ABSTRACT
This literature review article describes the specific processes leading to the current escalated stage of the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine summarized in one ten step chart. It starts with 1 A. The February 18, 1992 Defense Planning Guidance Draft (DPG) mandating US uni-polar global dominance thereafter to become US official policy, followed by 1 B. October, 1997 “Full Spectrum Dominance” declared by Pentagon. Stage 2 cites the current proxy war in Ukraine as resulting from Euro-American failure to abide by multiple assurances given to Russia that NATO would not expand east beyond its then positions in Western Europe. Stage 3 involves the US led proliferation of biological pathogen research labs in Ukraine, and Stage 4 involves US and allies training, importing funding and arming large numbers of neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Stage 5 outlines the US role in overthrowing the democratically elected Ukraine government in 2014 and Stage 6 briefly describes the US and Ukraine’s failure to abide by terms of the Minsk Ceasefire Agreement. Stage 7 outlines the US directed, Kiev implemented devastating massive escalation of indiscriminate bombing, mortar fire, false flag operations, use of human shields, torture and other armed aggression against citizens of Donbass region in the week leading up to President Putin’s humanitarian intervention on February 24, 2022. Stage 8 briefly describes easily disproved but endlessly repeated lies from the Biden camp and western mainstream media “news” masquerading as “information war.” Stage 9 gives an example of how those lies are then rubber stamped for approval by a US intelligence cabal. Finally Stage 10 describes how those lies are sold to the western voting, tax paying public by corporate owned mainstream media news that has merged perfectly with Hollywood movie production methodologies. It is concluded no one is safe anywhere anymore unless they march lockstep behind the genocidal mandates of the US government that vacillates between Democrat and Republican priorities in regards to who one is supposed to hate and kill most at any one point in time. Note is also made of “disappearing” journalists in Ukraine and mainstream news’ failure to report on the total suppression of all other civil liberties in Ukraine as well.
Introduction
The American war making machine is truly incredible. First, pick a target nation, any nation. Then, tar and feather it, hold it up for mockery and abuse, slander, defame, and abuse it, then provoke with economic and social isolation. If that nation reacts to defend itself in any way, smash and destroy its infrastructure and leader at least.
How did the US go from a relatively amicable relationship with Russia only two years ago, to now standing upon the slippery slope of a precipice potentially leading to WWIII and thermonuclear devastation?
Most behavioral scientists agree events are multi-causally determined with seven, plus or minus two factors (causal chains) leading to any particular event.
Chart 1 below illustrates 10 factors that led the US, Ukraine, Russia and the world to the doorstep of could be extinction of the human species. Extinction? Isn’t that overstating the situation? Possibly not if one considers thermonuclear war would put an end once and for all to American hegemonic control of many if not most countries’ leadership around the world. That would lead to innumerable revolutions, and the high probability that many or most of those nations in conflict would experience electrical outages. Those electrical outages would result in freezers containing biological pathogens in the 300+ US biological research labs around the world defrosting, leading to release of most of the world’s known and many unknown diseases. Those disease would quickly spread around the world aided by a global lack of sanitation, clean water, food and health services. The probability of anyone being able to build immunities to all of them approaches zero or at most one in a million. Hence, the possibility of human extinction.
Chart 1 - Processes that led to the proxy war between the US and Russia in Ukraine
(References are presented immediately following this chart.)
Evidence
1. DPG Mandates US Unipolar World & Pentagon’s Full-Spectrum Dominance
A. February 18, 1992 DPG draft
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb245/index.htm
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/1992_draft_defense_planning_guidance
B. Pentagon’s Full-Spectrum Dominance
“Full spectrum dominance” was first used in the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review.
The book warrants three critiques. First, the motives that drive irregular warfare are multifaceted. Although the book frames counter-terrorism as the driver of irregular warfare, the book’s cases show that other interests, such as access to energy resources and diplomatic goals, can also motivate irregular warfare.
In other words, “full spectrum dominance” isn’t necessarily all about combating terrorism but can be used to steal a nation’s oil, other natural resources and/or to attain geostrategic goals.
