Nato Proxy War Against Russia In Ukraine
Have a good look at all the evidence here that this is American war against Russia using NATO and Ukraine as pawns and cannon fodder to serve American interests
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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. Did you read the this “Reality Checks” segment from the beginning? Please, do so for a better grasp of the topic of this article: The Real Beginning of the War in Ukraine.
“Mark my words: When the dust settles, we will learn that Ukraine was the largest CIA operation in history.”[+][+] – Mike Benz, former US State Department official – Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Policy[+]
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” – African proverb
Most of the people even in the West know by now that this is US or NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine as even the polls[+] in NATO countries (such as Germany and France) show but we provide here the evidence for the few that are not aware of it yet.
Nonbelievers can save themselves a lot of time and skip to the next article if they just watch this one video[»] evidence of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who actually started the war (an escalation from an armed conflict to a full-fledged war) by imposing Ukraine to abandon a peace deal in April 2022, where he openly, shamelessly admits in November 2024: “Let's face it, we are waging a proxy war.”
“The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as a direct confrontation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said[+]. Even though NATO denies[»] being party to the war or conflict, Russia and the Global Majority[+] can't be fooled. Can you?
NATO has been a “de facto” party to the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, as it controls Ukrainian arms supplies and helps to plan attacks on Russia. Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2014, NATO has provided Kyiv with billions worth of military aid and weaponry, as well as sharing intelligence and helping to train Ukrainian troops. Washington and its allies have been actively arming Ukraine ever since the NATO-funded and orchestrated 2014 Maidan coup in Kyiv. NATO collectively decides on the quantity and types of weapons its members provide to Ukrainian troops to kill the Russians. NATO instructors also train mercenaries and sabotage units on several nations’ territories to be used in anti-Russian operations. Stirring up Russophobia and whipping up the perceived “Russian threat” has also turned into a “major policy” for the West. Anti-Russian hysteria ultimately benefits the US war profiteers such as their military industrial complex.[+]
As all Istanbul 2022 peace negotiators confirm, the whole conflict could have been solved in March 2022 (just weeks after Russia launched its SMO in Ukraine) if Ukraine accepted to remain neutral rather than join NATO. Ukrainian delegation, including President Zelensky, already accepted that but then NATO officials (represented by then-British PM Boris Johnson) intervened and sabotaged the peace deal as they wanted to lure Ukraine into NATO and so expand more to Russian borders. So, the only reason why this conflict escalated into a war is because NATO wants to expand its military infrastructure towards Russian borders so as to contain and weaken it.
NATO is a euphemism for the US, as we all know that NATO is led and controlled by the US with Pentagon as HQ. All NATO major decisions are made by the Pentagon and the White House. All NATO states were lured into joining the US military alliance to preserve American and partly Western hegemony which has been challenged by Russia and China. They are all at war with Russia to varying degrees of engagement, of course. But, in essence, we’re dealing with the US proxy war against Russia.
But there is much more depth to it, as NATO is just a military alliance which is ruled not by Pentagon or the US – the US and NATO authorities are pawns in a larger scheme, which we do not want to get into now, not just because to avoid being labelled as “conspiracy theorists” but because this is beside the point of this initiative. We are not here to blame or vilify anyone but to propose insights to end this war.
That said, we need to pinpoint that this war is not between Ukraine and Russia or NATO and Russia but between two forces that have a variety of players on both side. This is a war between Putin and Klaus Schwab[»] (and his World Economic Forum – the Davos crowd) or between Putin and the globalists (eager to establish one world government where they, Western white supremacists, rule the world). This is why Putin and Russia have many supporters also among the Westerners who believe that anyone who goes against Schwab or the globalists is a force for good.
This is a war between Russian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church that fell under influence of Vatican or the ruling Jesuits whereby embracing ecumenical, globalist agenda (UOC changed the date of Christmas adapting it to Catholic date; it embraced LGBTQ+ agenda…).
This is a war between Russia and the neolib & neocon globalists who run the US Deep State, but the Jesuits run them and most of the world[*] (who during times they were banned formed secret societies such as Illuminati, Freemasons, etc. and now both white and black Popes are Jesuits who are puppet masters of most governments).
Moreover, this is a war between Russia and the oppressors who deny the ethnic Russians the right of self-determination as enshrined in the UN Charter, whereas the same right was granted by local and international communities to Kosovo, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, South Sudan[+], etc.
As far as Ukraine's allies among NATO states are concerned, the war in Ukraine has nothing to do with helping Ukraine retain its sovereignty or defend its territorial integrity and everything to do with degrading the Russian military and weakening Vladimir Putin’s grip on power[+]. It is an attempt at a regime change in Russia[+].
Nothing of the sort happened but the contrary. Putin is stronger than ever, wrote Newsweek[+] in February 2024. This is also confirmed by the results of the 2024 presidential elections[+], in which 87% voters voted for him in record-high voter turnout. Thanks to NATO’s dealings, the Russian military is also now stronger than ever[+] and Putin is more popular than ever among both his people[+][+][»][»][»] and the world[+][»][+][+][ꚛ][»][+][»][»].
According to Morning Consult Political Intelligence, WCIOM, KIIS, and World of Statistics[+], in February 2024, Putin was the most popular leader in the world, as his approval ratings were 79%. Putin's popularity increased and reached a record high even in the US[+]!
Putin is definitely more popular or interesting than Zelensky, as evidenced by interviews with both of them – for instance, in February 2024, both of them gave interviews to American journalists and in the first 24 hours the interview with Putin[»][»] got over 106 million views (over 208 million views by the end of the month on X; over 215 million views on X plus over 20 million views on YouTube by the end of the year, despite X being banned1 in Russia so no views from there) while the interview with Zelensky[»] got only 100 thousand views2[+] (only 162 thousand views by the end of the month; over 172 thousand views by the end of the year) on a FoxNews YouTube channel that had 11 million subscribers at that time (Tucker Carlson had around the same amount followers on Twitter, 12 million)! Tucker’s interview with Putin was the most watched video of all-time on X[+] – evidence that Putin is a leader that people are the most interested in.
There are so many Putinophiles and Putinversteher that the terms made it into an American dictionary[+][+] but there are no Zelenskyphiles or Bidenophiles in dictionaries or encyclopedias or elsewhere.
