May 12, 2023
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Ukraine, the Neoconservatives and the LGBTQ Global
Agenda
Friends,
I pass on below three informative articles. They
originate from BREIBART News, REUTERS, and BUSINESS INSIDER; and they detail
the acceptance of same sex couples in the Ukrainian Army, and, indeed, the
growing acceptance of even trans ideology in Ukraine (including statements made
by V. Zelensky that he will “revisit” the issue). No doubt, the large degree of
American control and influence has much to do with this. When our benighted
nation, through its foreign policy tentacles, wants something done in our
client countries (which Ukraine has become), then it gets done, whether the
native population wants it or not. What matters for the US is if the Elites in
those countries act when our globalists demand they act.
No wonder that the Far Left pushes frenetic and
unquestioning support for the ex-porno clown Zelensky's
regime (at the expense of the Ukrainian people). Everything our foreign policy
wonks touch and then dominate becomes rotten, infected by evil. Our record, whether
in Bosnia, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan...or now in Ukraine, is one
of unrelieved destruction of traditional cultures and morality, religious faith
and belief, and the imposition of a foul global hegemony, intolerantly pagan
and Godless, all in the name of “liberal democracy.”
Hundreds of thousands of Christians, in some of the most ancient Christian communities in the world in Iraq and Syria, have been massacred or displaced by American military intervention or the use of American-armed client terrorist groups (recall the late and unlamented John McCain’s embrace of ISIS-affiliated terrorists in Syria). The fanatical ideological zeal of the dominant foreign policy Neoconservatives to construct a secular world, controlled by an anti-Christian globalist elite (e.g. World Economic Forum, EU, NATO, UN, etc.), and their scarcely disguised hatred for Western Christianity are eerie carry-overs from—a reminder of—their internationalist Trotskyite roots.
Indeed, for many Neocons does not their secular
globalism in a way actually invert the salvific promises made to Israel in the
Old Testament, especially as many of the leading Neoconservatives have Eastern
European and Russian Jewish descent—and lingering memories of “bad old Russia”
and historic Christian prejudice?
A remarkable admission of this genealogy came in 2007, in the
pages of the once-conservative National Review. Here one finds the
expression of sympathies clearly imported from the onetime Far Left and
presented by contributor Stephen Schwartz: “To my last breath, I will defend
Trotsky who alone and pursued from country to country and finally laid low in
his own blood in a hideously hot house in Mexico City, said no to Soviet
coddling to Hitlerism, to the Moscow purges, and to the betrayal of the Spanish
Republic, and who had the capacity to admit that he had been wrong about the
imposition of a single-party state as well as about the fate of the Jewish
people. To my last breath, and without apology.” (See Paul
Gottfried, “Dancing on a Hero’s Grave,” Takimag.com, May 29, 2007.)
Over the decades since the 1960s, the Neocons
migrated to a more conservative and anti-Communist viewpoint, supposedly due to
their opposition to anti-semitic Stalinism, but actually in reality more because
of their fear and hatred of nationalism. By the 1990s they were in virtual
control of what has become known as “ConInc,” AKA Establishment “conservatism
incorporated.” Older conservatives—paleoconservatives and Southern
traditionalists—were exiled to the ineffectual margins.
In 2016 Donald Trump (perhaps not fully aware of
his role) threatened that consensus, and for that reason he had to be savaged,
denounced, impeached, defeated. He had, to quote Hillary Clinton, unleashed
“the Deplorables,” the MAGA Nation, which proceeded to gain back swathes of the
conservative grass roots.
Still, many Republicans, especially those most
prominently in the DC Uniparty, remain joined at the hip with the fanatical
Left in support of far too many shared nostrums, most especially a zealous globalism
and disastrous American overreach, and inflicting new “civil rights” on the
American citizenry (which were little more than new layers of immorality).
And the expansion of American hegemony globally brings
with it the necessity on the part of newly-submissive client states to dismantle
and discard their religious and moral traditions. Thus, our embassies around
the world often symbolically fly
“Gay Pride” flags, while our foreign aid packages are tied to abolishing or
removing “inequities” against “oppressed” groups, such as homosexuals, women,
and trans people…and all the while dozens of NGOs work feverishly on the ground
to change views on a variety of questions: all in the name of implanting the
fruits and benefits of “liberal democracy.”
Thus, we should not be surprised at what is
occurring in Ukraine: growing support for same sex marriage, the advent of active
LGBTQ organizations, and the rise of support for them. After all the United
State foreign policy establishment was largely responsible for the February
2014 coup d’etat that installed an American puppet regime in Kiev. And,
certainly, the price for becoming an American minion is implementing the agenda
that whoring regimes must accept.
Read on.
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Ukraine
Debuts LGBTQ ‘Unicorn’ Troops
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2022/05/31/ukraine-debuts-lgbtq-unicorn-troops/
Ukraine’s gay, lesbian, and transgender military volunteers are
adding an official unicorn patch to their uniforms, right under the national
flag.