2. The US, and many European nations including Ukraine’s refusal to honor terms of agreements regarding NATO not expanding east after 1991
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-nato-and-why-was-it-created/a-60688639
3. A. Thirty or more American sponsored biological research centers with potential “dual use” pathogens (defensive and offensive) proliferated around Ukraine
Despite practically every mainstream news outlet in the US and Google search results screaming “there are no US biological research labs in Ukraine,” claiming it to be a Russian hoax, at least three US government officials have admitted it.
It wasn’t just Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland admitting to US research on deadly pathogens in Ukraine. Other top US officials admitted the same thing including deputy director of operations, readiness and exercises at the DTRA from 2017 until 2020 Robert Pope and head of U.S. Embassy Kyiv's Defense Threat Reduction Office Joanna Wintrol. And then emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop emerged proving his participation in greatly expanding that biological pathogen research. Though at first discredited as Russian “propaganda,” eventually even New York Times acknowledged those claims.
Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal, raising more questions about the disgraced son of then vice president - By Josh Boswell, 25 March 2022
The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine. / However, the allegations were branded a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US. / But emails and correspondence obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter's abandoned laptop show the claims may well be true. / The emails show Hunter helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases. He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine. / The president's son and his colleagues invested $500,000 in Metabiota through their firm Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners. / They raised several million dollars of funding for the company from investment giants including Goldman Sachs
Someone can legitimately do research on Anthrax and Cholera. However, those same pathogens can be used as weapons, and furthermore there can be containment leaks. Given that biological pathogens can be as deadly as nuclear weapons, those labs in Ukraine present a significant, clear and present danger to the security of Russia.
Even if there had been not US orchestrated coup in Ukraine, no neo-Nazis, no slaughter of innocents, the presence of those biological research labs alone was sufficient justification for Russia’s limited military intervention to secure those deadly pathogens and destroy them.
It was the US and US alone of the 182 signatories to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), that pulled out of negotiations for a checking mechanism in 2001.
US rejects biological weapons convention protocol, by Fred Charatan
BMJ. 2001 Jun 2; 322(7298): 1326. PMCID: PMC1173329
There are no verification mechanisms for the BWC because the US would not permit it. Begging the question, who is hiding something here?
It appears the biological research in Ukraine goes back at least to 2007 though Russian sources report 2004.
Biden family profits from expanding biological research facilities in Ukraine
https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/jim-jordan-hunter-biden-texts-ties-in-the-entire-family/
4. US promoting and arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
A. Right wing extremists and Neo-Nazis identified as greatest terrorism threat in the USA.
White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says
White Supremacists Top Domestic Terror Threat, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/domestic-terror-white-supremacists.html
A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States
B. US and allies promoting and arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/08/us-arming-of-ukraine-is-a-scandal-on-its-own
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine/5371554
Ultra-right Svoboda Party
Ukraine Transition Government: Neo-Nazis in Control of Armed Forces, National Security, Economy, Justice and Education, article by Greg Rose in Canadian Global Research magazine, March 2, 2014
Azov
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-collusion-with-neo-nazis
And…
2019.10.08 https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/08/us-arming-of-ukraine-is-a-scandal-on-its-own/
2019.09.23 https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/23/bomb-extremist-us-soldier-fbi-ukrainian-nazi-azov
2018.12.10 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/10/nato-ukraine-president-poroshenko-nazi-soldier-totenkopf/
2018.10.30 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/10/30/c14-ukrainian-nazi-kiev-police-america-house/
2018. 07.10 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/07/10/ukraine-embassy-israel-arming-nazis-max-blumenthal/
2018.07.09 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/07/09/yuri-biryukov-ukraine-president-adviser-heil-hitler-neo-nazi/
2018.02.05 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/02/05/max-blumenthal-us-is-arming-neo-nazis-in-ukraine/
2014.03.13 https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/revolutions-pretext-imperialism
But! There is never or hardly ever a word in American mainstream media about how the US is using neo-Nazis to do their bidding in Ukraine despite the fact that all the top law enforcement groups acknowledge right-wing neo-Nazi extremist groups are the Number 1 terror threat to the US and world. So, yes, the US is most certainly using terrorists again, just like in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on.