Even some Americans[»][»] prefer Putin to Biden, foreigners get a Putin tattoo[»], want to be Putin's son[»][»] and have him as a mentor, foreign soccer fans chant[»][»][»] “Putin”, young Vietnamese[»] admire Putin, American actor (Russian citizen since 2016) Steven Seagal3 said[»] “I don’t want to say Russia is the greatest country in the world, but for me it is”, American boxer Kevin Johnson decided to pay his respects to Putin by adding the patronymic "Vladimirovich" to his name[»] and wearing[»] a T-shirt with Putin's face on it, like others in Africa[»], “Putin Team” stores opened in China, India, and UAE[+], US Congressman Jared Moskowitz came[»] to Biden's impeachment hearing wearing a Putin mask, according to a survey conducted by the World of Statistics[+][+], Putin is much more respected world leader than Biden and Zelensky, global youth leaders praise Putin at World Youth Forum in Sochi[»] and proudly show off their Putin dolls[»], billboards with portraits of Putin adorn the Lebanese capital[ꚛ], the head of the party "Fighters for Economic Freedom" of South Africa use[»] slogan "We are Putin, and Putin is us", and the list goes on. Nothing of the kind happens with Zelensky, Biden or any other Western leaders, who surely envy Putin for his world-wide popularity. Here[ꚛ] is also UN Secretary General Guterres respectfully bowing and shaking the hand of Putin in Russia’s Kazan at the BRICS summit in October 2024.
Pan-Arabist news TV channel Almayadeen reported[+] “Putin: A Champion of the Global South” – the publication notes that "the true achievement lies in Putin's defiance of NATO. It lies in challenging the forces that for years have kept the masses in a state of social, ideological, and historical paralysis. Where the West sees aggression and destabilization, the South sees retribution. The fact is that Russia was deceived by the West over the Minsk agreement."
Everybody among the Western ruling elites wanted this war except Putin[+]. NATO designed a daring ploy – the strategy was that America and its allies would provoke Russia's invasion and use it as a pretext to impose devastating sanctions on Russia.
The sanctions were supposed to cripple the Russian economy and create domestic pressure on President Putin, which would force him out of power. Putin’s exit would create a power vacuum, which would weaken Russia geopolitically and consolidate American hegemony. What would happen to Ukraine was irrelevant; it served as bait.
Evidence of NATO Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine
Anyone with enough intelligence knows by now that the so-called Russo-Ukrainian war is the US proxy war but we will call it the NATO-Russian war or the war in Ukraine. There is a growing mountain of undeniable evidence showing that the conflict in Ukraine is a proxy war between US-led NATO and Russia:
➡ On 5 May 2022, Ukrainska Pravda reported[+] that then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prevented the peace deal between Zelensky and Putin by claiming that “even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, we are not”. This is proof that NATO was all set to continue the war even without Ukraine.
➡ In May 2022, the US Democratic party herald The Washington Post[+] (owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon) confirmed it in an article titled “Russia Is Right: The US Is Waging a Proxy War in Ukraine”[+]
➡ In October 2022, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (and a member of the Bilderberg Group[+]) said[+] that Russia’s victory in the war in Ukraine would mean a defeat for NATO, adding that the alliance should not allow it. This is a clear statement exposing that the war in Ukraine is a NATO proxy war[+], whereby is NATO using Ukraine as a sacrificial lamb.
➡ on 24 January 2023, NATO chief Stoltenberg made an admission in an interview with PBS[»][+]: “I understand that he[Zelensky] insists on a clear timetable for joining NATO. At the same time, I believe that it is impossible to name the exact dates when we are in the midst of war.” So, there you have it, an open statement from the NATO chief himself. Is there a need for any more proof?
➡ in July 2024, NATO chief Stoltenberg made an admission in an interview with CBS News[»]: “President Xi and President Putin want NATO and the United States to fail in Ukraine.” How could NATO fail in Ukraine if it is NOT a party to the conflict there? Oops, I did it again! Again, Stoltenberg officially recognized NATO as a party to the conflict in Ukraine!
➡ on 24 January 2023, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in the Parliamentary Assembly[+] of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France: “We are fighting a war against Russia”[+], insisting that Europe must remain united behind the proxy war in Ukraine, because if it is divided, “then Russia and Putin wins”. So, there you have it, an open statement from a NATO state Foreign Minister that NATO is waging a proxy war against Russia! There was never a vote in Germany to declare war on Russia, which makes it illegal.
➡ on 30 January 2023, Chair of the Defence Select Committee and the Member of the British Parliament Tobias Ellwood said[»][+] “We are at war in Europe…” – yet another of many NATO states’ authorities admitting that they are at war.
➡ on 11 July 2024, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan he admitted[»] that the US or NATO is party to the conflict that they are at war with Putin: “Putin cannot divide us, he cannot defeat us in a war of attrition, he cannot weaken us.”
➡ As the Atlantic Council (NATO's think thank) revealed[+] NATO's sinister agenda on exploiting Ukraine: “the West is able to dramatically reduce Russia’s military potential without committing any of its own troops or sustaining casualties... While Ukraine’s Western partners provide Ukraine with vital battlefield intelligence, Ukraine returns the favor by offering equally valuable intelligence on the quality and effectiveness of Russian troops, military equipment, and tactics. The events of the past ten months have confirmed that pre-war perceptions of the Russian army were wildly inaccurate. Thanks to Ukraine, Western military planners now have a far more credible picture of Moscow’s true military capabilities.”
This is another clear indication that the “West” has no interest in peace as war serves its agendas and Ukraine is being used.