The patch is meant as a
rebuke to Russian rhetoric about “de-Nazification” and Russian rhetoric about
excluding homosexuals in the military forces of former Soviet territories
[e.g., Russia] The unicorn patch became popular with Ukraine’s LGBTQ community
after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Since there were supposedly no gay
soldiers in the Russian army, gays sarcastically chose the mythological unicorn
as their symbol.
Germany’s Deutsche
Welle (DW) reported last summer that
Ukrainian soldiers began coming out in greater numbers in 2018, including those
deployed to fight Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Even then, gay
Ukrainian troops thought identifying themselves could help counter Russian
propaganda about fascists running Kyiv.
“One of our aims is to expose
the lies of Russian propaganda myths that claim Ukraine is being ruled by a
‘neo-Nazi junta.’ How could there be talk of neo-Nazis in an army that has many
gay-friendly units, and in which gay and lesbian active-duty and veteran
service members can come out without fear?” Viktor Pylypenko, founder of a
group called Ukrainian LGBT Soldiers, told DW in June 2021.
Similar sentiments were
expressed by “unicorn” troops who spoke to Reuters on
Tuesday. They said there was “no aggression, no bullying” when they volunteered
for front-line duty against the Russian invaders, and their commanders said
homophobia would not be tolerated. “The thing I’m worried about is that in
case I get killed during this war, they won’t allow Antonina to bury me the way
I want to be buried. They’d rather let my mum bury me with the priest reading
silly prayers … But I am an atheist and I don’t want that,” one of the unicorn
soldiers said, referring to his transgender partner.
LGBTQ recruits say they are deeply
concerned with the repression they would face from Russia if Ukraine is
conquered. They point to the harsh treatment of gays in Donbas, where
separatists aligned with Russia-controlled towns and cities before the massive
Russian invasion began in February, and the vicious treatment of gays by
Russia’s Chechen allies. Whatever complaints about discrimination gay
Ukrainians had before the war, they seem to be in agreement that life under
Russian rule would be worse.
“The LGBTQ+ community in
Ukraine is in huge danger should Russia win. If Russia wins, it means darkness.
There will be no freedom, no opportunity to be yourself, no rights for diverse
communities,” territorial defense volunteer Vlad Shast told Forbes in March.
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Ukraine's 'unicorn'
LGBTQ soldiers head for war
https://www.aol.com/news/ukraines-unicorn-lgbtq-soldiers-head-071702718-144234922.html
HORACI
GARCIA May 31, 2022, 9:42 AM
KYIV (Reuters) - As
volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to
active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a
rare distinction - a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are
Ukrainian soldiers.
Members of Ukraine's LGBTQ
community who sign up for the war have taken to sewing the image of the
mythical beast into their standard-issue epaulettes just below the national
flag. The practice harks back to the 2014 conflict when Russia invaded then
annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, "when lots of people said
there are no gay people in the army," actor, director and drama teacher
Zhuhan told Reuters as he and Romanova dressed in their apartment for their
second three-month combat rotation. "So they (the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and queer community) chose the unicorn because it is like a fantastic
'non-existent' creature."
Zhuhan and Romanova, who
identifies as a non-binary person with she/her pronouns and moved to the
capital from Crimea after being displaced in 2014, met through their theatre
work.
Neither was trained in the use of
weapons but, after spending a couple of days hiding in their bathroom at the
start of the war, decided they had to do more. "I just remember that at a
certain point it became obvious that we only had three options: either hide in
a bomb shelter, run away and escape, or join the Territorial Defence
(volunteers). We chose the third option," Romanova said.
Russia says its forces are on a
"special operation" to demilitarise Ukraine and rid it of radical anti-Russian
nationalists. Ukraine and its allies call that a false pretext for a war of
aggression.
For Zhuhan and Romanova, their
vocation gives them an added sense of responsibility. "Because what Russia
does is they don't just take our territories and kill our people. They want to
destroy our culture and... we can't allow this to happen," Zhuhan said.
Their first tour of duty around
Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, about 135 km (80 miles) from the port of Odesa,
changed their lives. They fought in the same unit and found it terrifying,
Zhuhan contracted pneumonia, but, the couple says, their fellow
fighters accepted them. "There was no aggression, no
bullying... It was a little unusual for the others. But, over time, people
started calling me Antonina, some even used my she pronoun," Romanova
said. [....]
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A gay
Ukrainian military couple engaged only days ago is being pulled apart to face
the fear and heartache of combat alone
- A gay Ukrainian military couple that got
engaged only days ago is heading off into combat.
- Pasha, 21, and Vladyslav, 30, met a year
ago and fell in love as war consumed their homeland.
- The couple told Insider that while war is
tough, they haven't let go of hope.