It is the US that creates those terrorist groups in the first place and then uses them as “deniable cutouts” to do their dirty work like stealing natural resources and in this case as part of the American drive for “hegemony in perpetuity,” that is the attainment and preservation of US global domination forever.
Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Racism
What happened to Jews, Gypsies and other minorities in Germany leading up to WWII is precisely the same as what happened, and continues to happen to minorities in Ukraine.
5. US Role in overthrowing Ukraine government
A. Planning for the overthrow of Ukraine’s government started in 2011 http://washingtonsblog.com/2016/09/three-big-lies-pervade-americas-news-media.html
https://www.fort-russ.com/2015/02/the-paet-ashton-transcrip
B. Implementation of the overthrow of Ukraine government started in 2013 http://washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/new-video-evidence-americas-coup-ukraine-means.html
C. US Victoria Nuland’s role in overthrowing Ukraine’s democratic government, 2014 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/04/19/history-of-the-ukrainian-war/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658245
[PDF] Ukraine Over the Edge Download Full – PDF Book Download (all-med.net) Book: Rigorous analysis of the cultural, historical, and intellectual origins of the Ukrainian crisis
6. US/Ukraine failure to abide by terms of Minsk Ceasefire Agreement
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/15/us-eu-sacrificing-ukraine-to-weaken-russia-fmr-nato-adviser
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2451
Chart 2 – Three factor analysis leading to President Putin’s intervention in Ukraine
Numbers 1 and 2 above justify self-defense measures up to and including a temporary military incursion. Only #3 dealt with a purely humanitarian intervention, and oddly enough that was what finally caused President Biden to finally cross the Rubicon, the red line drawn by those in DC who see themselves as above all laws. Had the UNSC done something to stop the killing, instead of just OSCE “monitoring” the situation, military intervention by President Putin would not have happened. That passive monitoring is so reminiscent of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda in which the UN stood passively by and let them happen. That was also during the time a Democrat was in the White House. As the old proverb states: “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” And thus, President Putin does not deserve the vilification he has endured since February 24, 2022 from western Mainstream Media (MSM).
7. OSCE reports on Kiev’s rapid acceleration of genocide in Donbass region starting Feb. 21 (Extreme provocation saturated in blood of innocents)
A. Unverified report from anonymous US sources (“Biden administration officials”) claiming deal between Moscow and Beijing to wait on Russian “attack” against Ukraine until after 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This is a “smear job” on both Russia and China without any evidence whatsoever.
B. The more obvious and verifiable motivation for the timing of President Putin’s intervention in Ukraine stems from a massive increase in bombing and shelling of Donbass region starting February 18 by Ukrainian forces as verified by OSCE monitors. Russia had seen the encroachment of NATO, the buildup of biological “research centers,” and other Euro-American weapons of mass destruction and neo-Nazi forces for many years. But what finally triggered his intervention in Ukraine was the sudden massive escalation of killing by Kiev in Donbass constituting a genocide and as verified by OSCE reports cited below.
Links and data below obtained by search April 21, 2022 from this link.
Online OSCE Reports
Issued on Feb. 19 covering Feb. 18 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512629 Daily Report 39/2022
Issued on Feb 21 covering Feb. 18-20 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683 (Daily Report 40/2022)
Issued Feb 22 covering Feb 21: https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512842 (Daily Report 41/2022)
Issued Feb. 23 2022 covering Feb. 22 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512872 (Daily Report 42/2022)
On the 24th Russia began counter-offensive measures in East Ukraine
The OSCE Report issued on Feb. 24 does not cover the 23rd, but only pertains to the Russian intervention beginning on the 24th.
Issued Feb, 24 covering Feb. 24 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512980 (Daily Report 43/2022)
Below is a map and charts from OSCE PDFs listed above (The trigger that that actually did finally elicited President Putin’s humanitarian intervention in Ukraine.)
BELOW data issued on Feb. 19 covering Feb. 18 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512629 Daily Report 39/2022
Also issued on February 19 reviewing observations from Feb. 18.