➡ NATO is fully funding the war in Ukraine – Ukraine has been the poorest country in Europe even before the conflict, thus it could not possibly fund a war against the biggest and one of the richest countries in the world. In the 2022 alone, NATO members spent more than $150 billion ($71 billion in military aid, plus humanitarian and financial aid)[+] in this war, which is much more than Russia spent – $46.1 billion[+] (out of $82-86 billion in overall military spending[+][+][+] – $36.9 billion was for police and security services – FSB, no financial and much smaller humanitarian war spending than NATO) – a clear indication that NATO is fully engaged in this war. In 2024, the EU approved a €50 billion aid package[+] for Ukraine and that is on top of all individual EU countries provide (e.g., Germany €8 billion[+] in military aid in 2024), as well as NATO planned $100 billion fund[+] to aid Ukraine and NATO countries created[+][+] a joint mission in Ukraine in order to expand the scope of support they can provide to a country that is not even a NATO member – what does that say about their involvement there! The illusion of democracy in NATO states is ever more evident because neither NATO states public nor parliaments and the US Congress4 voted or approved a declaration of war that would justify this gigantic spending. NATO cannot justify all its expenditures because Ukraine has nothing to show for as its efforts have yielded no results (no ROI5, no gains, only losses), whereas Russia, with much smaller expenses, achieved most of its objectives6 and even seized and annexed about one-fifth of Ukraine (over 100.000 square kilometers)[+] with at least $12,4 trillion[+][+][ꚛ] worth of Ukraine's energy, metal, and mineral deposits that before the conflict, in 2013, used to generate $43,3 billion a year[+][+], they collect over $2 billion[+] in tax revenues from four new regions every year, they kept Crimea, gained a land bridge to Crimea, unblocked the water routes to Crimea (which is extremely important for agriculture – the main branch of the Crimean economy), plus it prevented Ukraine from joining NATO, crushed NATO's economies and depleted NATO's military stockpiles[+][+][+][+][+][+], not to mention other geopolitical gains (multipolarity, BRICS expansion, the world is siding with Russia and standing up against the Western powers, de-dollarization, NATO's division7[+], de-colonization of Russian allies in Africa and Middle East such as Niger and Palestine; after the "EU-Israel-Saudi Arabia-India" transportation corridor ended with Israeli-Palestinian war, with its "North-South" corridor, Russia nullified British and American military bases, which controlled the main routes of world trade and thus held the world economy hostage, and so Russian economy got a huge boost as well increasing its geopolitical power, etc.).
➡ NATO is providing most of the weapons, communications services and intelligence information that Ukraine uses to fight Russia. No need for evidence[+] as it is common knowledge. Without NATO's weapons, Ukraine could have not fight Russia, therefore if NATO's weapons are used in this war, it is obvious that this is NATO's proxy war. For skeptics, we add that if supply of weapons on such a scale is not enough of evidence, that needs to be taken in a larger context of NATO also providing everything else, like training, funding, and mercenaries/volunteers, in addition to admissions from many NATO high officials.
➡ NATO is providing military training – by the end of 2023, over 100.000 Ukrainian soldiers were trained in NATO countries. More than 83.000 Ukrainian soldiers were trained by NATO between 2022-2023. Plus, further tens of thousands before 2022.
In November 2023, The Kyiv Independent[+] cited Ukrainian General Staff: Over 100.000 Ukrainian soldiers trained in partner countries. Between 2015 and 2024, Canada trained more than 40.000[+] members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the UK and Poland. In November 2023, Euronews reported[+] that the US has trained about 18.000 troops, and Ukrainska Pravda[+][+] and UK Government[+] reported that 30.000 Ukrainian service members have received training in the UK, which the UK government said is unprecedented since World War II. That’s in addition to the 22.000 Ukrainian forces UK trained before the 2022 invasion, which adds up to 52.000 Ukrainians being trained in the UK[+] plus a further 10.000 troops by mid-2024. They also reported that eight other NATO countries have been providing vital experience, training and insight into frontline combat. The EU had trained[+][+][+] 40.000 Ukrainian soldiers by February 2024 and plans to train another 20.000 by summer 2024. (The training has been conducted by the Combined Arms Training Command and held in 24 out of the bloc's 27 member states. Around 10.000 Ukrainian soldiers were trained by German and multinational units on German soil in 2023[+], and Germany plans[+] to train 10.000 Ukrainian military in 2024. France had trained 7.000 Ukrainians in 2023 – more than 1.600 in Poland, others at French bases[+][+][+]. The Polish armed forces have trained several thousand Ukrainian soldiers. By February 2024, Czech soldiers had trained about 3.500 Ukrainian colleagues on the territory of the Czech Republic almost 1.000 Ukrainian soldiers in Poland[+]. In July 2023, Belgian army trained 1.000 Ukrainian soldiers[+]. In February 2024, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said[+] “More than 1.700 Ukrainian military personnel are undergoing military training on Belgian territory”.)
➡ NATO runs the whole show – every major military move and battlefield maneuver by the AFU8 is dictated by NATO headquarters in Brussels after being jointly scripted by the Pentagon and British MoD with the help of CIA and MI6 intelligence. Together with an army of neo-Nazi mercenaries conscripted from all over the world, the AFU is battling Russia essentially as a military proxy force of the US and UK. Which is why lost “cheap” Ukrainian lives do not matter much as they are used as cannon fodder to deter Russia and so preserve their world domination. Both the United States and United Kingdom governments are notorious for being ruthless neocolonialists.
In February 2024, The Times run an article[+][+] titled “British military chief helped Zelensky destroy Russian war ships”. Admiral Tony Radakin supervised attacks on ships of the Black Sea Fleet and postponed his retirement as chief of the defence staff to continue offering advice to Ukraine. In other words UK is direct participants in this war
➡ American CIA and British MI6 have propped Ukraine’s intelligence services against Russia since 2014 – even pro-Ukrainian Western and Ukrainian mainstream media have reported[+][+][+][+][+][+] on it. CIA chief William Burns made[+] 10 secret visits to Ukraine in the two years of war, more than any other high-official from NATO states, which in itself is very telling of CIA involvement. But the US officials keep lying, the US is not party to the conflict.
“We lied, we cheated, we stole”[»] – Mike Pompeo, former CIA Director and US Secretary of State
➡ Since 2014, NATO has helped[+] to reform Ukraine’s armed forces and defence institutions, including with equipment and financial support. Since 2016, NATO’s support has been organized through a Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP), which includes a wide range of capacity-building programmes and trust funds, focused on key areas like cyber warfare, logistics, and countering hybrid warfare. Since February 2022, NATO has been providing unprecedented levels of support to Ukraine – no one has ever received so much aid and support from NATO for some reason (that reason being this is NATO's proxy war against Russia).