Throughout the past year,
thousands of Ukrainians have left their homes and former lives to fight against
Russia's invasion. They've had to say goodbye to families and friends, unsure
if they'd ever see them again. And as bloody battles rage on, Ukrainians have
been forced to watch in horror as the war tears apart the country they once
knew.
One couple has navigated much of
the war with an added layer of concern: They're both fighting in the Ukrainian
military.
In this war that has already
claimed tens of thousands of lives, tragedy can strike in an instant. Pasha and
Vladyslav, a newly engaged couple, are on their way into combat, but they won't
be together. It's a tough time for the pair as Russian President Vladimir Putin
continues his campaign, though it faces struggles, to break Ukraine's defenses
and enforce his unwanted vision for the country's future.
They
worry for each other's safety, partially because they serve in separate
battalions and areas. "It is very difficult," Vladyslav told Insider,
but if they were able to see each other more, or possibly fight alongside one
another, it'd make the days a bit easier. Currently, Vladyslav's trying to
switch to Pasha's unit. "We'd like to do the job together," he said,
but "it's hard to change battalions."
The
young gay couple began dating last year after Russia launched its invasion of
Ukraine.
They
told Insider, courtesy of translator Maxim Potapovych, that they met on a
dating app. That's pretty common for many modern couples, and at first glance, Pasha
and Vladyslav's relationship is like any other.
They
share pictures together on Instagram, some selfies of them making dinner and
cuddling. In the past year, they've celebrated birthdays and anniversaries.
Vladyslav turned 30 last September, with Pasha commemorating 21 just a few
weeks later. "You're already 21 years old, what can I say..." he
wrote on Instagram, "So as not to be dead by 22."
The
harsh realities of their situation in a war-torn country are hard to miss.
One
picture, posted by Pasha, shows the two holding hands while wearing their
military uniforms. Another post details a vacation they took together. Pasha
wrote, "These 10 days of my vacation have been better than half of my life
before the war! You know when you weren't around before, I didn't care about
life or death, whether to be shot or shoot."
Just
days before the pair deployed for combat operations, Pasha and Vladyslav got
engaged. Pasha said there was sort of an ultimatum in play: it was either get
engaged or leave one another. They chose to stay together, and they celebrated
as much as possible before the war called them back.
On
Friday, their last day in Kyiv, Pasha and Vladyslav told Insider it's been
difficult to fight in the war because it constantly tries to pull them away from
one another. And the combat is intense, no matter how much time you've
spent on the battlefield. Pasha says the fighting feels like entering a
"volcano." He said that "if he could describe it simply,"
he would say that a "normal, city person" has suddenly been thrown
into a new environment where the heat, pressure, and sweat of battle can be
overwhelming.
Pasha
joined the military in 2021 and is now a gunner. Vladyslav joined last year.
Though neither told anyone they were gay, Pasha recalled experiencing
homophobia and discrimination from the other soldiers in his first few weeks at
a training camp. Ukraine freely admits gay soldiers, something that would never
happen in Russia.
Before
Russia invaded, Ukraine's stance on LGBTQ rights was murky. Gay marriage and
adoption weren't legal, and although they still aren't, President
Volodymyr Zelensky has since
promised same-sex
civil partnerships could be revisited after the war. There was also varying public
opinion on gender and sexual orientation, although anti-discrimination
laws in
Ukraine offered some protection, and homosexual relations weren't legal in
Ukraine until 1991.
The
atmosphere, especially in the military, has improved, the couple told Insider.
There's a mutual respect of sorts, a realization that they're all fighting for
the same cause regardless of sexual orientation.
That
said, LGBTQ personnel don't yet have the same benefits as their heterosexual
counterparts. When Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun submitted a draft to legalize
same-sex partnership in early March, she noted that if an LGBTQ person is
injured in combat, their partner can't make decisions about their medical
treatment.
Pasha
and Vladyslav have talked about this issue, too.
In
a post for LGBTIQ Military — an organization of Ukrainian LGBTQ active military
members, veterans, and volunteers fighting for equal rights — the couple
expressed their support for legalizing same-sex partnerships. They wrote that
while they want to be able to marry, have children, and live happily together,
there are also more immediate concerns about not being legally recognized as a
couple. If one of them is injured, the other has no say in their
hospitalization and care. If one dies, the other won't be able to claim their
body, they said.
It's
a stark reality of both the war and LGBTQ rights. But Pasha and Vladyslav said
they're hoping for a better future for themselves. They see the war as a fight
against how Russia oppresses, how it treats its LGBTQ people — "full of
discrimination, killing activists," Vladyslav said.
Winning the war would mean
winning freedom, both for Ukrainians and LGBTQ people like Pasha and Vladyslav.
When Insider asked about the coming months of combat and how the couple is
feeling, Vladyslav held Pasha closely and said: "We strongly believe
Ukraine will win."
