Ukraine—The Inevitable War

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By Chay Bowes

During a recent interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, former Chancellor and European political heavyweight Angela Merkel revealed that the Minsk accords, a comprehensive 2015 diplomatic treaty, agreed by the EU, United States, Russia, and Kyiv to end the civil war in eastern Ukraine, was essentially subverted by the Ukrainians in an attempt to buy time to expand its military capabilities.
 
The fact that the accords, which were widely regarded as a truly workable solution to the conflict, were not prioritized by the U.S. for implementation, speaks volumes when assessing the sincerity of the U.S. position. Just prior to Merkel’s stunning revelations, Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was also covertly recorded admitting that the process was abused by Ukraine and used to prepare for war with Russia.
 
Given the high level of interface between NATO and Ukraine during this period, it is difficult to imagine that this manipulation of the peace process was not carried out with the full knowledge, and probable assistance, of NATO and the U.S. It is now abundantly clear, at least to all objective observers, that the U.S. never seriously intended to prevent the current conflict in Ukraine. On the contrary, any cursory assessment of their past and contemporary covert and overt involvement in the region suggests they have been working to destabilize Russia via Ukraine for decades.
 
Facts such as their encouragement, and material assistance, in the building of a huge 250,000-man, NATO-trained and equipped army facing Russia’s border, illustrate the reality of what the U.S. project in Ukraine was about, regardless of their diplomatic pronouncements.
 
Despite decades of Russian warnings on NATO expansion, and despite the sincere attempts of some European countries, NATO and its U.S. kingpins forged ahead along a path to what would become an inevitable war. Considering this, can any of the numerous U.S./NATO statements suggesting they “exhausted all diplomatic efforts” to prevent this conflict be taken seriously? The facts suggest not.
 
As the second phase of the conflict in Ukraine grinds toward its first bloody anniversary, the first being the post-Maidan civil war which erupted in 2014, the grim realities of this conflict, both economic and human, are now indelibly burned into the global consciousness not only of the Ukrainian and Russian populations, but also the pro-war political aristocracy in the U.S. and their client EU/NATO allies.
 
In recent weeks, whispers of peace have emerged, uncharacteristically, from the eternally hawkish, “absolute victory” brigade in Washington. It is undeniable that these war hawks wield a disproportionate influence on Zelensky’s government, with many dissenting analysts suggesting it is they who essentially operate the levers of power in his Kyiv palace.
 
Before accepting this dubious kite flying for peace as genuine, observers would be advised to research the long, determined and cynical march into this inevitable conflict, a clash long predicted by scholars like Mearsheimer and Chomsky, who have persistently highlighted the central role that the United States and its proxies in the EU had in willfully manufacturing its inevitability. Conflicts between great powers tend not to occur overnight, and with this being such a high-stakes game, where the very balance of global power is potentially shifting, nothing happens unless it is supposed to happen. Essentially, when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine, the power bloc that emerges victorious will potentially dominate a new global order; in other words “this game is for all the marbles.”
 
This conflict has evolved into one unlike any other, the weaponization of social media, of culture, and the revision of history itself, have become second fronts, central to the anti-Russian, pro-Atlanticist narrative at the center of the EU/NATO pro-war rationale. It is critical that the Western public, who have been bombarded 24/7 by a propaganda Leviathan of previously unseen proportions and resources, explore the factual realities of how the “scaffold” that this conflict now burns on was deliberately built, not over a matter of months or years but over a matter of decades.
 
Of course, having any opinion other than the prescribed Western view is portrayed as dangerous and subversive. Any view, other than the stock mainstream narrative, which alleges that a maniacal imperialist Russia, wishing to regain tracts of previously conquered territory, is cast as Russian propaganda. This authoritarian and dangerous. corporate position has led to people such as your author being labeled as pro-Putin advocates, and paid propagandists for an authoritarian, genocidal and hateful state.
 
