There will be an event in my town soonish about the background of the Ukraine conflict, and the speaker is a total lib. What questions should I ask, what incontrovertible facts can I use to combat liberalism?
I have Victoria Nuland and John McCain speaking and handing out cookies on the Maidan and talking about their material support for the coup. The revelations were used by western press but they came from Wikileaks and I can totally see that being dismissed out of hand. They'll probably also obfuscate the Nazi elements in a similar manner to the way the western press is doing constantly.
I have the UN/OSCE reports on civilian casualties in Donbas, I have the Congressional arguments about whether or not they want to support the Nazis directly... What else?
Should Ukraine have allowed the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts to hold referenda on secession? Why did they not simply do that to avoid an 8 year long civil war?
Why did Ukraine integrate Azov and other neonazi formations into their military rather than forcibly disbanding them? Why are so many Ukrainians sympathetic to fascism?
Wouldn't flooding the country with NATO weapons only prolong the conflict - leading to more bloodshed? Surely the quickest possible peace is in the best interest of the Ukrainian people. Trying to flood the country with arms seems to be a repeat of the strategy from when the Soviet-Afghan war which did not lead to a quick peace, but rather a decade long conflict. Does NATO actually want peace?