What is the Ukraine war about? Why did Vladimir Putin send troops into Ukraine? There is hardly one word of common ground between the Russian and Western version of the reasons for this dangerous conflict. The wall to wall censorship of alternative views in the West and the censorship of Russian news makes a balanced judgment impossible. That is why this website has sought to put the alternative.
These 6 points briefly put the alternative interpretation which is missing from the western press and political discussion:
- This is not a war between Ukraine and Russia but between NATO/EU and Russia and has been going on geopolitically for about 20 years and in military terms since the coup against an elected government and the Ukrainian attack on the Russians of the Donbas in 2014. It has become an attempt to create “regime change” in Russia just as NATO/EU’s coups in Ukraine did in 2004 and 2014
- Russia’s entry into Ukraine was not unprovoked. It was to retaliate against Ukraine attacks on Ukrainian Russians, the shelling of the Donbas, the Odessa massacre, Ukraine’s breaking of the Minsk Agreements and the deaths of some 14,000 Russian Ukrainians including 150 children since 2014
- The dominant role of overt Nazi troops in the attacks on the Donbas and the institutionalised Nazism of Ukrainian society (http://freenations.net/ukraines-institutionalised-nazism/ and http://freenations.net/ukraine-nazis-embrace-nato-and-the-swastika-zelenskys-nazi-friends-crimes-of-azov-and-aidar-battalions-murder-outside-mariupol/ ) justifies Putin’s description of a “denazification process”
- Putin did not want to conquer Ukraine or to force it to join a Russian pact or political union. (Ukraine freely left the Confederation of Independent States). He wanted an independent and neutral Ukraine without foreign troops on its soil. Not only had Zelensky repeatedly called for just that but he had hinted at restoring Ukraine’s nuclear weapons.
- It is NATO/EU which wants Ukraine to lose its sovereignty – militarily to NATO and constitutionally to the EU. The active role of American officials and troops in Ukraine and the EU’s “fast tracking” of Ukraine into their anti democratic bureaucratic Superstate have demonstrated this process of Ukrainian surrender to an expansionist West.
- It was the West and its non governmental organisations (like the USA’s Foundation for Democracy, George Soros and German political Foundations) which overturned democracy in Ukraine with the Orange revolution of 2004 and the Maidan revolution of 2014 (funded by the USA with $5 billion). In other words long before “Russia attacked Ukraine” the West had attacked and taken over Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the war the threat to Russia has increased with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warning in June that Moscow will push Ukrainian forces further back from the Russian border in response to Western nations giving Kyiv longer-range weapons.
Since then the USA has sent High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, and the UK sent M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS).
THE SANCTIONS FARCE – THE WEST’S CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD
The boomerang effects on western economies of anti Russian sanctions have been devastating. The massive increase in the costs or shortages of grain, fertiliser, oil and above all gas are due to the futile attempt by the West to starve Russia of revenue on top of their illegal confiscation of Russian foreign exchange reserves.
The political results of the rise in the cost of living are considerable as Macron loses his parliamentary majority, the Italian and Bulgarian governments are in crisis, the UK faces its worst ever cost of living crisis without a Prime Minister in office and Germany is in its worst economic crisis since the second world war.
The lack of gas in Germany and Europe is due entirely to western sanctions.
1. Germany refused to authorise the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline built by Russia.
2. The West blocked payment in dollars and euros so Russia could not accept payment for its gas in those contracted currencies
3. Canada blocked the return of a repaired Siemens turbine for the Nordstream 1 gas pipeline, reducing gas supply to Europe
4. Germany said sanctions remain until “Russia defeated” – but then panicked about the turbine and now begs Russia to take the turbine and resume full gas deliveries. The Russians say other turbines will need servicing and so only a comprehensive guarantee on their return to the pipeline is acceptable. So deliveries remain far lower than capacity.
5. There is a pipeline system going through Ukraine but much of that has been stopped by Zelensky.
In the UK, whose Government is the most stringent supporter of these disastrous sanctions, the energy price crisis is costing billions. The cost to the Government of reducing consumer bills should be given to the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence for it is their Russia policy which has caused the cost crisis.
THE GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SANCTIONS – AFRICA
The African Union recently met under the presidency of the President of Senegal and discussed the food crisis brought about chiefly by Western sanctions on Russia and Ukraine’s mining and blocking of their own Black Sea ports.
Russia is Africa’s main grain supplier and a deal has been done for the supply of food. This has been facilitated more recently by the Ukraine Russia UN deal to guarantee shipments of grain from Ukraine. But this has been a big defeat for Western influence in Africa, which is also growing ever closer to China as the USA has pivoted towards containing China in Asia!
Gazprom bank will be opening branches all over Africa and the African Union are working with Russia on how to access the Russian MIR payments system. In the meantime they will – like so many in Europe – pay for grain and fertiliser in roubles, further boosting that very strong currency.
