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Answer these questions if you want my support!

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There was a lack of emphasis on Russia’s terror in Ukraine during the recent Republican Party presidential contenders’ debate. Russia must be pleased. True, several chided the current administration for its tepid response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine; even criticized U.S. participation in the dismantling of Ukraine’s nuclear capability. None, however, went as far as admitting that the U.S., and other signatories of the Budapest Memorandum, have a legal obligation to defend Ukraine after insisting it give up its nukes to the Russians. Now Russia is the ultimate threat to global peace and security as it deliberately advances its aggression.

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Systemic wrongdoing in Ukraine and Canada

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On the eve of the G-7 summit last month, the Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine (I’m a member) asked the government of Canada to advise President Petro Poroshenko to withdraw from implementing Minsk II until Russia removes its military and terrorists from Luhansk and Donetsk. To do less, according to the letter to Canada’s minister for foreign affairs, is to “legitimize the occupation” and participate in Ukraine’s dismemberment. Most clauses of the agreement are Russia-dictated demands detrimental to Ukraine. The group pointed to the “limits of diplomacy,” as Russia breaks the ceasefire incessantly and the West’s lack of resolve encourages further aggression. Now the death toll is nearing 7,000, the wounded surpass 13,000, the displaced are well over 1 million, and the devastation of Ukraine physically and psychologically is immeasurable and will be felt for generations.

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Managing negative consequences

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From a Canadian Angle
As Ukraine’s government works diligently towards establishing itself as a democratic institution mindful of the well-being of its citizens, its policies need to be mindful of good intentions going wrong. To ensure that they don’t offers an opportunity for Ukraine’s friends like Canada. Take agriculture, for example. The breadbasket of Europe, nay the world, needs help to make even greater contributions to this critical sector. This provides an opportunity as well as a challenge.

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Ukrainians forgotten heroes of Auschwitz

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On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated when tanks of the First Ukrainian Front broke through the enclosures. Twenty-year-old Ihor Pobirchenko was the first to confront the horror perpetrated by the Nazis. Atop a tank, he saw humans hanging from the barbed-wire enclosure. They were alive, but barely: the fence was not electrified. The tanks rolled in.