Of course, the opposite is quite true. Your author and many others like me are essentially anti-war advocates, who earnestly seek to challenge the profit-fueled neo-liberal hegemony that has led Europe, blindly, to the brink of a third world war.
 
The reality that I, and many others have long held these anti-imperialist views, is discarded along with all objectivity, independence and balance. It is now undeniable that the pan-Atlanticist perpetual war cult has gone “all in” on Ukraine. Turning a blind eye to Nazismgross corruption and human rights abuses, while gleefully depriving American and European populations of their right to dissent, their right to disagree and their right to challenge the rationale for this terrible conflict.
 
The reality that is consistently hidden is that the only winner, if there is one, is the military industrial complex which is profiting grotesquely from the human misery that abounds in the ditches and trenches of Ukraine today.
 
It is incumbent on the United States to question the veracity and sincerity of U.S. diplomacy, given that any initial hopes of a negotiated peace in the east, which had erupted into a brutal civil war in 2014, were dashed by the persistent failures of U.S. ally Petro Poroshenko’s government to act on central parts of the Minsk deal, most notably the federalization of Donbas within Ukraine and the preservation of rights for millions of ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine who had rejected the pro-EU Maidan coup.
 
Today, an increasingly fractious NATO/EU Washington-led alliance seems determined to compound its continuing foreign policy failures by deeming Russia a “Terrorist State.” It seems that the irony—that recently released U.S. data confirm that America has killed more than 900,000 people in dozens of countries in the past 20 years alone—is seemingly lost on the U.S. State Department.
 
This escalatory move demonstrates that any semblance of the grudging but mutual respect between U.S. and Russian diplomats during the Cold War is now sadly a romantic memory. It is worth recalling that these official and unofficial diplomatic channels not only steered the U.S. away from nuclear Armageddon, but they also fostered, and indeed encouraged, pragmatism on both sides, with the idea that a deal could be done and had to be done thankfully prevailing. Today, however, diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States are at their lowest point since their establishment in 1933, and that is bad news for almost everyone.
 
When examining the background to today’s conflict, it is important to interrogate the abject failure of Western diplomacy, firstly to de-escalate the 2014 post-coup civil conflict in eastern Ukraine, and more recently to defuse the standoff which culminated with the Russian military intervention in February. How could such a potentially catastrophic conflict between an increasingly boxed-in Russia and a hawkish NATO/Ukraine have come to this? Surely the many voices of geopolitical realism and restraint were being heard?
 
If not, maybe the persistent and increasingly resolute warnings of “red lines being crossed” by a concerned Moscow? No? Well then, shouldn’t the U.S./NATO at least have respected the democratic wishes of 73% of the Ukrainian people? After all, they voted Zelensky into power on his promise to “end the war”? It seems none of these crucial realities registered with the ever expanding “freedom machine” that is NATO, most interestingly the mandate of the Ukrainian people for peace in the east was conveniently ignored.
 
When Moscow deployed its troops to the Ukrainian border in the closing months of 2021, it was seen by many (including your author) as elaborate sabre-rattling to demonstrate the seriousness with which the Russians viewed the situation; of course, it turned out to be quite the opposite.
 
As the Russian Army crossed the Ukrainian border in the early hours of February 24th, not only did it spell the end of decades of Russian warnings about NATO’s eastward expansion onto its borders, it may also have marked the end of a global world order dominated by the U.S. and its dollar. When objectively evaluating the global impact of this crisis and the potential spoils to the victor, it becomes increasingly likely that the widely publicized last-minute attempts for peace were mere PR outings, box-ticking for future deniability.
 
When did the U.S. “project” in Ukraine begin?
 
When Western narrators insert the now seemingly obligatory phrase “unprovoked invasion of Ukraine” when writing on the crisis, it would be useful to point out that it is undeniable, but not widely known, that the United States has been agitating to wrestle Ukraine away from the influence of Russia since the end of World War II.
 
