Terry,
The question is not particularly who Andrii Artemenko is, it is whether Trump's personal lawyer delivered a peace proposal from Andrii to Michael Flynn. There are intelligence sources saying that it did happen and there are WH statements that it did not happen; so one side is lying & lying during a formal investigation (e.g. the FBI is conducting such investigations) is an impeachable offense.
ASLR
Sorry ASLR my bad.
I spent as much time studying the Ukrainian situation as we now spend trying to understand the Arctic ice.
Just as we might tend to discount anything Lord Monckton says about Arctic ice, so those of us who studied the Ukraine tend to discount Artemenko's statements about Russia.
And just as we wouldn't expect an archaeologist, an engineer or any other person uninvolved in Arctic studies to be repelled by the mere mention of Monckton's name, so I should not have expected you to react as I do when Andrii is mentioned.
Artemenko's troops are the ones that stood behind Ukraine's conscripts, killing those who attempted to flee the fighting. They didn't fight the rebels who are both motivated and armed, but rather the disheartened conscripts, some of whom feared the Russians, and some of whom just didn't want to kill their neighbors.
Many of the early squabbles ended when old ladies went to the tanks and told those inside to go home and to leave them and theirs alone. The Right Sector was there to assure that this attitude didn't spread.
I became interested in the Ukraine when I saw, just as you mention, that one side was lying, not mistaken, not misguided but lying through their teeth.
I expected to find both sides dissembling, but with the balance of truth resting firmly on "our" side. It took some weeks of study before I came to realize that my initial mindset had been totally wrong.
The following months of study were to verify my initial conclusions & by the second year I was simply following the progress of the various threads that had been teased open.
The site I studied is gone, thousands of pages, tens of thousands of photos and videos. Unlike Neven's wonderful pages, that site was populated with trolls from both sides, advocates for everyone from the US to Russia and with input from Texas Crimeans and Canadian Galatians.
Each statement was expected to be proven, and arguments over minutia could last for months. Many of the techniques I learned in my Arctic studies proved useful. When multiple explanations are all accepted, then they are all lies, is as true in Anthony's pages as in Ukrainian politics.
The site was 8,000 pages long when I started, I read all that, as well as the thousands of pages that followed. I didn't expect any not following to be aware of the true situation on the ground and was surprised when I found that JimD was.
I can't expect those that didn't see what I had seen, and read what I had read, to understand what I understand. You know my understanding of the problems we face from climate change, and my concern that we're still close to nuclear annihilation.
Accept that there are many who fear war with Russia, and that when you drive Trump away from Putin you drive us away from your battle against Trump. We despise Trump and everything he represents - except for his alleged rapport with Russia.
Attack Trumps policies, particularly those related to climate change, that's where your expertise lies.
Think of the well placed shots of a marksman, none will end his reign, but by placing them carefully perhaps we can alter his course.
I'd like him to draw closer to Putin perhaps that alone will change his mind about China and Iran.
Let him get caught up in the quagmire of devising an American healthcare plan, as possibly he'll ignore those calling for more coal.
Maybe he'll fight so hard to keep Muslims out, that he'll forget about the Mexicans already in country.
We won't win, that option is now off the table, but perhaps we can make defeat easier by pushing him away from destroying what we most value, and pulling him towards actions that we are less concerned with.
Terry