Below issued on Feb 21 covering Feb. 18-20 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683 (Daily Report 40/2022)
Below issued Feb 22 covering Feb 21: https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512842 (Daily Report 41/2022)
Below issued Feb. 23 2022 covering Feb. 22 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512872 (Daily Report 42/2022)
On the 24th Russia began counter-offensive measures in East Ukraine
The OSCE Report issued on Feb. 24 does not cover the 23rd, but only pertains to the Russian intervention beginning on the 24th.
Why didn’t they report ceasefire violations for the 23rd? What happened that day that finally triggered President Putin’s response on the 24th? Is the OSCE covering for the European and US role in this horror-filled war?
Absolutely everything on the Euro-American side of this war stinks of political corruption, censorship, and betrayal of all the values that are supposed to make Western or any civilization better than the law of the jungle.
Issued Feb, 24 covering Feb. 24 https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512980 (Daily Report 43/2022)
No maps or charts - nothing relating to ceasefire violations on the 23rd. Only reports concerning Russia’s intervention.
In any case map and charts illustrate a massive increase in lethal violence directed at Donbass in the week leading up to and justifying President Putin’s humanitarian intervention.
How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It - By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Global Research, February 28, 2022 / President Biden has called the Russian invasion “unprovoked,” but that is far from the truth. In the four days leading up to the invasion, ceasefire monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) documented a dangerous increase in ceasefire violations in Eastern Ukraine, with 5,667 violations and 4,093 explosions. / Most were inside the de facto borders of the Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR) People’s Republics, consistent with incoming shell-fire by Ukraine government forces. With nearly 700 OSCE ceasefire monitors on the ground, it is not credible that these were all “false flag” incidents staged by separatist forces, as U.S. and British officials claimed.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-us-started-cold-war-russia-left-ukraine-fight-it/5772361 (Extreme Provocation)
And yet President Biden keeps lying: “…unprovoked attack!”
8. Lies from the Biden camp, western and Ukrainian media masquerading as “information war”
President Biden’s two biggest lies:
“Unprovoked attack” and “peaceful Ukraine”
Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. - Government Policy and Related Concerns - U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance - Majority Staff Report, found the minority, Hunter Biden, Vice President Biden to have falsely accused the Chairmen of engaging in a Russian disinformation campaign and used other tactics to interfere in lawful investigation.
THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE (Joseph Biden) AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board continued to be an issue State Department officials had to manage when executing U.S. / Ukraine policy. More than a year after Kent reported his concerns to the vice president’s staff, he wrote to his superiors that Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board was “very awkward” to those on the front lines pushing anticorruption efforts in Ukraine on a daily basis.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf (Bold added by this author)
That is a U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security report, not Russian disinformation. And yet, the Bidens accused the Chairman of that committee of Russian disinformation!
Also see: https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/gop-senators-release-explosive-report-on-hunter-biden-burisma/
Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma exec and adviser to its board, sent Hunter Biden an April 17, 2015, email that said, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”
https://nypost.com/2022/04/06/heres-a-dozen-times-joe-biden-played-a-role-in-hunters-deals/
2022.03.21 Barr: Biden ‘lied to the American people’ about his son Hunter’s emails. By Bruce Golding Former US Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday accused President Biden of having “lied to the American people” during a presidential debate when he called the Post’s exposure of his son Hunter Biden’s emails “a Russian plant.” / ... / During the Oct. 22, 2020, debate, Trump suggested the emails showed Biden was “a corrupt politician” and called his scandal-scarred son’s computer “the laptop from hell.” / Biden responded that “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of, is a Russian plant.” / “They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties — say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.” https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/barr-biden-lied-to-the-american-people-about-his-hunters-emails/
9. Lies rubber stamped by US intelligence cabal
GOP demands ‘experts’ who dismissed Hunter Biden laptop fess up — or face subpoenas, by Steven Nelson, April 6, 2022
WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding that 51 former intelligence operatives divulge information about their 2020 statement that documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation — with a senior GOP aide telling The Post that the ex-spies should expect subpoenas next year if they fail to comply.