Despite the complex demographic and geopolitical realities of the region, and in spite of the deep and ancient social, linguistic, and historical ties between Russia and Ukraine, Uncle Sam has had his eye on Kyiv for a very long time. As far back as 1949 the relatively young Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a priority target for initially the OSS and then the newly formed CIA, which aimed to exploit the complex ethnic and historic differences in the region to undermine the Soviets.
 
The long-term U.S. strategy involved overt and covert actions to influence and fund various Ukrainian nationalist and paramilitary organizations. As with innumerable other CIA-led regime-change operations, the morality or political persuasion of their partners mattered not, and they included the openly Nazi collaborators of the ultranationalist OUN and UPA led by recognized mass murderers like Stepan Bandera, a man now widely and openly deified in Zelensky’s Ukraine by recently instituted national holidays and countless statues.
 
An examination of the recent activities of CIA cut-outs such as the “National Endowment for Democracy,” “Freedom House,” the “National Democratic Institute,” the “International Republican Institute” and the “Eurasia Foundation” confirms the deep-seated persistence of U.S. intelligence-backed subversion in Ukraine. These organizations like to describe their “mission” as “assisting the building of Ukrainian civil society” but, in reality, their multimillion-dollar task is part of a broader U.S. strategy to remove “unfriendly” governments as per the CIA regime-change playbook.
 
The successful U.S.-sponsored coup d’état against the legitimately elected government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 was the culmination of those decades of efforts to install and propagate a pro-Western, anti-Russian, pro-EU government in Kyiv, much as it had worked to do in many post-Soviet republics like Belarus. It was now glaringly apparent that, rather than respecting the very democracy that it selectively supports, the U.S. has preferred an “à la carte” approach to the democracy and freedom it purports to represent: If it is pro-U.S.A., defend it; if it is not, destroy it.
 
“Maidan” an unmissable opportunity  
 
The depth of U.S. interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs has been truly astounding. It has also been intentionally overlooked by mainstream media and their client analysts when evaluating the apparent failure of diplomatic attempts to avert today’s conflict in Ukraine.
 
Instead of accepting the democratic mandate of the imperfect Yanukovych government, the U.S. and its EU allies openly supported the Maidan coup. The U.S. and its European allies even went so far as to brazenly suggest that, if Yanukovych performed an “about face” and accepted the agreement to move closer to the EU economically, he might be permitted to remain in power.

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Steve Bannon on the War Room – “We’re Hurdling Towards a Kinetic War”

02/14/23 – Thousands of Ukrainian children put through Russian ‘re-education’ camps

At least 6,000 children from Ukraine have attended Russian “re-education” camps in the past year, with several hundred held there for weeks or months beyond their scheduled return date, according to a new report published in the US.

Russia has also unnecessarily expedited the adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine in what could constitute a war crime, the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab report found. The report was funded by the US state department.

Since the start of the war nearly a year ago, children as young as four months living in the occupied areas have been taken to 43 camps across Russia, including in Moscow-annexed Crimea and Siberia, for “pro-Russia patriotic and military-related education”, said the report…

Hitler did the same thing with the stolen Polish children of murdered parents.

Sure. I believe that. It’s horrible.

But Zelenskyy is the same, and he genocided tens of thousands in Easter Ukraine.

This is war. The “war criminal” moniker you dumbf*cks try to schlep means nothing.

The scenario thus far:
Russia invades. It’s a sh*tshow for a year, then Russians do what they do best: throw bodies and material at the enemy to destroy them via war of attrition. They kill innocents, make the land uninhabitable, and any who live are shipped off to die in work camps.

NO SHIT YOU MORON.

Read a little history. This is how all Russian wars go.

There’s no indication that Zelenskyy “genocided” anybody. Putin has launched a war of aggression with the intention of recreating the former totalitarian Soviet empire. If he isn’t stopped in Ukraine, he’ll dominate all of Europe.

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Indeed, there’s no “indication.”

It’s verified fact.

