I’m sure this will not be a surprise to my readers but western governments are yet again lying to manufacture consent for war. This time it’s to provoke war with Russia by stoking fear about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this article, I will go over the recent history that led to this situation and the current lies being spread by Western governments.
The Memory holed history of Ukraine
The mainstream narrative is currently dismissing any discussion of the well-documented history of United States involvement in Ukraine that led to the current tension between Russia and Ukraine. Of course, the mainstream media is labeling these facts as “Russian disinformation” but cannot make a counter argument to any of these facts. In order to understand the conflict in Ukraine, you need to look back at the 2014 Maidan “revolution” (or coup). In 2014 violent protest broke out against then Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. While there is no doubt Yanukovych was corrupt and elements of the protest were against his corruption the movement has a significant sector of far-right neo-nazi groups such as right-sector, a far-right nationalist group that joined the protest to “build a nationalist Ukrainian state and stage a nationalist revolution”. Another major leader in the protests was the Svoboda party,a far-right party led by Oleh Tyahnybok who made anti-Semitic claims that Ukraine was controlled by a “Moscow-Jewish Mafia”. The protests were ridden with Svoboda flags as well as neo-nazi flags. Of course, the West saw a geopolitical opportunity in these protests to be able to take out Yanukovych who was pro-Moskow leaning and install and pro-western puppet government. Prior to the protests opposition groups were heavily funded by U.S. government cut-outs such as USAID and the N.E.D. as well as tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar. While the protest was ongoing United States politicians like John McCain went as far as to join the protest in Ukraine. One of the biggest events in the protest was on February 20th when 50 protestors were killed by snipers. A leaked call between the foreign minister of Estonia and EU representative Catherine Ashton suggested the snipers were not sent by Yanukovych but by somebody from the collection of protestors as a false flag. Years later Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian Canadian researcher for the University of Ottawa did an in-depth study of the event and determined it was indeed a false flag perpetrated by the far-right elements of the protests. All of this eventually led to the ousting of the democratically elected Yanukovych in a coup. Another infamous leaked phone call proved the United States hand-picked the incoming coup government. A leaked phone call found then assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland handpicking the prime minister of Ukraine eventually landing on Arseniy Yatsenyuk saying “I think Yats is the Guy”. This coup led to Russia annexing Crimea and for the ethnic Russians in the Eastern Ukrainian areas Luhansk and Donetsk to secede from Ukraine. This then led to a civil war between the post-coup government and Eastern Ukrian which included the Ukrainian government backing the Azov battalion a far-right neo-nazi group. Similar to the Syrian war this turned into a proxy war between Russia and the United States. The United States sent arms to Ukraine including to Neo-Nazis. The United States funded and armed the Azov Batallion after pressure from the Pentagon to remove a provision in a bill sending arms to Ukraine that blocked arms from going to Azov.
“Imminent Russian invasion propaganda”
Fast forward to modern-day and the United States is fearmongering about an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. This led to the United States shipping “lethal aid” to Ukraine to stop this supposed “Russian invasion”. Ukraine did not play ball with the American narrative current Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told the West to stop this rhetoric arguing it was detrimental to the Ukrainian economy. Ukraine's national security secretary told BBC he doesn’t expect an imminent invasion, that he doesn’t share the west's “panic” and that the buildup of Russian troops is not as rapid as the West is claiming. Ukriane’s defense minister told his parliament that there are “no grounds to believe” Russia will invade Ukraine. This forced the White House to walk back its claim of an imminent Russian invasion saying they no longer will use the word imminent to describe a possible Russian attack. The U.S. government then moved on to a more absurd claim that Russia was planning a false flag event with “crisis actors” to provoke war with Ukraine. When pressed by an AP reported State Department spokesperson Ned Price had trouble defending this allegation. The only evidence Ned was able to give to the AP reporter was a declassified intelligence report that included no evidence for this claim and only an allegation. Price even hit the reporter with a McCarthyist smear saying “If you doubt the credibility of the US government, the UK government, and other governments and find solace in information that the Russians are putting out, that is for you to do,”. The fact that Price accused a journalist of repeating “Russian propaganda” for demanding evidence shows a reasonable person they have no evidence at all and are trying to silence dissent through smear tactics. There is also propaganda coming from think tanks like the Atlantic Council, a pro-war think tank funded by arms manufacturers, oil companies, and Western governments. It’s Deputy Director Melinda Haring spread a lie last week saying Putin was going to invade Ukraine last weekend. When Putin did not invade she blamed her “high running emotions” on her dead wrong prediction. After this propaganda exercise, Haring was hired by the United States government to discuss “Russian disinformation”.
This is clearly a propaganda campaign to justify more arms being sent to Ukraine, more sanctions on Russia, and even a possible war with Russia. After the United States media and government lying so often about war it’s shocking that anyone continues to belive this propaganda.