➡ Pentagon's think tank proposed an evil 2019 master plan to defeat Russia, including providing lethal aid to Ukraine – in April 2019, the RAND Corporation (a highly influential elite national security think tank funded directly by the Pentagon) published the “Extending Russia” report[+] proposing a range of escalatory and malicious measures to “extend Russia”[+] (stress Russia’s military, economy, and the regime’s political standing at home and abroad, prompt Russia to compete in domains or regions where the US has a competitive advantage, causing Russia to overextend itself and unbalance it; extend Russia’s costs, drain Russian resources), to exploit Russia's economic, political, and military vulnerabilities as well as anxieties (about the possibility of Western-inspired regime change and a NATO’s military attack), so as to defeat Russia without the explicit use of the US armed forces but implicit. Measures: Provide Lethal Aid to Ukraine, Increase Support to the Syrian Rebels, Promote Regime Change in Belarus, Exploit Tensions in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan), Reduce Russian Influence in Central Asia, etc. Why would the US seek in 2019 to harm, weaken, or defeat Russia, other than for evil reasons?! In order to maintain US global supremacy. Imagine if Russians issued such a report, what an outcry that would cause in the West condemning Russians as evil! States should cooperate and help each other grow rather than conspire to destroy each other! This 2019 report is evidence that Pentagon or NATO has waged a economic, political, and informational war against Russia already before Russia launched its SMO, as well as made every effort to weaken Russian military. So-called experts reckoned that Russia’s greatest vulnerability, in any competition with the United States, is its economy, which we all know by now turned out to be totally incorrect, as the US and its allies economies suffered much more than Russia's since then and Russia's economy grew, to everyone’s surprise. Putin outsmarted them big time, just as he did when he snapped Crimea before NATO did it and when by new 2015 law, he banned all Western-funded NGOs and “activists” who aimed to orchestrate a regime change by undemocratic means. The benefits and risks analysis of this report turned out so that none of the benefits and all risks manifested while all these measures extended the US more than Russia and came at a significant cost to US prestige and credibility. Some of the US economic, geopolitical, informational, and military measures[+] to “extend” or weaken Russia as posited by its Army's think tank are: hinder petroleum exports, reduce natural gas exports and hinder pipeline expansions, impose sanctions, enhance Russian brain drain; provide lethal aid to Ukraine (to increase the costs to Russia, in both blood and treasure) and support NATO membership for Ukraine (only to provoke Russia to redouble its efforts and costs to forestall it), exhaust Russian military and economy by threatening its allies and neighbors – increase support to the Syrian rebels, promote regime change in Belarus, exploit tensions in the south Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), reduce Russian influence in central Asia, challenge Russian presence in Moldova; employ information warfare – influence operations, ruin Russian regime legitimacy, interfere in domestic environment (information campaign to influence Russian domestic audiences through media to reduce public confidence in Russian officials and diminish domestic support for the Russian regime – expose the corruption, the murders and repression of domestic regime critics, as well as the economic costs imposed on the Russian people by Putin’s confrontational approach to the West; allegations of vote rigging and corruption among politicians could reduce voter support or turnout), encourage protests, strikes, and electoral boycotts to destabilize the regime and distract and cripple it from interfering in the US affairs (regime changes, hegemonic world domination) abroad, undermine Russia’s standing internationally, introduce punitive measures such as exclude Russia from international forums and events such as the G-20, sporting events, Eurovision, etc. and boycott or make it lose the right to host prestigious international events, then coerce Russia to comply to restore its rights and status; increase US and NATO naval and land forces posture and presence in Europe, increase NATO exercises in Europe, and withdraw from the INF Treaty9. If anyone thinks that the US went to such lengths and enormous costs since 2019 and before just to help Ukraine retake Crimea, then think again. It didn't do anything of the sorts to help Serbia retake Kosovo, quite the opposite.
➡ NATO troops on the ground – evidence of NATO officials & media admitting it:
🔵 on 17 November 2024, the outgoing US president Biden allowed[+] long-range missile strikes into Russia, after which immediately also US vassal state the UK also did the same, which proves that US and UK military personnel operate in Ukraine because only they can operate those US missiles as Ukrainian military has no training or knowledge in operating long-range missiles. This was already confirmed[+][+] by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in regards to British and French military personnel operating their missiles in Ukraine (not in Russia). The Russian president Putin explained[»][»] that if Ukraine is empowered to strike deep into Russia with western weapons, it means direct participation of NATO and Russia will react appropriately! Russian foreign minister Lavrov, who is acknowledged even by Western pundits[»] as one of the best diplomats, said[+] that “Those who allowed Vladimir Zelensky to use these missiles also allowed it to themselves” (because they themselves use it to strike Russia from Ukraine).
🔵 on 10 May 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk admitted[»][+] that NATO soldiers are present in Ukraine
🔵 on 11 April 2024, first hundred soldiers of the 3rd infantry regiment of the French Foreign Legion arrived in Slavyansk, according to Russian bloggers[+] and then on 15 April, the Russian Armed Forces allegedly hit them with a missile attack[+][+][+][+] – in early May 2024, news channels[+][+] confirmed it by citing[+] Stephen Bryen, an ex-aide to the deputy chief of the Pentagon, that France sent its first combat troops officially to Ukraine battlefront in Slavyansk, a first tranche of around 1.500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine. The Foreign Legion is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they may get a French citizenship (or before if they get wounded). Before the war, a number of Ukrainians were in the French Foreign Legion, so already in 2022, French legionnaires from Ukraine were allowed to leave the Legion and return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian armed forces. In mid-January, Russian troops destroyed a temporary deployment area for foreign mercenaries in Kharkov, most of whom were French citizens, eliminating more than 60 of them[+]. Also, in May 2024, dead and captured soldiers with French chevrons were recorded[»][ꚛ][»] by Russian advancing forces. Ukrainians make songs[»] about French “brothers” fighting with them, which proves there must be a lot of them there. Also, Wagner fighters also flaunted trophy chevrons/patches[»][»] of foreign mercenaries from the battle for Bakhmut. France denied[+][+] having sent troops to Ukraine but it contradicts what Macron stated[+][+] several times about sending troops to Ukraine: if Russia breaks through Ukrainian front lines (which Russia did[+]) or if the government in Kyiv made such a request (which Kyiv obviously did as it has been asking for Western reinforcements from the start and is suffering huge shortage of manpower). Whether this is true or just a French psyop to ‘test the water’ on how far they could provoke Russia, this was a sneaky or cowardly way for Macron to position himself as a tough leader of Europe, whereby he avoided French resistance since the legionnaires are not French citizens yet. If it is not true that French troops were deployed in Slavyansk, that would mean that Macron is nothing but a barking dog, a wannabe Napoleon, a wannabe tough leader of Europe. For weeks prior to that, Macron had been talking loud and often about sending troops to Ukraine but if it proves that there is no substance to his talk, what does that say about him?
