Truth Versus Ukraine War Propaganda

Exposing U.S. Government and Media False Narratives

The origins and objectives of the Ukraine War have been totally misrepresented by the Biden government. Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris has continued this dishonest misrepresentation even more starkly with a blindly ignorant and unrealistic determination to defeat Russia and “save” Ukraine regardless of the costs to Ukraine, the United States, Western Europe, and the truth.  United States foreign policy and military objectives with regard to Ukraine and Russia are based on a false narrative that covers up the real truth.  At the center of this false narrative is the misguided belief that the Russian Federation, formed in 1991, is still the Soviet Union of the pre-Gorbachev Cold War. This has led to a morally dubious and aggressive strategy to demonize, isolate, weaken, and even break apart the Russian Federation. This false narrative suppresses more than 35 years of history in which the U.S. through NATO provoked Russian security concerns.

In 1999, NATO took in Poland and Hungary, breaking a 1989 promise regarding the reunification of Germany to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand east of Germany. In 1999, NATO also bombed Serbia. In 2008, NATO announced a plan to admit Ukraine and Georgia to NATO, which the Russians warned was a serious existential threat to their national security.  In 2014, the U.S. State Department, CIA, British MI6, and nefarious George Soros NGOs supported a violent overthrow of a duly elected Ukrainian president to install a pro-American, pro-NATO government hostile to Russia.

The new American-sponsored Ukrainian government began a program of cultural cleansing to rid Ukraine of Russian culture, language, and influence. This sometimes violent ethnic cleansing caused a civil war between the Ukrainian Army and the large Russian ethnic minority, which was a solid majority in southern and eastern Ukraine. Over 14,000 people were killed.

Two 2015 agreements in Minsk mediated by Germany and France arranged a cease-fire and promised equal cultural and civil rights for the Russian minority and more autonomy for the two largest predominantly Russian states in Ukraine—the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.  These agreements were never implemented by Ukraine. German and French leaders recently admitted that the Minsk agreements were never sincere. They were only a scheme to give Ukraine time to rebuild its Army and take back Crimea and the two Donbass republics.  

Discrimination against and persecution of all things Russian extended to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which was connected to the Moscow Patriarchy. In January 2019, with the help of former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. State Department officials, and the Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Kyiv Patriarchy, became the dominant Orthodox church in Ukraine and proceeded to confiscate UOC properties and persecute dissident UOC clergy and members.  

 Moreover, two April 2019 Rand Corporation papers revealed a plan to use Ukraine and sanctions to destroy and breakup Russia. These plans were discarded as unwise and risky, but they reappeared in early 2021. In early 2022, consistent with this plan, the Ukrainian Army escalated its bombardment of civilian areas of the city of Donetsk and began to concentrate troops in a position to invade and conquer the Donbas Republics. The Minsk agreements were then formally rejected by Ukrainian President Zelensky. Many Russians were by then advocating military intervention to rescue their Russian-ethnic brothers in the Donbass Republics from Ukrainian violence and tyranny. Several of these factors are elaborated in the paragraphs following.

On February 24, 2022, Russian Federation President Putin intervened both to relieve the Donbass and clearly demonstrate that Ukraine becoming a member of NATO was a red-line threat the Russians would not tolerate. Meanwhile the Ukrainians had escalated their artillery bombardment of Donetsk by ten-fold.  

The American and Western European media proclaimed in a coordinated outcry that Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine was an “unprovoked invasion.” That is one of the biggest lies of the false narrative.

This false narrative has unfortunately been embraced and supported by most Western media, which is appallingly ignorant of international affairs and history, especially Russian and Ukrainian history. The most prominent issue has been the U.S. led effort to make Ukraine an anti-Russian bulwark and member of NATO. This push began in 2008, and if implemented would place NATO missiles on the Russian border and only a few minutes from striking major Russian population centers and strategic defense assets. This would indeed be an existential threat to the Russian Federation, which could easily result in nuclear or devastating conventional war and tens if not hundreds of millions dead. 

A usually ignored but extremely important background factor of the war is that Ukraine is not a nation that is overwhelmingly Ukrainian in language, culture, and politics. Only 60 percent of the residents of pre-2014 Ukraine considered Ukrainian their native language. Nearly 20 percent considered Russian their native language and slightly more than 20 percent considered both Russian and Ukrainian their native language. This powerful combination of 40-plus percent Russian and mixed Russian-Ukrainian was easily visible in Ukrainian national elections. Most of this pro-Russian population was concentrated in eastern and southern Ukraine, where nine states ranged from 60 to 90 percent pro-Russian.  

The Ukraine War did not start in February 2022 as most Americans and Europeans have been misinformed to believe. As already stated, it really started in February 2014, when the U.S. State Department, the CIA, Soros connected NGOs, and British MI6 Intelligence encouraged and supported the violent mob-driven overthrow of duly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was pro-neutrality and for maintaining good economic and political relations with Russia. The 2014 violent street demonstrations and coup are often referred to as the Maidan Revolution. The Russian and Russian-Ukrainian majorities in eastern and southern Ukraine were outraged. The new anti-Russian coup government responded with violence and repression and began implementing cultural cleansing programs to eliminate Russian language, culture, religious, and political influence in Ukraine and especially predominantly Russian regions.

This occurred during the Obama Administration, but then Vice President Joe Biden, his recent Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, and his present National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan had major roles in planning and supporting the Maidan Revolution and coup of 2014. Moreover according to Nuland, $5.0 billion was spent on the kind of “democratization” necessary for this violent revolution and shameful regime change coup. 

