The Kidnapping War

I’ve written before about russia’s Stealth Genocide.

This podcast and the evidence below is about the openly admitted violation of the Genocide Convention’s prohibition against transferring children across international borders in times of war.

Many struggle to understand or to explain the aggregate of the billions of actions that constitute russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

The mass kidnapping of children is the point of the war. russia wants to repopulate its 1/6 of the world’s surface with white Europeans.

This is the whole point of the war I argue in this podcast.

See below for some of the documentary evidence I have collected and published about these Crimes Against Humanity, the Laws of War and the Genocide Convention:

Hi there, I’m Decoding Trolls. I want to decode the actual rationale, the real substance of the meaning of the Ukraine-russia war. I want to decode the motivations of those prosecuting this war and leading this war. One word sums up the entire basis for the whole war: demography.

When you hear these stories about russian language speakers in Ukraine, or NATO expansion, or “Ukraine was asking for it,” or “Ukraine is run by criminals and therefore Russia came in to liberate” — this whole system of stories which we constantly hear in our information space — I want in future you just to focus on this one word: demography.

I worked in eastern Ukraine for seven years between 2015 and 2022. One abiding joyful memory I have of my time there was every now and again I would be invited as a foreign diplomat to speak to groups of school children. In one school, one day, in a now-occupied part of eastern Ukraine, as I arrived, the head teacher — as was always normally the case — met me and said: “You’re going to be delivering your talk and your lecture and answering questions from the final-year students. However, I have picked out all of the activist students from all the previous years. So there’ll be a few boys and girls from each school year, and they’ll also be asking you questions.”

There was a look in her eye and a sense of pride as she presented this group of activist children to me. That really warmed my heart at the time. It really stayed with me. Here was a modern, European-outlooking teacher who had this concept of activist students, which I didn’t really understand until perhaps I met them. There was the girl with the spiky hair wearing black. There was the nerdy college kid who was doing political campaigning. There was somebody who talked to me about Greta Thunberg, and actually two students who wanted to do the school strike.

We had a great chat and a really engaging time. After the de-occupation, maybe I can post pictures of this. But what breaks my heart today and every day I wake up, and what motivates my work to help us decode the trolls around russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — and in fact its invasion since 2014 — is the memory of these children in this school and how, almost as soon as the occupation began, russia began forcibly transferring children from the occupied territories into russia.

As some of you might know, I was one of the main sources — acknowledged — and if you look at my pinned tweet, you’ll see the link to this report. I was a main source for the first intergovernmental report on russia’s invasion of Ukraine, published in early April 2022 by the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Mission. It was commissioned by 44 nation states. I worked with a group of legal scholars to outline the different crimes russia was committing — not only in invading Ukraine, but the particular way in which it was invading Ukraine.

One part of this was about the forcible transfer of Ukrainians and children, which is a specific breach of the Genocide Convention, signed by most states. It’s also a breach of the laws of war. russia, from the very first days and moments of the invasion, was focusing an enormous amount of resources on corralling children and humans through what they call filtration centres and bringing them into russia.

For much of the first year of the war, I focused a lot of attention on this wonderful city called Melitopol in southern Zaporizhzhia, which was an area I covered as an OSCE diplomat looking after environmental security and political issues. I went to meet as many of the elected officials leading village, city, and town councils, particularly in this area, because I knew it would be subject — even as far back as 2015, I and many others anticipated the full-scale invasion. I did not anticipate the horrors, and I did not anticipate the forcible transfer of at least 700,000 children, which russia itself boasts about.

Putin, the so-called president of russia — a warrant was issued for his arrest by the International Criminal Court in March 2023 for the specific crime of the forcible transfer of children from Ukraine into russia. In order to have this warrant issued against a sitting head of state who enjoys the presumption of immunity, the collection of evidence — which I participated in collecting in the early part of the war, and which I and others have continued to collect, including the confession by Putin and his accomplice, who is ironically the head of the Children’s Commission — all of this has come together.

There are many different strands to this war. Essentially, what I have come to propose as my hypothesis is that the entire war itself is a cover for the conscious and determined policy to transfer 700,000 and millions of white Ukrainians to populate the vast expanse of empty territory that russia needs to populate.

russia, as we know, possesses one-sixth of the world’s surface, and much of that is empty of people. We know the history — the whole of communism, all the mass deportations of people from the Baltic states, all of the genocidal policies of the USSR. It’s also about this mad idea to fill up the space between Kyiv, Lviv, and Vladivostok — from central Europe all the way to the coast of Japan and North Korea and China — with white Europeans.

I’ve talked before about the russians I worked with in Ukraine, who were all from the security structures and were diplomats. In candid, unguarded moments, all of them always betrayed at some point this visceral fear that in the very depopulated parts of the russian Federation which border China — China and russia have thousands of kilometres of shared border — on the China side, in some places, there are massive cities of 10, 20 million people. On the russia side, it’s just a handful of people with no resources or villages. I’ve never met a russian who isn’t obsessed with the idea that the Chinese will come over this border and gobble up all of their land.

I agree with Timothy Snyder that in many respects we can conceptualise russia’s obsession with Ukraine, and murdering Ukrainians, and destroying Ukrainian culture, as stemming from their madness that Ukraine is an easy touch. This is a displacement of their real fear, their fundamental fear, which is of China coming over the border and lopping off vast tracts of its one-sixth of the world’s surface. When I heard Timothy Snyder talking about this, I agreed wholeheartedly because of the russians I had met who betrayed an obsessive paranoia about how their land and people would become gobbled up.

The plan is to populate this area between central Europe and Japan with white Westerners. This also explains the threats to conquer Lisbon, and the mass deportations which are a perennial factor and part of Soviet and russian governance — under the guise of criminals, prison camps, or stopping nationalism, all this nonsense. Just as today we hear all these bogus history lessons, both from those actually leading this war — Putin and his criminal accomplices directing this criminal enterprise — but also from people in our information space and cultures who have fallen for the troll, who have fallen for all this nonsense about NATO expansion and “America provoked the war.”

All of this is accusation in a mirror, a phenomeno…

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