His main motivation to send troops is to revenge for the humiliation of French troops, almost all from the Legion, getting kicked out of Sahelian Francophone Africa and replaced by Russians, which ended French neo-colonization and exploitation[»] of local natural resources harming France’s overseas mining and business interests and striking a huge blow to French economy and status (the biggest blow was in Niger in 2023, which was an important cut-price supplier of uranium to France fueling nuclear power plants – 56 reactors; France derives[+] about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy and was the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation due to exploiting Niger's uranium).
🔵 Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said[+] in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse in early April 2024 that “the reality is that every NATO member state already has military personnel in Ukraine”.
🔵 Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski said[»][»] in March 2024: “The troops of NATO countries are already in Ukraine.” If anyone knows, he knows.
🔵 In February 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz let it slip[+][+] that British and French military personnel have been sent to Ukraine as part of highly classified missions to aid Ukrainian forces in operating their missiles against Russian targets, which was also confirmed by a leaked call between German commanders[»].
🔵 In February 2024, Russia’s RT television channel obtained[+][»] an audio recording in which high-ranking German Bundeswehr officers were discussing long-range missile strikes on Russia’s territory, including on the Crimean Bridge[»], which also proved that Germany is a direct participant in this war and exposed the deceptive rhetoric about Germany’s non-involvement in the conflict. Imagine if an audio leaked with Russian generals plotting to strike German territory at that time! Would that be acceptable? But somehow, in a showcase of double standards, the Western public was not outraged by it.
🔵 In February 2024, The Times reported[+][+] that British military chief Admiral Tony Radakin supervised attacks on Russian war ships of the Black Sea Fleet, which also proves that the UK is direct participants in this war.
🔵 In February 2024, The Financial Times and many other Western outlets reported[+] that “Everyone knows there are Western special forces in Ukraine”.
🔵 The Washington Post also reported[+] in February 2024 that foreign troops are already in Ukraine and that at least 50 American citizens – the majority former U.S. military veterans – have been killed in Ukraine.
🔵 One of many evidence of the US being involved directly in Ukraine war is the US using the F-35s to locate and identify surface to air missile sites of Russian units in Ukraine and this information was shared with NATO countries[»] – Lockheed Martin revealed that information to Singapore to sell more F35s in early March 2024 but Singapore’s Defense Minister, Ng Eng Hen forgot that it’s confidential and used it as a justification to buy more F35s. It may be that like most salesmen, Lockheed Martin sales department also lied just to sell them more F-35s. The US is not hiding that it’s collecting intel through its satellites and unmanned air assets, and sharing it with the Ukrainian military, and in 2023, Russians published a video of a drone harassed by Russian fighters over the Black Sea but using actual pilots, as required to fly F-35 fighter jets, qualifies as "active fighters" or "active combat personnel” – this exposed the US being involved directly in Ukraine war, something the US government has been denying all the time.
All these blunders about NATO "leaked" military personnel involved in Ukraine in just one week seemed like a concerted effort to push Russia into a NATO territory strike of some kind. UK foreign secretary, former PM, David Cameron said[»] that “As long as we're not in the situation where a NATO soldier is killing a Russian soldier we are not causing escalation” – by his definition this is escalation then. It is them who are escalating, not Russians.
🔵 Pentagon keeps saying there are no US troops in Ukraine but it authorized “US troops serving in Ukraine to earn hazard pay”[+][+][+]. American troops are allegedly only working out of the embassy helping Ukrainian troops with intelligence operations, or so they want us to believe. The $61 billion aid package for Ukraine approved in April 2024 included $11,3 billion[+] (not million) for US military operation there – instead of giving it to Ukrainian military, they gave it to US military operation there but what for? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out and how much is US military involved there.
🔵 Leaked Pentagon papers in April 2023 indicated[+] Britain has three times more special ops soldiers[+][+][+] in Ukraine than any other NATO ally. These are all NATO boots on the ground, including those masquerading as “volunteers” or “contractors”.
🔵 In February 2023, Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) claimed[+] that Swedish forces are largely tied up in the war in Ukraine.
🔵 In February 2023, Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner explained[»][+] how NATO troops indirectly fight in Ukraine without NATO officially being a belligerent in the war. "I take off my uniform, sign a contract, and go to Ukraine. I am no longer a serviceman of the Austrian Armed Forces, but a contractor."
🔵 On 13 December 2022, Robert Magowan, a British lieutenant general and former commander of the Royal Marines, revealed[+][+] that the Royal Marines were involved several times in "covert operations" in Ukraine, in "extremely sensitive context", involving "a high level of political and military risk".
🔵 In April 2023, leaked Pentagon military files[+][+] disclosed that NATO boots are on the ground in the Ukraine war – according to those files, 97 official special forces personnel from NATO countries (mostly from the UK but also Latvia, France, and the US) were active in Ukraine during February and March 2023. This figure doesn't seem much but these numbers show two months and only “special” forces and not the other NATO forces including the US Army 101st Airborne[+], generals, commanders, officers, soldiers, and trainers that are much larger in number but kept secret to cover up NATO's illegal involvement in this war. No matter, how big or small the number is, the presence of any number of NATO official forces indicates that NATO is waging an illegal war in Ukraine. Also, the fact that the Pentagon has military files with detailed facts on all armed forces in the Ukraine war clearly discloses the fact that the US is deeply involved in this war. By contrast, currently, there are major wars[+] in Myanmar and Ethiopia but the Pentagon and the whole of NATO show no involvement.
🔵 In March 2022, Yahoo News[+] reported that CIA paramilitaries have been active in Ukraine, training forces to “kill Russians”[+], since immediately after the 2014 US-backed coup[+] that overthrew Kyiv’s democratically elected government and installed a pro-Western regime.
🔵 In June 2022, the New York Times reported that CIA and special operations forces from NATO members[+] Britain, France, Canada, and Lithuania have been on the ground in Ukraine, training and advising Ukrainian forces and overseeing the war against Russia.
🔵 In December 2022, US military veteran and journalist Jack Murphy[+] reported that today, the CIA and a European NATO ally are carrying out sabotage attacks inside Russian territory[+]. He is a former US special operations officer[+] who has extensive contacts inside the military and intelligence services.
One way or another, with officers and special forces from many others NATO countries posing as “volunteers” or “trainers”, they are on Ukrainian ground, which qualifies as NATO boots on the ground, which is illegal because NATO has no valid reason to be a party to the conflict and hasn't obtained a co-belligerency declaration from its people's representatives.
