by Aleksandar Sarovic, The Duran:
The war in Ukraine reminds me of the war in my homeland Yugoslavia. In 2013, the elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, accepted cooperation with Russia as more suitable for Ukraine than cooperation with the EU. This triggered a highly violent demonstration of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists on Maidan square in Kyiv. Please see a short adaptation of Oliver Stone’s Ukraine on Fire. Western countries endorsed the criminal coup, which made independent intellectuals associate the coup with America.
Both Sweden and Finland have applied for membership within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization this week, with both countries ending their long-standing policy of neutrality. On Wednesday, several NATO members announced they would immediately extend NATO-like military defense to both Finland and Sweden. In 
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