Quiz for the Day: Who Said This about U.S. Involvement in Ukraine?

Hat tip to onePeter5 for the quotes.

Make your guess about the writer: Is it Archbishop Vigano?

The United States is placing its occupation troops in one country after another. This is the de facto situation in Bosnia for 9 years, in Kosovo and Afghanistan for 5 years each, in Iraq.... There is little difference between NATO’s actions and individual U.S. actions. Clearly seeing that today’s Russia poses no threat to them, NATO is methodically and persistently developing its military apparatus – to the east of Europe and into the continental reach of Russia from the south. There is open material and ideological support for “color” revolutions, and the paradoxical introduction of North Atlantic interests – in Central Asia. All this leaves no doubt that.a complete encirclement of Russia is being prepared, and then the loss of its sovereignty. No, Russia’s accession to such a Euro-Atlantic alliance, which conducts propaganda and the violent introduction into various parts of the planet of the ideology and forms of current Western democracy – would lead not to expansion, but to the decline of Christian civilization.

Haven't figured it out yet? Here's another quote. This should at least make you recognize the writer's nationality. Is it Soviet KGB defector, Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov?:

What is happening in Ukraine...is my constant bitterness and pain. The fanatical suppression and persecution of the Russian language (which in past polls was recognized as its primary language by more than 60% of the population of Ukraine) is simply an atrocious measure, and also directed against the cultural perspective of Ukraine itself. Huge expanses of land that never belonged to historical Ukraine, like Novorossia, Crimea, and the entire southeastern region, have been forcibly squeezed into the current Ukrainian state and its policy of greedy NATO membership. In Yeltsin’s entire tenure, not a single meeting with Ukrainian presidents was without capitulations and concessions on his part. The expulsion of the Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol (never ceded to the Ukrainian SSR even under Khrushchev) is a base and vicious desecration of the entire Russian history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Under all these conditions, Russia dares not in any form indifferently betray the many millions of the Russian population in Ukraine, to deny our unity with them.

And here's the writer's opinion on Putin with another hint:

Vladimir Putin – yes, he was an officer of the intelligence services, but he was not a KGB investigator, nor was he the head of a camp in the gulag. As for service in foreign intelligence, that is not a negative in any country – sometimes it even draws praise. George Bush Sr. was not much criticized for being the ex-head of the CIA, for example.

And finally, this quote:

The cruel NATO bombings of Serbia… It’s fair to say that all layers of Russian society were deeply and indelibly shocked by those bombings… So, the perception of the West as mostly a ‘knight of democracy’ has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusionment, a crushing of ideals.

 If you guessed Alexander Solzhenitsyn, you pegged it. The man who gave a blistering description of the west in his Harvard speech (If you've never read it you should.) He gave it 1978 after moving to Vermont in 1976. He clearly saw the degradation of the culture and his criticism has proved prophetic. 

Solzhenitsyn remained here until 1994 when he returned to his native land where the government did not suppress his continued critical writings, unlike Zelensky and our own mainstream media/gov cabal who deplatform and suppress speech they don't like. 

Solzhenitsyn was a courageous truth teller. His writings were smuggled out of the gulag. The could never silence him. I wish he were here to give his view of the events in Ukraine. Somehow I doubt they would match the fulminations of the West. 

Read this again about his view of Western democracy and their plans for Russia: 

...a complete encirclement of Russia is being prepared, and then the loss of its sovereignty. No, Russia’s accession to such a Euro-Atlantic alliance, which conducts propaganda and the violent introduction into various parts of the planet of the ideology and forms of current Western democracy – would lead not to expansion, but to the decline of Christian civilization.

This could have been an op-ed written today. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a prophet who saw clearly where our decadent culture was heading. Let us ask for his prayers for us, for our families, for the people of Russia and Ukraine, and for a return to Christian ideals and moral life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, pray for us.