According to then-Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu[+] and the deputy head of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy[+], several NATO member states have boots on the ground in Ukraine operating certain weapons systems – air defense systems, tactical ballistic missiles, multiple launch rocket systems, and even tanks[+]. Shoigu cited radio intercepts featuring English and Polish speakers. According to Shoigu, Western officers are also playing an active role in preparing Ukrainian military operations as well as training troops. NATO soldiers are fighting against the Russian Army in the Ukraine conflict disguised as mercenaries or “volunteers”. According to the Russian MOD’s estimates[+] in Feb. 2024, more than 5.900 foreign mercenaries have died in Ukraine in the first two years of SMO10[+]. Allegedly there have been up to 20.000[»]11 Polish professional or brainwashed12 soldiers fighting in Ukraine masquerading as contractors, mercenaries, or volunteers.
According to the US government[+] and CNN[+], in March 2022, the US had about 100.000 US military personnel either on rotational or permanent orders stationed in Europe but they want us to believe that there is none in Ukraine, where the US is most invested. In July 2023, an additional 3.000 US reserves were deployed in Europe, again allegedly none in Ukraine. Why were 100.000 soldiers not enough?! What are 103.000 US soldiers doing in Europe?! Just sitting around? What is their purpose? How many US “trainers”[+] are needed to train just a few thousand Ukrainian soldiers at each particular time? What do they do that European military could not do by themselves? Most likely they are not engaged in close combat because the US doesn't want to sacrifice its own soldiers but still, they are there on the ground doing everything else that is part of a hybrid war. There should be total transparency from the Biden administration to the American people when they are gambling war with a nuclear adversary by having troops and special forces operating in Ukraine.
➡ NATO or US military contractors operate[+][+] in Ukraine helping Kyiv maintain complex Western-provided weapons systems such as F-16 fighter jets and Patriot air defense systems, which means that NATO military is de facto engaged in a war with Russia, regardless of how anyone whitewashes it
➡ in August 2023, in an interview with The Washington Post[+], Polish President Andrzej Duda said that America and Poland must stop Russian imperialism, which is admitting that they are in a proxy war against Russia: "right now, Russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply, because American soldiers are not dying. But if we don’t put a halt to Russian aggression now, there will be a very high price to be paid." In other words, they (“we”) are at a proxy war with Russia. Of course, he never gave any evidence whatsoever to substantiate his claims about alleged “Russian imperialism” especially given that Russia never showed any signs of imperialism or expansionism, as opposed to imperialist Western powers that are doing it since ages, including NATO military expansionism[»][ꚛ]. We, on the other hand, gave plenty of evidence against such claims, so make sure to read them[*].
➡ in August 2023, US Senator Mitt Romney proclaimed[»]: “We’re losing no lives in Ukraine and… we are diminishing devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money!” – a US Senator openly admits that they (“we”) are at a proxy war with Russia. Like the rest of the Western proxy war’s architects, the American politician disregards the fact that Ukrainians are being killed to serve the US interests[+] as if their lives have no value beyond destroying Russia. US goal[»]: “The single most important thing we can do to strengthen America relative to China is to see Russia defeated in Ukraine. A weakened Russia deters the CCP's territorial ambition (towards Taiwan) and halts Putin's vision of re-establishing the old Soviet Union (where is proof for that? Is Putin suddenly a communist? What is wrong with that vision anyway – why not reunite Eastern Slavs?).” Ladies and gentlemen, the US Senator clarified what this proxy war is all about – it has nothing to do with defending Ukraine or democracy but to weaken China's ally Russia for the US's upcoming war against China!
➡ in October 2023, Netherlands Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren virtually admitted[»][»][+] that NATO is fighting a proxy war against Russia, as she said that “supporting Ukraine is a very cheap way to make sure that Russia with this regime is not a threat to the NATO alliance.”
➡ In a joint event[+] at the Munich Security Conference[»] on 18 February 2023, the warmongering foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world, “Neutrality is not an option”[»] in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the Global Majority[+] countries that are neutral[+][+] and affirming that they are seeking allies in their war against Russia.
➡ In a speech in Poland in March 2022, US President Joe Biden made it clear that Washington’s goal is to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin[+]. How? By fighting against Russia in Ukraine.
➡ In April 2022, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admitted that the Pentagon seeks to “weaken” Russia[+][+]. This “seeking” is, of course, not just rhetorical but military – the Pentagon is the headquarters of NATO and the HQ of the US Department of Defense including all three military services – Army, Navy, and Air Force. When they say “weaken”, they mean “disintegrate” Russian Federation or “change regime”. Why would the US want to weaken Russia or any other nation and how is that acceptable? Why Americans support a regime that seeks to weaken other nations? Shouldn't we all help each other grow and prosper? No, because Americans want the world domination at the cost of others’ suffering.
➡ In March 2022, former US State Department official Eliot Cohen wrote in Washington’s establishment magazine The Atlantic[+] that NATO is fighting a “proxy war with Russia” in Ukraine, and he called to kill as many Russian soldiers as possible, “the more and faster the better”[+].
➡ Conservapedia calls it straight out the “NATO war in Ukraine”[+] that started by the US in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in collaboration with neo-Nazi traitors to the Ukrainian nation.
➡ "Any attack by the Wagner Group will be seen as an attack by the Russian government,"[+] US Ambassador to the UN said (answering a question about concerns over the potential actions by Russian mercenaries against Poland). Well, then, according to that logic, any attack by American mercenaries should be seen as an attack by the American government, or any attack by mercenaries from NATO states (in Ukraine's International Legion), should be seen as an attack by NATO.
➡ In November 2023, retired US Army Brigadier General Kevin Ryan told[+] to British Daily Mail: “The West has not fully awakened to the reality that we are at war with Russia.” Well could it be because the Western leaders are deceiving the public about their role in it? Anyhow, this is another confirmation of NATO's proxy war.
➡ “Since NATO declared us the main threat, in fact an enemy, we have regarded all nuclear weapons of the member countries of the alliance (the United States, Britain and France) as a single nuclear arsenal aimed against the Russian Federation. In our doctrinal documents, we proceed from this very premise. You know that the US also keeps its nuclear weapons in five European countries and trains the citizens of these countries to use tactical nuclear weapons. Under all circumstances (as I have already said), we consider all nuclear weapons of this NATO troika to be a single nuclear arsenal and accordingly make our plans to reliably ensure the security of the Russian Federation. The configuration of this arsenal may change, but the essence does not. I assure you that this is fully taken into account in our planning." – excerpt from the statement and answers[+] by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to media questions during a joint news conference following his talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad Mamadou Tangara, Moscow, 30 January 2024.