All 19 Republicans on the panel signed a letter to the intelligence community stalwarts demanding records on their claim that the laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” — a statement which helped the Biden campaign discourage pre-election coverage of emails linking Joe Biden to his son’s business ventures in China and Ukraine.
A year and a half after The Post first reported on the hard drive contents, the Washington Post and New York Times recently said they verified the veracity of the data as a federal investigation into the first son over possible tax fraud, money laundering and foreign lobbying crimes heats up.
“We now know from subsequent reporting that the New York Post’s article about Hunter Biden was not, as you and your co-signatories alleged, part of a ‘Russian information operation’,” the GOP letter says. “This belated verification of the Post’s reporting raises fresh questions about the public statement you signed in October 2020.” …
https://nypost.com/2022/04/06/gop-demands-experts-who-dismissed-hunter-biden-laptop-fess-up/
10. Mainstream media complicity
Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine, by John McEvoy, February 23, 2022
When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission. / In the case of the recent crisis in Ukraine, Western journalists have omitted key context about the expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War, as well as US support for the Maidan coup in 2014 (FAIR.org, 1/28/22). / A third and crucial case of propaganda by omission relates to the integration of neo-Nazis into the Ukrainian armed forces (FAIR.org, 3/7/14, 1/28/22). If the corporate media reported more critically about Western support for the neo-Nazi-infested Ukrainian security services, and how these forces function as a front-line proxy of US foreign policy, public support for war might be reduced and military budgets called into greater question. / As recent coverage demonstrates, one way of resolving this issue is by not mentioning the inconvenient matter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis altogether…
https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine
We can see here a blending between truth and lies. While strikes would hit the warehouse, and the Red Cross would confirm that (and also, that it had been abandoned for more than two weeks by that time and all aid was distributed), no evidence was given that the strikes were Russian and the Red Cross did not comment on it. / The only source for the claim that the attacks were Russian is the Azov Battalion, putting the credibility of the statement into serious doubt. Kyiv Independent does not tell you this.
In other words, whenever Azov, an openly right-wing neo-Nazi group makes totally unsubstantiated claims in Ukraine, the whole western media world treats it as holy writ and presents it as proven fact. This is in spite of the fact the US Department of Homeland Security classified right-wing white supremacist groups exactly like Azov to be the Number 1 security threat to the USA.
Big Media and Big Tech got away with censoring The Post — and me, by John Stossel, April 7, 2022
The New York Post broke the laptop story near the end of the presidential campaign. The story was explosive, of course, and the media pile-on intense. Some piled on Hunter Biden, but more piled on The Post. They questioned the authenticity of the hard drive and the timing and accuracy of the story. / Twitter blocked the story from even being shared. Facebook hid the story. Politico said it might be “Russian disinformation.” A Washington Post column called it “laughably weak.” A New York Times piece labeled it a “farcical retread of the Russian hack-and-leak operation that helped torpedo Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations.” The story was mocked and buried. / Now, a year and a half later, The Washington Post and Times admit that major parts of the story were accurate. Do you know what they haven’t said? / “Sorry. We cannot stand the idea of another Trump term, so we didn’t report on bad things Democrats did.” / The Washington Post finally wrote that the way the media handled the story was an “opportunity for a reckoning.” But then it spent the rest of its editorial making excuses for its mistakes. / No one was fired. No one was suspended. No policy was changed. / This is nothing new… / I feel far more threatened when America’s Big Media don’t report facts, don’t speak up when censors are wrong and don’t remove mistakes when they’re caught making them / Apologizing for mistakes is something we teach little kids to do. Is that too much to ask of our media and social-media giants?
https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/big-media-and-big-tech-got-away-with-censoring-the-new-york-post
Meta-analysis and conclusions
For eight long years President Putin was forced to watch the grim horror of human beings – men, women and children - being indiscriminately slaughtered on his doorstep in Donbass because they strongly objected to the American driven coup in Ukraine and do nothing. It was planned in 2011, with the implementation beginning in 2013, and final coup taking place in 2014. And again, he did nothing. He did nothing in response to broken agreements as NATO moved east right up to his borders. He did nothing as 30+ biological “research” centers were established just south in Ukraine, and he did nothing as thousands of US financed and trained neo-Nazi groups – under the direct guidance of the US State Department took control of the Ukraine government and was incorporated into the military of Ukraine. However, when the slaughter of those innocents – men, women and children in Donbass region of Ukraine objecting to that US driven coup suddenly increased 100-fold in the week leading up to February 24, he finally reacted as American so-called “defense” planners knew he would.
