After my article about the NATO summit, which was in fact more a publicity show than anything else, I would like to give a historical inside from 2014 until today on the Ukrainian issue. There has been such an immense western political and media manipulation on the matter that it can be said that everything fed to the western public was and is a lie. Ofcourse this is a very fast and simplified account because otherwise it would take a book to write.

Let us go back to 2014 and even before.

When the Sovjet Union fell in 1991, Yeltsin opened the doors to western companies and Neoliberalism. At the same time what were big state companies (and especially the oil and gas state companies) came into the hands of what some time later were called the oligarchs. They got their hands on those state companies without paying any penny for them. And with this happening, together with the general economic collaps of the country, the US came in with all its multinationals followed on foot by European companies. In fact Russia was taken over by the west and Neoliberalism. This went on until Yeltsin put Vladimir Putin at the helm, asking him to save the country. Ofcourse these were not his exact words but that is the gist of it.

And Putin did exactly that. He brought the country back on its feet. The US, the UK and the EU did not like at all what Putin was doing, because their goal was to take over Russia with
puppet governments in power to do their bidding. And right there started the hate towards Putin. He had stopped the piliging. Washington’s dream after the fall of the Sovjet Union was
to be the unchallenged worldpower of a unipolar world. It did not work.

In 2005 there was an orange revolution in Kiev which led to the first pro-western and pro neoliberalism president, but in the next presidential elections he was defeated by a pro Russian candidate who did not want to break with Russia as an economical partner but also was interested in entering the EU. The EU gave him an ultimatum: or with us or with Russia. But then already the Maidan revolution had begun, which was originally many people unsatisfied with their government for different reasons. Now it is 2014.

Let us go back to 2005. That year the USA was already involved in Ukraine and already invested money to prepare the country for a western oriented ideology, wanting to take the country away from Russia and Russia’s sphere of influence. Those preparations had everything to do with NATO and it’s expansion to Russia’s border with Ukraine as a NATO member. From 2005 on the US (and I suppose the CIA) invested in rebuilding the Ukrainian army on a western NATO model. Because the ultimate goal was to have western military NATO bases in the country with missiles pointed at Russia.

In 2014, with the direct help and interference of the US, CIA and the EU, a coup was staged in Kiev and a president and government came to power hand picked by the Neocons in
Washington. The Russian speaking population of the Donbas region in the east and south of Ukraine contested the coup with big protest rally’s. And not only in the Donbas but also in
Crimea and Odessa. Poroshenko, the president, sent the army to the Donbas to quel the uprising and dispatched a group of neonazi thugs to Odessa for the same reason. In Odessa it ended with 80 protesters burned alive in the workers union building. The thugs who did it were never brought to trial.

In Donbass the army went with tanks in the streets of Donetsk but did not manage to quel the uprising. In fact many soldiers and commanders went over to the protesters wit hall their
military equipment as they were from that region and did not want to fight against their brothers and sisters. Poroshenko declared war on the Donbass and as a reaction 2 Donbass regions, Luhansk and Donetsk, declared independency after a held referendum, procaiming the peoples republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Poroshenko sent the neonazi Azov battalion to the Donbas and from that moment on a civil war started which went on until 2022 with 15.000 people killed, mostly civilians.

Two efforts were made to stop this internal war. Minsk agreement 1 and Minsk agreement 2, in which Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine agreed that the Donbas region would become autonomous within the Ukraine state, with its own government and decision making apparatus. It turned out that those agreements were a fake and never meant to be implemented by Ukraine or Germany or France, but used to have time to fill Ukraine with weapenry with the scope to end the rebellion. In february 2022 an army of 150.000 soldiers was massed at the borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics.

Both republics had asked Russia many times to recognize their republics and help them to survive. But Putin held back, not wanting to get involved in a conflict with Ukraine. But after many attempts from Russia’s side to create together with NATO and the West a new security zone in Europe, Putin decided in that same February 2022 to recognise the 2 peoples republics. And the Russian military operation began to liberate the Donbas region from 8 years of Kiev’s military agression against part of its own population.

Let us go back a little. In 1991, when the Sovjet Union fell, Ukraine, together with other former Sovjet republics, declared their independence from Russia, Right away in the Donbas region, Crimea and Odessa the population held referenda and decided to want to go back to Mother Russia. All those regions were historically part of Russia and Odessa a city build by Tsarina Catherine the Great. They are Russians, speaking Russian and having a Russian culture and religion. But the then government of the Ukraine republic did not recognise the referenda. And that was that.

The story goes back even further. Lenin wanted an industrial strong sovjet republic of Ukraine, which became the reason why he incorporated the Russian Donbas region into Ukraine. Cruchev many years later gave Crimea to Ukraine as a gift, because he himself was from Ukraine. So because of the whim of 2 sovjet leaders, never asking the population of those regions for their opinion, a smoldering situation has been under the surface that exploded in 2014.

The rest of the story is a tragic one. With an elected comedian in 2019 as president, elected on his promise to bring a peaceful solution to the Donbas issue, which he broke under pressure of the neonazis in his government. Those neonazis, fully embedded also in the army by now, are the real ones in power, celebrated by the neocons in the US (they recieved full delegations in Washington and elsewhere in the States, the UK and in several countries of the EU). They are the ones the NATO was and is counting on, with mister Zelensky as a figure head. They did terrible things in Ukraine and fabricated all those videos shown in the western media as truth (without any fact checking from those media). The West took all their fabricated material with greedy hands to reinforce a devilish image of Putin. NATO was thrilled by the ‘good work’ of these thugs. Everything that could discredit Putin and Russia was welcome. And all that time nobody asked (again) what the people of Donbass wanted or ask them to tell their story of 8 years being attacked by Azov and other neonazi battalions, cut off their pensions, etc. Nobody was and is interested. It does not serve their narrative.

Maybe Putin’s Military Operation was not the right thing to do. We will never know. But what we know is that the US and NATO wanted to break Russia’s back and that through putting
neonazi affiliated persons in power in Ukraine (who hate the Russians) they could achieve their goal through a proxi war fought on Ukrainian soil. As it happened they lost miserably.

What the terrible thing is, is that they sacrificed the Ukrainian population on the altar of their unholy and violent plans.