Show your “facts”. Won’t happen. You have none to show. They don’t exist. Just like your evidence of Trump’s “massive election fraud”.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

The evidence has been shown, ad nauseum. You just have to pretend it’s not real, like you do with everything else.

You and all the other “CNN” pukes are going down.

If you actually acknowledged the proof already given, you and the rest of the traitors would be in jail…or worse.

Of course you have to lie. It’s survival for you.

The 2020 election was rigged. Biden is a puppet dictator. Zelenskyy is a war criminal.

Ride that tiger for as long as you can, *sshole. Just remember that it WILL eat you in the end.

Meanwhile, the Twitter files prove we’re suffering an unelected regime who started a war on behalf of the military-industrial complex to make money.

Just remember Biden is DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths and imprisonment all those Ukrainian children you pretend to care about.

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02/15/23 – Russian official, prolific social media proselytizer, at center of alleged Ukrainian children scheme

People who believe Pizzagate was about something real will predictably deny the reality of this.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

CNN is regime, state-sponsored propaganda.

It’s not credible, not journalistic…not news.

So who knows really what’s going on there?

You sure as hell don’t. The forced removal of thousands of Ukrainians from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories to Russian “resettlement” camps has been known for months.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

I know a bit more than you, it seems.

Your 20th Century hold on “the narrative” is dead, son. Let it go.

  • OMG you didnt lolololol CNN seriously?

The 17-month delay between a search warrant that secured longtime CNN producer John Griffin’s devices in Vermont and an arrest on child trafficking charges shows that feds “don’t give a da– about these kind of cases,” according to a former FBI agent turned whistleblower who has taken the bureau to task for years.
“He obviously is a sexual predator, and has gone from grooming children into actually ‘capturing’ them,” said Jane Turner, a former FBI special agent who blew the whistle on the FBI’s mishandling of child sex crime cases in North Dakota’s Native American reservations. “Very, very dangerous offender.” 
The evidence against Griffin allegedly includes drone video he took showing a “completely naked 9-year-old girl” standing next to him in his underwear, according to court filings.
You take the word of kiddie diddlers on child trafficking anywhere?
They hire ex CIA, an agency known for sexually abusing children.

CNN is just one more facet in the pedophile ring that is our now illegal Federal Government.

I cant believe he went there its beyond just beyond.

greg is just following orders.

Greg doesnt know what he is doing…vaxx damage you know, spike proteins right through the blood barrier.

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Morons Are Gaslighting America.

Morons Are Gaslighting America.

Yes you are…well, were.

No one believes CNN anymore.

You f*cks are going down.

Pete Reed was a real man. A humanitarian, and an American patriot. HE knew what the hell was going on in Ukraine.

The f*cking Russians are deliberately targeting foreign aid workers. There’s video of the first and second hits on Reed’s clearly marked red cross vehicle with line-of-sight anti-tank missiles. (I don’t recommend that anyone seek it out. The audio is horrifying and heartbreaking.) There’s no way it was accidental. The Wagner bastards knew what they were shooting at. They claim they were killing foreign mercenaries. What the hell are they?

You don’t know jackshit. You’ve never seen a war close up. You think America is a police state. You’ve said as much. You live in a propaganda fueled fantasy, sonny.

I think I’ve had my fill.

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The f*cking Russians are deliberately targeting foreign aid workers.

Oh shit thats Bidens thing as seen in Afgahnistan.

Tell us, Comrade Greggie, was Ukraine right in bombing the Donbas region with over 4,000 bombs, killing both women and children, prior to the invasion of Russia? Do you really think the Wagner group is more evil than the Ukrainian Nazis? Are you really that stupid?

I think I’ve had my fill.

How many years have you been saying that?

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greg is starting to believe his made up identity, like he actually is a veteran.

If he was, he wouldn’t act like killing civilians suddenly will make the world come together and nuke Russia.

THE USA KILLS CIVILIANS ALL THE TIME, AND GREG DOESN’T EVEN CARE.