There is plenty more evidence but no need to list them as the aforementioned suffice. The only one more clear indication of NATO's proxy war in Ukraine that we wish to pinpoint is NATO's economic and information warfare, which are as important, if not more, as military warfare. Besides all the fierce sanctions, NATO mainstream media is fiercely engaged in attacking Russia for which there’s no need for evidence as it is explicit with constant Russophobic content, smear campaigns against Russia, character assassinations of Putin and other high-profile Russians…
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)[+] is an intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states – 30 European and two North American, which was established in the aftermath of World War II to prevent World War III. However, what NATO has been doing in recent years (and the US in decades) is quite the opposite – NATO's expansionism[ꚛ][ꚛ], aggression with attempts to change regimes (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria…) and provocations (Russia, China, Middle East) is leading to the WW III.
Ukraine is a de facto member of the NATO alliance. This is confirmed by various sources, such as President Zelensky[+] and Ukraine defense minister Oleksii Reznikov[+], with no NATO authorities ever denying this claim, which means that de facto NATO is at war with Russia and that NATO forces have been conducting terrorist attacks on Russian soil.
Russians are not concerned about the difference between de facto and de jure status because their main concern is Ukraine's militarization by NATO, which is why they started the SMO[+] to demilitarize Ukraine so as to remove the threat it presents to Russia's security and regional stability.
Ukraine being a de facto member of NATO also justifies Russian SMO because it is unacceptable for Russia to have another anti-Russian NATO military on its borders, just as it was unacceptable for Americans to have Russian missiles in Cuba, which sparked the Cuban missile crisis in 1962[+]. With NATO-backed military bases in Ukraine ever since 2014, when NATO started to provide weapons and training to Ukraine, it is a de facto member of the NATO alliance.
Ever since Putin came to power and Americans could not buy him (to exploit Russian natural resources) like with his predecessor Boris Yeltsin (who was a US-controlled player[+], the US facilitated Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996[+][+][+]), the US has had many attempts at orchestrating a regime change in Russia through NGOs and other entities funding and backing US puppets such as traitor Navalny[+][+][»][»][+][»] but Russian regime has seen through it and banned all those foreign-funded organizations, spies-posing-as-journalists, and US-backed traitors meddling in Russian politics (which then the US condemned and propagated as Putin being a dictator cracking down on opposition).
When nothing worked to overthrow the uncorrupt President Putin, they came up with a new plan: to use Ukraine to weaken Russia so much that the Russian people would rise against Putin and change the regime that way. Not gonna happen.
The backup plan was also rolling, with popularizing American puppet Navalny[+][+][»][»][+][»][ꚛ][+][+][»] through Hollywood-style propaganda[+] so that the Russian public may warm up to him and vote for him in the next elections. Not gonna happen but they try[»]. Like many other CIA assets, including Mikheil Saakashvili13, he ended up in jail without the US protection, and he died[+] there due to blood clots, believed to be caused[+] by the US Pfizer vaccine (known in the US as the "clot shot" that form because of it) which he took rather than the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
Some might question why would NATO be fighting a war against Russia and why secretly. NATO is supposed to be “a defensive alliance, whose purpose is to protect its member states”!!! Ukraine is not a NATO member (for a good reason), which makes NATO involvement in Ukraine illegal, unlawful, and criminal. Any foreign forces, regardless of whether they engage under the NATO flag or any other one, is illegal, unlawful, and criminal if those nations have no proof that they are acting in self-defense. Since they have no such evidence, this is why they are secretive about it. However, most of us are not stupid. We know that NATO is not just providing aid to Ukraine. So, all of those who condemn Russia for waging an illegal war in Ukraine need to be just and also condemn NATO for doing the same. Especially now that there is actual legal proof[+] of NATO's special forces engaged in the Ukraine war.
Although, as we already mentioned[*], Russia has indeed provided a legal basis for its special military operation while NATO has no legal basis at all. Russia's legal justification is in line with Article 51 (Chapter VII)[+] of the UN Charter, Russia’s Federation Council, and the Federal Assembly, as well as the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. As with anything else in a court of (international) law, this legal justification is debatable, nevertheless valid. For one, UN Charter Article 51 (Ch. VII) states:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security…”
As we all know, millions of Russians living in the east and south of Ukraine were under armed attack by the Ukrainian regime for 8 years before Russia began its SMO[+] in 2022 (with the permission of local authorities of Ukrainian regions that were under armed attack by the Ukrainian regime). If NATO had the legal right to bomb the Yugoslavian capital and other towns in 1999[+] based on “humanitarian intervention”, then by the same token, Russia had the right to bombard Kyiv and other towns to stop the humanitarian crisis in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian SMO solved the humanitarian crisis in Donbas14[+] and the reason why it escalated into a war is only that the Ukrainian army fought back with the support of NATO, something the Yugoslav army didn't do because they had no military backing from Russia (because it would be illegal). In other words, Russia obeyed the law in that conflict, while NATO didn’t obey the law in this conflict.
Russian military intervention in Ukraine is in self-defense also against the threats posed by NATO's expansion to the Russian borders with hostile military bases building up across Russian borders with lethal missiles capable of destroying many Russian cities in a matter of minutes. Similar to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962[+] when Americans objected to the very same thing they are now doing to Russia – how Russians putting missiles in Cuba (only because the US was the first to put missiles on the border of the Soviet Union in Turkey and also Italy) is any different than Americans putting missiles in Ukraine and other countries surrounding Russia? The Cuban missile crisis was resolved by the US promising to remove its missiles and rockets threatening the Soviet Union in Europe but this promise to Russian leader Khrushchev was violated by the US with placing its missiles and rockets all over Europe and so posing a threat to Russia. America’s withdrawal[+] from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019 by the Trump administration was yet another of many hostile American policies that Russia was not going to overlook. Russia’s proposal[+] for ending the current crisis stipulates that the United States “not deploy land-based intermediate- and short-range missiles in areas allowing them to reach Russian territory.”