Crimea and its major Black Sea port and naval base in Sevastopol, which had large and alarmed Russian majorities, immediately seceded from Ukraine with overwhelming referendum mandates and were granted acssession by the Russian Federation. Crimea had  been part of Russia since 1783, and never wanted to be part of Ukraine, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arbitrarily made it part of Ukraine in 1954. The Russian accession of Crimea in 2014 was welcomed and over 90 percent of Ukrainian troops in Crimea went over to the Russians. There was no fighting or casualties.

The two Donbass states of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as others, attempted to secede from Ukraine. The Russians, however, initially preferred that they remain in Ukraine in a semi-autonomous status. That would have retained a strong pro-Russian minority in Ukrainian elections and politics. The Minsk agreement in May 2015 is extremely important to understanding the Ukraine War. It  promised some autonomy to the 90-percent Russian Donbass states of Donetsk and Lugansk.  Donetsk, which is the most highly populated state in Ukraine, is also the richest in natural resources and industrial capacity. In fact, Ukraine’s natural resources are disproportionately located in Russian-ethnic southeastern Ukraine.

However,  with the backing of France, Germany, the UK, and the U.S., Ukraine refused to implement the promises of the May 2015 Minsk agreement.   It was later revealed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and others that these NATO powers never intended to implement the Minsk agreements. Their whole purpose was to delay further war until the Ukrainian Army was strong enough to take back Crimea and the dissident Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

On April 24, 2019, the Rand Corporation, a major U.S. military think tank, published two related study papers at Department of Defense request with plans to use Ukraine to provoke and sustain a proxy war with Russia with the ultimate objective of weakening Russia by war and sanctions.  This would result in regime change, removing Putin, and ultimately the breakup of Russia into dominatable and exploitable parts. The related Rand Corporation papers by James Dobbins et al, were entitled: Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground and Overextending and Unbalancing Russia. These total together about 350 pages. They can be found on the internet.

Col. Jacques Baud is a retired Chief of Staff of Swiss Strategic Intelligence and former NATO consultant. He has written several informative books on the Ukraine War. In his 2023 book, Ukraine between War and Peace, he outlines the Rand Corporation’s six-step process using Ukraine to destroy Russia:

Step 1 was the intensification of artillery strikes against the population of the two Donbass states of Donetsk and Lugansk. This would provoke Step 2.

Step 2, Russian intervention, which occurred on February 24, 2022.

Step 3. Massive international sanctions against Russia. This was a sweeping campaign of economic and other sanctions triggered against Russia. According to the plan, it would be the sanctions that would bring Russia down.

Step 4, These sanctions would result in the economic collapse of Russia

Step 5 This economic collapse would provoke popular discontent and the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. 

Step 6,  The Decolonization Process of Russia—The Russian Federation would be broken into between 19 and 34 smaller states, which cannot threaten US security or resist the demands of US hegemony. Russia’s great natural resources could then be exploited for Western economic and financial gain.

This plan was rejected as unwise and too risky in 2019, but evidently rebirthed under the Biden government in 2021. The Rand Corporation had warned against the risks of such a plan. They predicted exactly what is happening now. Ukraine is destroyed. U.S. credibility is severely undermined, and the risk of full-scale Russian-American war is elevated to disastrous levels.

It in February 2022, Putin realized the Minsk hope for peace and Russian civil rights in Ukraine had been betrayed. Moreover, Ukrainian troops were massing near Donetsk, and Ukrainian artillery had escalated bombardment of civilian areas of Donetsk by ten-fold. This caused the Russian people in the Russian Federation to put pressure on Putin and Russian leadership to come to the aid of their Russian kinfolk in the Donbass. 

On February 24, 2022, Putin intervened with a Special  Military Operation (SMO) designed to bring Ukraine to serious negotiations on implementing the Minsk agreements. The Western media became part of the Biden government propaganda campaign by calling Putin’s SMO an “unprovoked” invasion. Actually, the war had started with the events of 2014 and 2015, and it was the West that continually provoked Russian concerns about NATO expansion and cultural and ethnic cleansing of the large Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine. This stepped up ethnic cleansing was the last straw that broke the camel’s back and resulted in the Russian intervention in the form of the SMO forces approaching the Ukrainian capital in Kyiv.

The  original objective of Putin’s SMO was to implement the Minsk agreements and guarantee that Ukraine would not become a NATO member but remain a sovereign nation militarily and economically neutral.

Only a little more then a month later, in late March and early April 2022, this was agreed to and signed by both Ukraine and the Russian Federation at negotiations hosted in Istanbul, Turkey. As an initial peace gesture, Putin redirected Russian forces away from Kyiv. This agreement was, however, vetoed by the U.S. and UK, who pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky to continue fighting until Russia was defeated and humiliated, promising him inexhaustible military and financial support. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered the options to Zelensky in Kyiv on April 8, 2022.  What we have seen in the last two and a half years is the failure of the 2019 Rand Corporation plan, just as predicted by the Rand Corporation, but picked up by the Biden government in 2021.

Project Ukraine has continued, and Ukraine has been nearly destroyed. Many credible military analysts estimate over 600,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. Russian casualties, while significant, are probably less than 10 percent of the Ukrainian total. Nearly half of Ukraine’s 2010 population has fled Ukraine and have no intention of returning. Russia has thrived despite the sanctions. Our incompetent foreign policy has pushed Russia into a strong economic and military alliance with China. We have poured $200 billion into Project Ukraine with disastrous results for Ukraine. Because of the unconscionably excessive Ukrainian loss of 600,000 soldiers in a dubious hegemonic cause that has nothing to do with democracy in Ukraine or anywhere else, Project Ukraine may be among the biggest scandals in U.S. history.

It is a scandal the Biden government, Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party, and some neo-Liberal Republicans aligned with them on Project Ukraine, do not want the public to know, especially before the November 5 Election.