President Putin didn’t have a choice regarding his decision to launch the dual humanitarian intervention/self-defense motivated invasion of Ukraine. The weight of the evidence strongly suggests it was the humanitarian intervention that triggered the intervention, because the vaunted UN was doing nothing about the hugely escalated genocide in Donbass region during the week leading up to that humanitarian intervention as the referenced verifiable Timeline above demonstrates. Only President Putin had the courage and military might to do something to stop it. Meanwhile, President Biden repeatedly lied to cover up his role in approving that rapid escalation in the genocide in Donbass in the days leading up to president Putin’s intervention while endlessly repeating that President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” President Biden’s motivations were two-fold: 1) to cover his and his son’s corrupt business practices in Ukraine, and 2) in accordance with the illegal goal (as defined by international law) of ensuring US world dominance forever (“hegemony in perpetuity”).
War Crimes of the most egregious forms have been committed in Ukraine, primarily by those US financed, trained and armed neo-Nazi groups by also by the regular Ukraine army. Right-wing extremist neo-Nazi groups have been identified as the primary source of terrorism in the US by the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and other US government officials as well. And yet, President Biden has given them a free hand to perpetuate their reign of terror upon all in Ukraine that do not acquiesce to the American takeover of the Ukraine government in 2014 and western mainstream media has gone along with the big lie.
Instead of being vilified, President Putin should be given the Nobel Peace Prize (not Zelensky), and it is President Biden, his top cabinet officials, and members of the House of Representatives with the “appearance of conflict of interest,” that should be vilified, put on trial and held to account for the uncountable crimes committed in Ukraine.
Top Cabinet officials’ appearance of conflict of interest
https://prospect.org/world/how-biden-foreign-policy-team-got-rich
All wars are sickening and I’ve seen pretty many of them, but this is the most sickening of them all. Why? It’s so sweetly done, so poignant, so perfectly sold to western audiences like the hit movie of the decade.
To make that point, I’ll repring part of the most recent story by Grayzone news and let them explain.
Zelensky’s Hardline Internal Purge, by Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy, April 20, 2022
“Ukraine’s ‘pro-democracy’ president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents, Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy report.
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed his country’s war against Russia as a battle for democracy itself. In a carefully choreographed address to U.S. Congress on March 16, Zelensky stated, “Right now, the destiny of our country is being decided. The destiny of our people, whether Ukrainians will be free, whether they will be able to preserve their democracy.”
“U.S. corporate media has responded by showering Zelensky with fawning press, driving a campaign for his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and inspiring a flamboyant musical tribute to himself and the Ukrainian military during the 2022 Grammy awards ceremony on April 3.
“Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia.
“Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.
“‘There is one less traitor in Ukraine,” Internal Affairs Ministry adviser Anton Geraschenko stated in an endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia.
“Zelensky has further exploited the atmosphere of war to outlaw an array of opposition parties and order the arrest of his leading rivals. His authoritarian decrees have triggered the disappearance, torture and even murder of an array of human rights activists, communist and leftist organizers, journalists and government officials accused of “pro-Russian” sympathies.
“The Ukrainian SBU security services have served as the enforcement arm of the officially authorized campaign of repression. With training from the C.I.A. and close coordination with Ukraine’s state-backed neo-Nazi paramilitaries, the SBU has spent the past weeks filling its vast archipelago of torture dungeons with political dissidents.
“On the battlefield, meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has engaged in a series of atrocities against captured Russian troops and proudly exhibited its sadistic acts on social media. Here too, the perpetrators of human rights abuses appear to have received approval from the upper echelons of Ukrainian leadership.
“While Zelensky spouts bromides about the defense of democracy before worshipful Western audiences, he is using the war as a theater for enacting a blood-drenched purge of political rivals, dissidents and critics.
