Sources for the Bonus Material
Chapter 10 (old). How does this end?
Public Support for the War
Statista:
“Where Most Aid to Ukraine Comes From”
https://www.statista.com/chart/28489/ukrainian-military-humanitarian-and-financial-aid-donors/
“Levada See 75 Percent of Russians Supporting War”
https://www.statista.com/chart/28436/support-for-war-in-ukraine-russians/
The Daily Beast:
“Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might’ve Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine”
The Guardian (Relevant Stakeholder(s): Scott Trust Limited)
“Ron DeSantis says US should not get ‘further entangled’ in Ukraine war”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/desantis-trump-republican-support-ukraine-war
“US and UK call for more gratitude from Kyiv after Zelenskiy’s Nato complaint”
(specific section)
BBC News (Relevant Stakeholder(s): UK State):
“Russia-linked posts ‘reached 126m Facebook users in US’”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41812369
NSA - via Wikimedia:
“NSA Report on Russia Spearfishing”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/NSA_Report_on_Russia_Spearphishing.pdf
The New York Post (Relevant Stakeholder(s): News Corp):
“Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
Wikipedia:
“Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election”
Illegal Mass Surveillance
The Guardian (Relevant Stakeholder(s): Scott Trust Limited)
“NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/03/edward-snowden-nsa-surveillance-guardian-court-rules
“Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/merkel-compares-nsa-stasi-obama
The US and Russia: Illegal Wars
BBC News (Relevant Stakeholder(s): UK State):
“Iraq war illegal, says Annan”
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3661134.stm
United Nations:
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a violation of the UN Charter, UN Chief tells Security Council”
United States Senate:
“About Declarations of War by Congress”
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm
(specific quote)
The Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war.
International Criminal Court Project:
“‘Aggression’ in document ‘Russia - Criminal Code’”
https://iccdb.hrlc.net/data/doc/192/keyword/1/
Renaming/Denying Conflicts
Teaching American History - via Wayback Machine:
“The President’s News Conference of June 29, 1950”
(specific quotes)
Q. Mr. President, everybody is asking in this country, are we or are we not at war?
THE PRESIDENT. We are not at war.
Q. Mr. President, would it be correct, against your explanation, to call this a police action under the United Nations?
THE PRESIDENT. Yes. That is exactly what it amounts to.”
[15.]Q. Mr. President, when you referred to police action, do I understand you mean United Nations police action?
THE PRESIDENT. I beg your pardon?
Q. When you refer to police action on behalf of Korea, you mean United Nations?
THE PRESIDENT. That is correct. That is correct.
Chatham House - via Wayback Machine:
“Russia resurgent? Moscow’s campaign to ‘coerce Georgia to peace’ - ROY ALLISON”
(specific quote)
‘Russia in difficult battles is now conducting a peace coercion operation’, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, 10 Aug. 2008; President Medvedev used the same term in an award ceremony for Russian servicemen who took part in the operation
TASS (Relevant Stakeholder(s): Russian State):
“About 14,000 people killed during conflict in Donbass, top Ukrainian diplomat says”
https://tass.com/world/1289095
(specific section)