After Putin’s 2007 address to the ‘Munich Security Conference’, a NATO ‘get together’, where the Russian president requested urgent debate on a ‘European Security Architecture’, given the fact that NATO kept expanding in an Easterly direction, despite solemn promises not to do such a thing to Gorbatchev, NATO struck back by offering Ukraine and Georgia future NATO membership in 2008. Various advisers to the ‘Bush administration’, and western scholars, had been vehemently opposed to such a move, but the neocons were on top of the world, riding their ‘War on Terror’-scam without remorse, already returning to work with terrorists to shape the world to what they wanted it to be like, and they felt there was nothing Russia, a ‘Gasstation with Nukes’, could do anyway.
At that moment in time, Putin understood that NATO had ‘Plans’, which included the future of Russia. And those ‘Plans’ left no place for a sovereign Russia as an equal partner. Emboldened by NATO’s invitation to join the alliance, the CIA/NED ‘puppet’ Saakashvilli started a war over regions which rejected Georgian rule that very same year, leading to a clear defeat of his army. The man would surface again in Ukraine after Victoria Nuland’s coup of 2014, acting as governor of Odessa, while his own country put him on the ‘most wanted’ list. If NATO felt it would be a piece of cake to create enthusiasm for their plans in Ukraine, that failed as well. Yanukovitch was elected as president in 2010, after being railroaded by the courts in the first real ‘color revolution’, the ‘Orange Revolution’ of 2004, and he did try to walk a tightrope pleasing the EU/NATO apparatchik, and the people in Ukraine doing their bidding, as well as the Russians, who had their own active supporters in the industrialized East and South of the country, where he had is electoral power base.
After Yanukovitch decided to accept the Russian offer for economic cooperation, over the meagre EU offer, the Americans, with support from certain European operatives, launched their ‘Maidan’ coup attempt, using ‘scientific’ methods to enhance the revolutionary spirit among far right parties, and soccer hooligans, many with open sympathies for the legacy of Adolf Hitler. They struck the jackpot right after France, Germany and Poland, in talks with the elected president and the opposition, had decided on early elections, through sending some snipers into a building occupied by the ‘demonstrators’, shooting both demonstrators and policemen alike, setting Kiev on fire. The next day, with Yanukovitch visiting his electorate in the Donbas region, a junta selected by Victoria Nuland announced that they were in power, and Nuland’s Yatsenyuk was in charge of wiping the political scene clean, removing any pro Russian politician from the roster, before new elections would be held to confirm Ukraine would be a pro NATO asset from that moment on. Upon which Yanukovitch fled to Russia, after receiving word that his motorcade, which had followed him to where he had flown, had been ambushed.
Immediately, the semi independent Rada of the Crimea peninsula, given independence separate from Ukraine, as an autonomous entity in 1991, as the USSR dissolved, decided to return to Moscow’s umbrella. Protected by Russian troops, as the army of Ukraine itself split in two, one supporting NATO’s Kiev, and one supporting the pro Russian ‘rebels’ in the East and South, Crimea held a referendum, which clearly came back in favor of leaving the union with Ukraine, and merging into the Russian Federation. No real surprise, as polls conducted by the Americans ahead of their coup attempt already showed wide support for Russia, which was the home of the Russian Black Sea fleet, and several military bases even when Crimea was working with the Ukrainian government.
No such special status for the Donbas, which was why Putin decided against annexing the Donbas as well at that stage. But after elections in the NATO held part of Ukraine, where the people had a choice between a Choco Prince, and a Gas Queen, both vehemently anti Russia, won by Porochenko, the corrupt Choco Prince, things heated up. Porochenko came out dressed in military fatigues, and declared civil war on the Donbas region, actively supported by NATO, while the rebels received passive support from Moscow. Both claimed to represent the sovereign nation of Ukraine, or rather what was left of it after Nuland’s bold action. To everyone’s astonishment, Porochenko’s army, with its NATO advisers, lost the civil war, and barely saved a few thousand fighters encircled at Debaltseve by signing the ‘Minsk Treaty’.
This treaty, in its second draft, proposed to leave Ukraine ‘whole’, except for Crimea, which never belonged to it anyway, creating a federalized state, with plenty of autonomy for the much richer, industrialized East and South. France and Germany served as guarantors, but both Merkel and Hollande recently said it was a ruse, merely meant to buy NATO time to arm Ukraine to the hilt for a re-run of the civil war. Confirmed by Porochenko, as well as Zelensky, who relieved Porochenko on a platform which said that he would honor the ‘Minsk Treaty’, and deliver the peace. He didn’t, and never intended to. But he had to wait for Biden to take the White House before he got a chance to prove that the Russians were weak, disorganized, badly trained, with insufficient equipment, and no match for his proud, NATO trained and equipped military.
We know what happened, how badly Zelensky and NATO miscalculated, and you can find plenty on that subject on this part of my blog, but absolutely nothing went according to ‘Plan’ for NATO, and this is going to be a real disaster for the alliance, but much more so for the people in Ukraine under NATO rule. I stated before, that I’m convinced that Putin did ‘speak softly’, invariably urging his ‘partners’ in the West to talk, but that he knew they were lying bitches, looking for a chance to regime change his country, using Ukraine as bait. And he carried a ‘Big Stick’. Now, what are we going to do…..?