How U.S. Provoked Russia Over Ukraine

laprogressive.com ^ | 3/28/22 | LAP

[JonPreston]

According to a 2019 Rand report titled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”, the US goal is to undermine Russia just as it did the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Rather than “trying to stay ahead” or trying to improve the US domestically or in international relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia. Rand is a quasi-US governmental think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military.

Ukraine is important to Russia. The two countries share much common heritage and a long common border. One of the most important leaders of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, was Ukrainian. During WW2, Ukraine was one of Hitler’s invasion routes and there was a small but active number of Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi Germany. The distance from the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, to Moscow is less than 500 miles.

For these same reasons of geography and history, Ukraine is a major component of a US/NATO effort to undermine Russia. Current Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said that over 20 years the US invested $5 billion in the project to turn Ukraine. The culmination was a violent coup in February 2014. Since 2015, the US has been training ultra nationalist and Neo-Nazi militias. This has been documented in articles such as “U.S. House admits Nazi role in Ukraine” (Robert Parry, 2015), “The US is arming and assisting neo-nazis in Ukraine while the House debates prohibition.”(Max Blumenthal, 2018), “Neo Nazis and the far right are on the march in Ukraine” (Lev Golinken in 2019) and “The CIA may be breeding Nazi terror in Ukraine” (Branko Marcetic Jan. 2022).

[2CAVTrooper]

“less dramatic than you made it sound”

He’s always been a drama queen.

[ansel12]

Those are also attacks on Trump, what he lists as the cause of Russia invading is his list of President Trump actions from the report of 2019.

[2CAVTrooper]

"as witness to the elections in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk."

It's amazing the results one can get when you A.) Flood the regions with Russian citizens since 2012, and/or B.) Force Ukrainian citizens at gunpoint to vote in favor of the BS referendum.

And it's funny that you mention Kherson.

Wasn't Kherson the city that was liberated in November 2022 by the Ukrainian military who were welcomed with open arms as if they were Charles de Gaulle entering Paris after the city's liberation from the Nazis?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/12/europe/kherson-city-ukraine-russia-intl/index.html

"Kherson is part of Russia forever" - Vladimir Putin 🤣🤣🤣🤣