has violated the principles of the United Nations, which it helped craft at the end of the Second World War. Just yesterday, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, claimed in an interview that no one has ever sent him the list of rules for the rules-based international order.”

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