Below is the legal opinion of the Hungarian-Austrian international law lawyer Dr. Eva-Maria Barki on the Ukraine conflict.
In it, the Viennese lawyer paints a differentiated picture of the history of the conflict, which should have led to the elimination of Russia by the West in the 2014 Maidan coup:
The oppression of the ethnic minorities by the Zelenskyj regime, the most serious violations of international law by the latter against the Russian minority, in the territories now incorporated by Russia. And then the breach of the two Minsk Agreements.
“The First World War and the subsequent peace dictates fundamentally changed Europe. The states of Central Europe were punished under the pretext of war guilt, their political and economic structure destroyed, borders arbitrarily changed, millions of people, including 4 million Hungarians, placed under foreign rule and abandoned to the fate of an oppressed minority.”
After the First World War, Europe was plunged into a permanent state of war, which not only led to the Second World War, but has continued to this day, even after the fall of communism, as the problems are still the same today and have not been solved.
The American Secretary of State Lansing said aptly after the peace dictates:
“We have peace treaties, but they will not bring peace because they are founded on the quicksand of self-interest.”
The European center as a political and economic factor was to be shattered. A tendency that runs like a red thread to this day and is reflected in recurring attempts to divide Europe.
As a result, the USA took over the role of the declining British Empire. The aim of the transatlantic community continues to be the economic and political weakening of Europe and the securing of transatlantic influence. This includes the instrumentalization of Europe against Russia, which is to be eliminated as a competing world power.
The ideological basis of the hostile policy against the European center is the study “The Geographical Pivot of History” published by Halford Mackinder in London in 1904. In it, he describes the political, economic and strategic superiority of a continental power over naval powers.
His Heartland Theory reads: “Whoever rules Eastern Europe rules the Heartland. Whoever rules the Heartland rules the World Island, which is Eurasia. Whoever rules the world island rules the whole world.”
He thus shows that Britain's position of global power is endangered by the rising continental power in Europe, because only a land power can lead to global domination.
He emphasizes the importance of Central and Eastern Europe as a source of danger that must be eliminated or controlled.
In a lecture in March 2015, the American political scientist George Friedmann admitted that this theory - which is still taught at military academies in the USA today - has been the basis of American foreign policy for 100 years, namely the prevention of a Eurasian continental power.
Specifically: “Cooperation between Germany and Russia must be prevented by all means. In this sense, the importance of Central and Eastern Europe should also be seen as a buffer zone to prevent a connection with Russia or Eurasia.”
In any case, the left-liberal Brussels Soros elites are alarmed - as their propaganda media question: “Ukraine as an example: Trump's game with the world order”
Within a few days, the US government under Donald Trump has also sent geopolitical shockwaves through Europe. The US brought Russian President Vladimir Putin back to the negotiating table on the issue of the Russian war of aggression.
In return, they sent their European allies to the sidelines and at the same time called the alliance as a whole into question. Talk of a new world order suddenly no longer seems far-fetched. (ORF)
“Ukraine crisis: Legal opinion of the international law lawyer Dr. Eva Maria Barki”
Brief summary:
1. the Russian President Vladimir Putin should be charged with crimes under international law before the Criminal Court in The Hague. Even the USA, which does not recognize the International Criminal Court for itself, is calling for this.
2. these accusations not only lack any legal basis, but are also part of the so-called US “National Security Strategy 2002” (1991) for the elimination of Russia in the sense of unilateralism. Ukraine plays a key role in this as a “pivotal point”.
3. the Ukrainian rulers are accused of violations of international law, including - Violation of the rights of national minorities - Violation of the Minsk agreements - Violation of the right to self-determination of peoples.
4 Ukraine is not a homogeneous, historically evolved nation state, but a multi-ethnic state. More than half of the state does not speak Ukrainian as a colloquial language.
5. a federal form of government would be necessary for Ukraine as a multi-ethnic state. In 1991, US President George W. Bush warned against a “suicidal struggle of nationalities”.
6. The cause of the war in Ukraine was the bloody Maidan coup in 2014, when a government supported by the West was installed. The reaction to this - out of fear of similar aggression - was (both in Donbass and Crimea) referendums (with up to 90% Russian approval). Ukraine's military response was heavy artillery, missile and bomb attacks, as well as the destruction of civilian facilities and infrastructure.
7. the Minsk I agreement (September 2014) was broken by the Ukrainian government: It includes: a ceasefire, a de facto recognition of Russian territories in the Donbass.
8. the Minsk II agreement (12.2.2015) was also not complied with, including Local elections in the decentralized Russian territories (Donetsk and Lugansk).
9. the Minsk Agreement is a binding treaty under international law, which is binding under international law through UN Security Council Resolution No. 2202. The breach of the treaty by Ukraine using military force is to be considered a war crime.
10. treaty violations concern: the right of peoples to self-determination. It is a universal natural right and was first established by President Woodrow Wilson. In reality, however, this right was denied to the peoples of Central Europe after the First and Second World Wars.
The entire declaration and even more background information in German language here.
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