“‘The war is being used to kidnap, imprison and even kill opposition members who express themselves critical of the government,” a left-wing activist beaten and persecuted by Ukraine’s security services commented this April. “We must all fear for our freedom and our lives.”
Torture & Enforced Disappearances
“When a U.S.-backed government seized power in Kiev following the Euromaidan regime-change operation of 2013-14, Ukraine’s government embarked on a nationwide purge of political elements deemed pro-Russian or insufficiently nationalistic.
“The passage of ‘ laws by the Ukrainian parliament further eased the persecution of leftist elements and the prosecution of activists for political speech.
“The post-Maidan regime has focused its wrath on Ukrainians who have advocated a peace settlement with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, those who have documented human rights abuses by the Ukrainian military and members of communist organizations. Dissident elements have faced the constant threat of ultra-nationalist violence, imprisonment and even murder.
“The Ukrainian security service known as the SBU has served as the main enforcer of the post-Maidan government’s campaign of domestic political repression. Pro-Western monitors including the United Nations Office of the High Commission (UN OHCR) and Human Rights Watch have accused the SBU of systematically torturing political opponents and Ukrainian dissidents with near-total impunity.
“The UN OHCR found in 2016 that “arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of such conflict-related detainees were common practice of SBU… A former Kharkiv SBU officer explained, ‘For the SBU, the law virtually does not exist as everything that is illegal can be either classified or explained by referring to state necessity.’ ”
“Yevhen Karas, the founder of the infamous neo-Nazi C14 unit, has detailed the close relationship his gang and other extreme right factions have enjoyed with the SBU. The SBU “informs not only us, but also Azov, the Right Sector and so on,” Karas boasted in a 2017 interview…”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/20/zelenskys-hardline-internal-purge/
The day after reading that (yesterday, April 21, 2022) I noticed an article published in Russia 2day and reprinted in a New Zealand newspaper by Scott Ritter, one of the best informed of the alt-news writers today.
An American journalist goes missing in Ukraine. The silence is deafening
Gonzalo Lira’s disappearance should have triggered outrage and calls for an investigation by the “freedom-loving” US government and media by Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector, April 21, 2022
Gonzo’s pinned Tweet from March 26, in which he listed the names of eight Ukrainian politicians, journalists, dissidents, and human rights figures who had either been killed, arrested, or gone missing since the war with Russia had broken out, jumped out at me. The idea of having just completed a live-streamed interview lasting more some 77 minutes at a time when the Ukrainian SBU, which undoubtedly possesses considerable cyber skills sufficient to geolocate a lengthy online presence such as the YouTube broadcast we had just finished, bothered me – especially in light of Gonzo’s own self-expressed concerns, and I said as much.
Gonzalo Lira was fatalistic about his future. “I know the risks,” he said. “And I take precautions.”
To make a long story short Gonzalo Lira was an American journalist and longtime inhabitant of Kharkiv city in eastern Ukraine. Because he was a good journalist and had good connections in the resistance movement, he “disappeared” sometime April 15th or 16th. His whereabouts are still unknown and he is presumed dead, unless the American backed neo-Nazis that kidnapped him are still torturing him for information.
This is not a surprise, but rather the normal state of affairs in American backed dictatorships like Zelinsky’s in Ukraine. That’s how it was during the Shah of Iran’s American backed state with SAVAK doing most of the torturing and killing. That’s the way it always is in American colonies around the world.
Let there be no doubt about it, the USA is the world’s number one practitioner and exporter of torture, whether it’s done directly by the CIA in Black Site prisons, “regular” American prisons, or by proxies like the Ukrainian military and most especially its American funded, trained, organized, and fully supported neo-Nazis.
Take for example Gina Haspel. She was made “famous” by “virtue” of being chief of a CIA black site in 2002 in which prisoners were tortured with so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", including waterboarding. And so naturally she was promoted to the position of Director of CIA 2018 to 2021, because, as then President Trump gleefully noted: “Torture works!” (In spite of the fact that it doesn’t.)
That is sickening, and not the half of it.
