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Written by Gavin O’Reilly
In 2013, Ukraine found itself at a crossroads. The former Soviet Republic was in dire financial straits, and had been offered the opportunity to sign an association agreement with the European Union. This would have fostered political and economic ties between Kiev and Brussels, and been an incremental step towards Ukraine becoming a full-member of the bloc.
Ukraine’s Baltic neighbours Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia had all become EU members in 2004, and had also joined NATO in the same year. Ukraine becoming an EU member would have resulted in a political, and potentially military, encirclement of Russia along its western border.
As well as the security risks posed by the association agreement, the ethnic makeup of Ukraine was also a factor. The east of the country was composed primarily of ethnic Russians. This included the Crimean Peninsula which was originally Russian territory, but ceded to Ukraine during the Soviet-era. The eastern Donbass region, comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, also had a majority ethnic Russian population. Taking these factors into account, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych suspended the association agreement in November Protests swept the former Soviet Republic in response.
Though these demonstrations were framed by the European media as an organic response to government corruption, it soon became apparent that external influence was at play. Less than two months prior to Yanukovych’s suspension of the EU agreement, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US NGO that effectively acts as a privatised version of the CIA, published an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for Ukraine to distance itself from Russia.
Victoria Nuland
Within weeks of the unrest beginning in Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, then the US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, appeared in Kiev, where she infamously handed out cookies to demonstrators in the city’s Maidan Square. The same location saw a speech by US Senator John McCain days later. The Ukrainian protests were dubbed Euromaidan as a result.
John McCain
In February 2014, Yanukovych stepped down as a result of the protests, though Ukraine was still beset by instability. Amidst a wave of anti-Russian sentiment that had swept the country, Crimea voted to re-unify with Russia that March, and Donetsk and Luhansk broke away to form independent republics in April. The new EU-backed government of Petro Poroshenko declared war on the Donbass in response.
Fighting would occur until September that year, when a tentative ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk. This collapsed in January 2015, before another agreement was signed that February. The Minsk Accords offered a straightforward solution to the conflict wherein Donetsk and Luhansk would remain under Ukrainian rule, but would be granted a degree of autonomy by Kiev.
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The EU however, sought to scupper the deal. In December 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in an interview with Die Zeit that negotiations had deliberately been stalled so as to give Ukraine time to build itself up militarily. Thousands would die as a result of he Donbass conflict, ultimately leading to another escalation.
On the 24th of February 2022, Russia launched a military intervention into Ukraine. This was to defend Russian minorities in eastern Ukraine, and to destroy any military infrastructure that would have potentially been used against Russia. Despite the operation being an escalation of an existing conflict, rather than the beginning of a new one, the European media establishment saw differently.
Within hours of the launch of the Russian intervention, outlets throughout Europe were adorned with headlines of an ‘unprovoked invasion’. This promoted a narrative that the war had begun that day, and Moscow had decided to attack its neighbour on an imperial whim. Though the war had actually begun in 2014, the conflict had received little press attention in Europe, despite it taking place on the EU’s doorstep. In order to ensure that European audiences remained in the dark on the underlying causes of the conflict, the EU also began to censor Russian media.
In early March 2022, the EU suspended the broadcasting licences of RT and Sputnik. These were two of the largest Russian media outlets available to Europe, and their censorship ensured that EU audiences would be left with an unbalanced portrayal of the conflict. The EU censored even more outlets earlier this year that had been covering the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, SouthFront included.
As well as giving EU audiences an inaccurate portrayal of the war, European media also began lionising Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A relative unknown in the West prior to 2022, Zelenskyy was rapidly propelled to media darling-status following the Russian intervention. Regularly appearing in his trademark khakis, an image of a wartime President, leading from the frontlines, was carefully cultivated by the European media establishment.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
This, in turn, was used to continue support for Ukraine’s war effort. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy paid his first official visit to Ireland, where Taoiseach Micheál Martin pledged €125mn as part of an Irish-Ukrainian partnership agreement. This was despite the fact that the south of Ireland is an ostensibly neutral state.
Though the war in Ukraine began in 2014, the European media establishment has only given it substantial coverage since 2022. This has been a one-sided affair that portrays Ukraine as bravely fighting against an unprovoked Russian invasion, ignoring the causes of the conflict.
The aim is to encourage continued military and financial support for Ukraine, and ultimately expand the EU to Russia’s borders. Even at the cost of a nuclear war.
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povo ucraniano é burro? o que os americanos tinham a oferecer a não ser bolachas? e ainda aplaudiam a victoria nuland nazista. povo idiota. ou voltam pra rússia ou vão pagar com a vida quererem seguir os estados unidos.
nazionalism italian .