Zelenskyy is a genocidal war criminal..at least by greg’s own admission.

ZELENSKYY IS PROVEN TO HAVE COMMITTED GENOCIDE. IT’S NOT THEORY. IT’S EMPIRICAL FACT.

Do you really think the Wagner group is more evil than the Ukrainian Nazis?

Yes. The Wagner Group’s corporate employees are professional terrorists, kept in line by internal terrorism. Fail to follow orders, and they’ll execute their own with a hammer and make it into a video terror tool, to show what happens. How do you not know this?

These are the paid Nazis Putin has sent to Ukraine. Putin, who throws unwilling Russian conscripts with 3 days of military training against Ukrainians positions in
human waves.

How do you not know this?

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The Russians paid the Wagner Group to fight (like they always do with mercenaries, historically).

America paid ISIS….f*cking ISIS…to go fight in Ukraine.

How did they pay them?

WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS!!

Every action you feign outrage over is being DONE in spades by NATO and the US far past the level you accuse Russia of.

Get bent.

Tell me more about Vietnam? Are you still pretending you’re a vet?

You’re bent already.

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Why can’t you actually ever defend the regime-sponsored tripe you try to post here?

Just grow a pair and tell me!

Wagner – so the fuck what? Russia and the US BOTH use mercenaries.
ISIS – WE paid them.

How is that different??? How is paying ISIS not worse?

ANSWER ME YOU F*CKING COWARD!

There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

~James Randi~

James Randi
He is a dead magician he contributed nothing to humanity.

He exposed frauds and phonies. Today, few things are more useful.

So did Houdini, big f’n deal.

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greg is…literally…a robot.

You’re definitely one of them. ^^^

Not one thing you’ve posted here has been pro-democracy, pro-freedom, pro-law, pro-truth, or pro-humanity.

It’s all been paganism, communism, and ball-lapping at the regime.

You’re a pig believer and we’re stopping your insane movement, NOW.

Then Mimi other would have sectioned him out. The military of today would put him in officer candidate.

Do you really think the Wagner group is more evil than the Ukrainian Nazis?

Yes. The Wagner Group’s corporate employees are professional terrorists,

From one of your left wing publications, Time Magazine:

[in October 2019], “40 members of Congress signed a letter calling—unsuccessfully—for the U.S. State Department to designate Azov a foreign terrorist organization. “Azov has been recruiting, radicalizing, and training American citizens for years,” the letter said. Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, later confirmed in testimony to the U.S. Senate that American white supremacists are “actually traveling overseas to train.”
The hearings on Capitol Hill glossed over a crucial question: How did Azov, an obscure militia started in 2014 with only a few dozen members, become so influential in the global web of far-right extremism? TIME, in more than a dozen interviews with Azov’s leaders and recruits, found that the key to its international growth has been its pervasive use of social media, especially Facebook, which has struggled to keep the group off its platform. “Facebook is the main channel,” says Furholm, the recruiter.”

You are a Nazi supporter. That has been previously established.

02/02/23 – The Grisly Cult of the Wagner Group’s SledgehammerThe tool Russian mercenaries used to kill a Syrian army deserter and others has become a violent meme, similar to the Punisher logo in the U.S.

The f*cking Russians are deliberately targeting foreign aid workers.

Kinda like we did in Vietnam…and killed plenty of women and children.

Kinda like we did in Iraq: one million dead.

Who the hell do you think your kidding, civ?

I served. Not sure about you, but we vets know a thing or two about what it looks like when the government goes to far.

Yes, America is becoming a police state. Hell, you must love Putin…because you support inventing crime and jailing Trump or any opposition just like Putin does.

At McDonald’s, or in Call of Duty?

I served.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/breaking-democrat-sen-john-fetterman-checks-hospital-depression/

When you want a copy of my DD214, I’ll give it, pig.

You won’t do the same.

Perhaps he was never deployed like the “Indian Brave” that beat his drum in a kids face. He was also a “Vietnam vet”.