The proliferation of NATO's ballistic missiles in the vicinity of the borders of Russia has justified Russian concerns about their national security, especially in the view that lately NATO has been bombarding many countries (Serbia, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia…) that never attacked or posed threat to NATO states. NATO members feel entitled to solve even economic disputes with bombarding other countries.
NATO member states, on the other hand, were under no armed attack, nor Russia has ever threatened any of the NATO states, thus any NATO involvement is illegal!
Without the formal declaration of war and emphasizing its complete non-involvement, since 2014, NATO has funded[+][+][+], trained, and equipped the Ukrainian military, including the neo-Nazi Azov battalion[+] and Right Sector paramilitary which terrorized, harassed, and killed the natives of Donbas[+] – Russian ethnic minorities (around eight million people).
Ukrainians condemned Russia for equipping and protecting their oppressed compatriots in Donbas but somehow approve of NATO doing the very same to the rest of the country – double standards, just like corruption, have no boundaries in Ukraine. Whatever they accuse of Russia, the US, UK, and EU did much more. Ukrainian hypocrisy may be one of the main reasons for the conflict with Russians who have every right to protect their compatriots while NATO states have no legal right to meddle in Russo-Ukrainian affairs.
The fact that eight million Russians lived in Ukraine gave right to Russia to interfere in the Ukrainian civil war while NATO interference has been merely profit-driven all along. We will explain all about American war profiteers and exploiters of Ukrainian natural resources in a chapter on the US role in this war. The point here is, no NATO residents were attacked or threatened for NATO to get involved in Ukraine. The near hysterical calls to support Ukraine as an alleged bulwark of liberty and democracy by the bloodthirsty warmongers in Washington and Brussels are a response to the palpable greed and decline of the West15, as well as hypocrisy in the light that the US is notorious for orchestrating coups for undemocratic regime changes[+] across the globe, including in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014.
As a pawn in the US's global chess game, Ukraine is being sacrificed by NATO like many other pawn states along with other collapsing EU countries who are nothing but chess figures on this geopolitical chessboard. With Washington calling all the shots in NATO, Joe Biden might be the “king” of the defeated set in this “game” but he is not the one in charge as he, too, is just a figure being played.
President Biden owes it to his presidential campaign backers[+] to play their betting game but the “player” is the clandestine financial high priest running the system of the military-industrial complex (immense military establishment and a large arms industry) that has distorted every US political institution and perpetrated the illusion of democracy. On the surface level, countries are ruled by either royals, politicians, moguls, religious leaders, puppet masters, or military commanders. The latter is the case with the US. Ukraine is ruled by a puppet master – the US. Although we are all just puppets of a handful of high priests that control the world through psychology or, to be more exact, the science of imagery (we don't expect the common people to believe or understand that). However absurd this may sound to a narrow mind controlled by the clandestine high priests, in reality, this NATO-Russian war and the old East-West dichotomy[+] are in fact the ancient conflict of images.
Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To properly grasp everything, we[*] recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the proper order, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. This article is part of the “Reality Checks” segment debunking NATO & Kyiv propaganda. When you are ready, proceed to the next article in this series: Military Power
In spring 2021, Russian court found Twitter guilty on 3 counts of violating regulations on restricting unlawful content (child pornography) resulting in throttling Twitter on Mobile Devices, as well as restricting access to it in Feb 2022 to curtail disinformation
both interviews were viewed from several different platforms so we gave the views count from most popular platforms of both journalists
Zelensky gave many interviews by then and none of them had as many views as that interview with Putin
Steven Seagal[+] is a retired Hollywood actor, who also became a Russian citizen in 2016 after Putin personally gave him his passport. The actor backed the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and is also in support of Russia's SMO in Ukraine.
the US Congress consists of 2 legislative bodies, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Representatives and Senators are elected by the public. Passing legislation requires the agreement of both the House and Senate. Both have chambers in the US Capitol
ROI = return on investment
Russian SMO objectives: prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, liberate ethnic Russians and facilitate them to freely speak Russian language (which Kyiv regime banned from 30 spheres of life), keep Crimea (as well as secure water and electricity supply for it along with a land-bridge to it), demilitarize not just Ukraine but also NATO (depleted its stockpiles[+][+][+][+][+][+]), denazify Ukraine.
NATO's division — Hungary and Slovakia refuse NATO's orders to supply Ukraine with weapons and funds, the US attacked Germany's infrastructure (Nord Stream), the US shoots down Turkish drones over Syria...
AFU = Armed Forces of Ukraine
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty[+] — an arms control treaty between the US and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation) signed in 1987, banning all of the nuclear, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles
SMO = Special Military Operation
20.000[»] Polish mercenaries — 10.000[+] by the end of 2022. In first 10 months of a special military operation in Ukraine about 1.200 Polish mercenaries were killed[+]. Several thousand were among the wounded. Such data was published on November 28 by the telegram channel Ukraina.ru with reference to the Polish media. According to former adviser to the former US Department of Defense, retired colonel Douglas McGregor about 2,5 thousand of Polish mercenaries were killed[+] in Ukraine in the first 12 months of SMO
brainwashed because no Pole, with a heart in the right place, would fight risking his life, for a nation that glorifies murderers (Banderites) of 100.000 of Polish civilians in the Volhynia Massacre in WWII.
Mikheil Saakashvili[+] — US-puppet whose US-backed coup in Georgia in 2003 did succeed and he become a President but was later forced to flee the country and ended up in jail in 2021 while attempting another coup as he called on his followers to march on the capital upon his return. He also got, lost, and regained Ukrainian citizenship and was a governor of Odesa region 2015–2016 for some strange reason
Donbas[+] is a coal mining region that was part of eastern Ukraine from 1922-2022 (now part of Russia) consisting of two Republics - Donetsk and Luhansk - where most residents have been Russians for centuries. In 2022, after Bolsheviks defeated the Ukrainian nationalists, Lenin gave that part of former Russian Empire with mostly ethnic Russian residents to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under condition that it remains part of the Soviet Union and under Moscow governance (Kyiv administration) but in 1991, Ukraine violated that agreement by breaking off from the Soviet Union and from Moscow, and since 2014, Ukrainians had been demolishing all Lenin's monuments, therefore they have no rights to claim the territories he conditionally granted them. Since Ukrainians hate Lenin and Stalin so much that they demonize them, then in the Russian view[+], it is only fair to give back all the land[ꚛ] that Lenin and Stalin allocated to Soviet Ukraine, without even asking the locals’ permission (the majority were Russians in Donbas).