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victoria handing out bolachas?
the eu and americans overthrowing the elected government of ukraine is something that needs to be brought up often. that is what caused everything that followed.
80% did not vote on lukasjenko. how is it he now so called won the election with 80%. maybe that is why eu and usa overthrew so called elected persons?
there’s no honest elections anywhere . most likely never has been . it just took them years to groom the right candidates because it was chaotic from the start in a way . organised chaos but now its streamlined
“if voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” – samuel clemens (mark twain)
of course ! it should be replaced by hanging. many authors are spot on.
grow up the elections are rubbish . they wanted this war . the globalist want it and its obvious that they could have stopped it anytime . they want what they want , to own everything .
exactly, everything that followed came from that coup, but they will never admit it.
everything came from the abdication of pope benedict in 2013 . everything followed that .
yeess, but brussels and washington are behind the event horizon, at least for root causes 😂 cheaper to kill serfs.
1,7 trillions eggs laid every year, but not a single birth from a virgin chicken. i guess that only happens with more complicated organisms, as humans…sorry, i eat a egg this evening, but if russia believe in virgin birth, that can explain why they have some problems with root causes 😂
after the nordstream bombing putin remarked “that the surveillance systems used by governments are so complete that everyone in every major country knows exactly what the other countries are doing and that media is only a tool for domestic audiences.” every serious person in government knows the truth about the origins of this conflict and no government anywhere beleives that the ordinary msm viewer is worth anything at all.
correct but to clarify boden made a tiny elite team in control of the internet . there’s total prejudice discrimination and favour. therex no democracy involved it’s totalitarianism . allegedly
no one watches msm anymore that’s just more rigged ” ratings ” fraud . no one believes in their news especially and never has not since i was a wee little kid. everyone knew it was baloney .
why not tell the real history of russia, kiev and ukrainia is the proper capital?
why the sudden change of tactics , so transparently as usual ? wheres the toilet brush approach gone did it get flushed
better you invite your witchdoctor to describe ramses seizures hallucinations senility
did you read it in hieroglyphics on a dunny wall
ukraine was part of russia before wwi and was part of russia /soviet union wwii and is part of russia today. just look who got rich on ukraine and who is getting rich on ukraine misery and war.
same crowd of thieves/gangsters but it become an international gang with the same kings , captains and criers.talking about sovereignty? no !!! just neocolonialism.
kiev let moscow free to form their own nation. when it comes to colonialism, what did the english and french colonies loose, canada and usa for example? i mean today. and why is it others are complaining, and in your case jumping onto victimhood bandwagon. are these your thoughts or do you have collective victimhood like russia without any reasons, only excuses for personal failure and irresponsibility towards society letting oligarchs steal?
society didn’t. the rule of law did . that’s why they stole
common law from everywhere almost , except england , using hitler to hide behind , just as now they’re using ukraine to hide behind while they’re really pushing through globalised new laws. and they’ve got the puppets in place as usual everywhere almost except america . but they know his weakness is business so imo they’re exploiting it . time will tell
no it’s the exact same old king of king’s pulling the strings , there’s one puppet master imo allegedly
correct . the ” wizard of oz in emerald city ” with the megaphone.
no imperialism one world government . from one source . they will pretend it’s the un but they will all be the same class .
what are the ukrainians? mostly slavic /russian people living on part of russia named ukraine. there never was in history nationality ukrainians. germans have no colonies and most of the eastern european countries had no colonies. ukraine is part what germany needs to prosper. ukraine is place with resources.
germany never existed before either. germany did have colonies in africa. and some germans migrated into ukraine and russia at the time before communism because of research, trading, work, relationships. ukraine formed, like france, like russia, like spain to form alliance and protect the central european community against, roman empire, anglicans, ottomans, russotards, vikings. russia defended europe against djingis khan
total load of absolute bs both comments allegedly
and btw trumps admitted exactly what i’ve said all along , the war in ukraine,s getting worse and i think he’s realised that it hasn’t even really even begun . soon will .
the old world order formed after the second world war has collapsed. there is no international law. there is no truth —only interests. it is a regression to the type of thinking in the dark ages. we are indeed entering a new modern, technologically-advanced dark age.
we have been all the time . its the same power structures the same empirialist game just another method of implementation with electronics . they’ve never told the truth . there’s no good way to say we just want to own everything and control everyone . if there was they would .they just need to incorporate russia and remove america as a rival . that’s all .
and yes there is law and that’s the whole point of globalist to have just one authority for rule of law morally , and that is to be the pope . he already is the only church running the un , all catholics everywhere whether kings or queens or president’s prime ministers lawyers judges ceos whatever all have to obey the pope now or they can be removed and that is the real world .