Why does the US always do the horrible things they falsely accuse their “enemy of the moment” of doing? And then, years or decades later when the truth finally comes out, it’s quickly brushed aside and the whole thing forgotten by American audiences who have more cheerful things to think about because most still are physically intact, and have a family, a home and food.
The disposed, however, the marginalized, the hungry, the homeless, those crippled by American wars and torture, and the hopeless might look to President Putin and silently cheer him on.
Within the US the ranks of the disposed are growing quickly, possibly passing 50% by now.
That fact alone indicates the reign of terror of western hegemony, the decline and fall of the unholy American empire might be soon at hand.
The two critical questions here are: Can the US become part of the human family in a cooperative and peaceful manner(?), or will the whole world have to pay with blood and agony as it brings the entire human species down with it?
“A time would come when Rome would be torn down—not by the slaves alone, but by slaves and serfs and peasants and by free barbarians who joined with them.
“And so long as men labored, and other men took and used the fruit of those who labored, the name of Spartacus would be remembered, whispered sometimes and shouted loud and clear at other times.”
The last two paragraphs of the novel Spartacus, by Howard Fast, New York City, June 1951 – written while in prison for the crime of being socialist during the last Red Scare.
Caption: Hector and Ajax separated by the Heralds (Public Domain)
Hubris is excessive pride (or "overweening" pride), and is often called "the pride that comes before the fall." It had serious consequences in Greek tragedy and law.
The protagonist Ajax in Sophocles' Ajax tragedy exhibits hubris by thinking he does not need the help of Zeus…
https://www.thoughtco.com/crime-of-hubris-in-greek-tragedy-118996
It is hoped readers, (if US censors don’t illegally and completely black-out this article), remember Gonzalo Lira and others who are fighting the good fight against American-driven absolute fascism, call and write to their congressional representatives, demand the release of those good people IMMEDIATELY, and demand the USA back off this entire murderous/suicidal war in Ukraine and other US wars, NOW.
My goals are simple. I would like the USA to become great for the first time its history by ending its expansionist wars and building things instead of just destroying them. This white supremacist American drive to erase all history before the Greeks and assume the role of colonial master of the entire world forever is psychopathological, due to failure and ultimately self-destructive as the legends of Hubris and Prometheus so strongly suggest.
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A PDF version of the above article can be downloaded from:
https://archive.org/details/processes-resulting-in-the-ukraine-war
— A 346-page book on this same topic by this author titled: The Ukraine War – A masterpiece of political and media deception can be downloaded from: https://archive.org/details/the-ukraine-war-2022-a-masterpiece-of-deception
That book contains among other things 100 Questions for President Biden, legal analysis, and a mix of both western, Russian and Chinese news sources.
Please note: this article contains only western news sources. That should make it a little safer to share for westerners, given the harsh censorship of foreign perspectives these days.
Also please consider reading some of my other books and articles:
https://archive.org/details/alt-news-during-the-3rd-red-scare
https://archive.org/details/a-brief-rev-of-american-censorship-mech-and-law
White “Christian” Terrorism - Three Hundred Fifty-Seven Million Reasons You Should Work for Peace, written using the nom de plume Jonny Wycliffe (a reformation philosopher) available for free at: https://archive.org/details/1-wct-vol.-1-may-2020
White “Christian” Terrorism Vol. 2 – Age of the Caligulas https://archive.org/details/wct-2-age-of-the-caligulas
We are Innocent – Islam, peace solidarity, and The Great Linking Project Proposal
https://archive.org/details/1-we-are-innocent-islam-the-great-linking
Treatment Plan for Euro-American Leaders’ Pathological Greed and The Hate Pandemics They Cultivate to Feed it
https://archive.org/details/treatment-for-the-greed-hate-disorder
Medieval America – Torturing and Murdering Heretical Scientists, Reporters and the Poor https://archive.org/details/medieval-america
If you smile at me – A Reminder for Americans
Please download the above works and store on an external hard drive somewhere, as I suspect the entire internet will go down as soon as WWIII really heats up and given current trends that is a distinct possibility. After WWIII books and articles on the causes of that war may be difficult to find, along with food, water, etc.