the vatican has that power now but not globally not in iran or russia or north korea or israel. china pretty much but not maybe 100% allegedly
no america was called the new world from the 1500s . it was no popeiroginallt was the plan to escape the inquisition and the vaticans autocratic rule of the infallible pope at the time. the. if you didn’t agree with the pope’s world view on any topic then you could be murdered just like that .
england believed america would be freedom to follow the church of england instead . democratic elections followed after the americans rejected kings totally and ended slavery. thats the enemy of pharaoh’s way .
not quite, lollipop. the pilgrim fathers left england to escape the church of england. the c of e was never protestant, it’s just the english catholic church. look at the anglican crucifix.
very strange that “americans” now has a big campaign “no kings” 😂 you are like pea soup both in population, and in the heads. and hang your “pope”. he can be hanged for burning women alive, the inquistion, and so many other things, that those comment format, and probably also sf database are not enough for to list them.
pope originally they absolutely hide that now in history but that’s the reality the inquisition from spain and the heretic hunters from the vatican combined with and incorporating the witch hunts from the church and crown together was the driving force leading protestants to migrate to north america and even canada. they sent them there to do the dirty work in other words to get it ready for them allegedly
in a recent interview judge napolitano voiced the opinion to pepe escobar that all the problems with the european union are the fault of the protestants – and pepe agreed with him. and in a conversation between the judge and candace owens, both of them were overjoyed that charlie kirk has been going to convert to catholicism. so the vatican’s narratives are still going strong even in supposedly protestant america.
no. its the fault of cia. its a new version of the nazi noblesse, unelected and irresponsible. of course catholicism are strong in “us” ! you only have to mention the inquistion, or the witch burnings ! burning of women alive are very popular in “us” !
fyi the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.
no in this world the scientists are the ideas and the law is the ruling class tne richest are controlled by those two . they use education compulsory education to brain wash even the richest kids ,
pope francis declared that science is to be in effect the new god , the new authority on everything. in other words paganism atheism gnosticism . pagan in that it’s natural sciences , atheism in that it’s not spiritual and gnostic in that they then think they will know it all .
had he ask greta thunberg ?
its because of that newtons laws are not valid in “us” ?
it’s the same game the vaticans never hidden the fact that they are in english , the universal circle. that’s what their name is and that’s what they are
they believe they have the right to own everything in the universe theyve always believed that.
and qe1 was told by john dee , the court astrologer, and they believed in astrology and they still do , that’s england’s destiny was to rule the world .
conflict resolution compromise unity . two heads are better than one .
standard practice is to tell anyone that you want to control that their “destiny is to rule the world”. the vatican has been using this tactic since 1054. in 1066 the vatican sent their mercenary william of normandy to defeat the anglo-saxons and convert them from orthodoxy to catholicism. except for the cromwellian period, england has been under the vatican’s thumb ever since.
probably because of that they declared jesus a god around 300 ac. it was only the psychopaths them self, that declared them self to be god.
they have already ” tested ” thousands of nuclear and atomic weapons literally . they don’t care about a nuclear war they’ve been using depleted uranium in bullets for years now . theres already been massive nuclear power station melt downs . the whole world is saturated already in low level radiation . some more s not going to make much difference.
do not blend “nukes”, power stations and depleted uranium in one soup. i do not think that a single “atomic weapon” have be tested. its to strong indicia, that it was only the nazis postum victory, by trick movies, for to establish free mass murder. visit heiwa co, european agency for safety at sea. you have a way to great trust in “they”.
fake narrative always believed by inferior gullible americunts
its imbecilles, like in nazi germany. only difference are that it have continue much longer, and on a bigger scale. a continent of nazis, hoaxing the whole world from hollywood, to accept mass murder and genocide.
none of those suit and tie wearing mfer’s have any business ordering a real man around. they pussy man
this is despite an overwhelming majority of irish people being very much in favour of neutrality. we are europes and nato’s weak west, russia is about to attack and we must build our defences, get rid of neutrality and ultimately join nato and all its future wars. for our own safety. this is the miserable and pathetic narrative being rammed down the throats of irish people.
do not forget the “nukes” and the “viruses” ! its best you commit suicide for your own best ! this is what literally have happen, and its about the same for all death cults. all they want are to rule the serfs for eternity.
when russia cant tell the truth about 9/11, and about mass murder in the hospitals, of course evil won the narrative war ! the schizofreni are monumental, russia itself tells that ukraine are used as a proxy, but the root cause seems to be behind the event horizon 😂 you got tired of them, its russia that are used as a proxy. send a missile into cia’s brussels. idiot russia, which kill serfs, and spare root causes.
its the other way around; russia will continue to kill serfs, and avoid to harm the root causes, for to avoid a “nuclear war”, or worse, for to avoid expose a “nuclear” hoax 😂