How Obama, Biden, And The EU Started The Ukraine War – Armed Forces Press
After the historic Alaska Summit between President Trump and President Putin, the world is a much safer place, and we can finally see a glimmer of peaceful light at the end of the dark Ukraine war tunnel. Yet the warmonger globalists are currently doing everything they can to snuff out the light by blanketing the globe with political propaganda and psychological manipulation of reality. The primary technique of propagandists and psychological manipulators is to change/erase history. The primary way to counter their efforts is to say out loud and share fact-based knowledge of history. What follows is a short fact-based refresher on the history of how the war started and who was responsible.
2010: Victor Yanukovych won the Presidential election and became president of Ukraine. Six years earlier (2004) Victor Yanukovych also won the Presidential election in Ukraine, however the results were overturned by the US State Department and CIA instigated color revolution. In 2010 Yanukovych ran on a platform of Ukrainian neutrality toward Russia and the EU, which resulted in him winning the popular vote and the election which was certified by the OSCE as “free and fair.
What Are Color Revolutions? “Color revolution” is a term used to describe a sophisticated form of warfare[xxv] that foreign governments and their agents use to create the conditions for political instability and, eventually, regime change in the targeted country. To accomplish their purpose of regime change, the foreign governments use cutting edge technology and psychology, as well as a strong role of non-government organizations (NGO’s) and contractors to sponsor, plan, and organize the opposition, their messaging, and the protests.[4] Since the year 2003, most color revolutions have taken place in post-Soviet states, specifically, Georgia, Ukraine twice, and Kyrgyzstan.
Since becoming an independent nation in 1991, Ukraine has been a nation divided. Most describe this division in terms of language. About 60% of Ukrainians speak Ukrainian as their native language, most live in western Ukraine. About 40% of Ukrainians are Russian speakers who mostly live in the east. However, these language differences are a symptom of a larger divide, that of culture and the ancestral roots that created those cultures. This all becomes clearer when we look at an ethno-linguistic map of Ukraine.
September 2013: Victoria Nuland is appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. A U.S. diplomat for 35 years, Nuland served six of the last seven U.S. Presidents (she resigned from the State Department when Donald Trump was elected in 2016, then rejoined when Biden became President in 2020). She also worked for 10 Secretaries of State, to include Hilary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as a special assistant to Dick Cheney. Nuland was no stranger to Ukraine politics and had amassed one of the most decorated Deep State resumes with regards to meddling in the affairs of Eastern European nations. Nuland’s specialty was the color revolution model. All she needed was a divisive issue to exploit. She didn’t have to search long to find one.
With Ukraine’s treasury running low on funds due to overspending and corruption, President Viktor Yanukovych faced an economic choice. To shore up government coffers Ukraine needed a loan. One option was to take a $17 Billion dollar loan from the European Union and its International Monetary Fund. Taking the EU loan would require, partial EU ownership of Ukrainian gas conglomerates, oversight by the EU, and forced austerity measures to include a 40% increase in natural gas bills for the average Ukrainian citizen. The other option was to accept a $15 Billion dollar loan from Russia which offered better repayment rates, no austerity measures, and a 33% discount on natural gas.
Unsurprisingly, Yanukovych rejected the EU deal and opted for Moscow’s bailout instead. The decision made sense for the Ukrainian economy, it made sense for the citizens of Ukraine who depend on natural gas to heat their homes, and it made sense for Yanukovych as a politician, who would be up for reelection in 2016.
Although 59% of Ukrainians did not support the EU loan option, and the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Kiev whole-heartedly supported President Yanukovych’s decision to reject it, Victoria Nuland and her team of State Department and CIA administrators saw the decision as a catalyst to foment dissent, organize protests, and overthrow the NATO neutral administration of President Yanukovych.
The Maidan Protests: The protests began on November 21, 2013, and were live streamed by multiple media outlets across Ukraine and all across Europe. Facebook played a prominent role in coordinating the protestors and their messaging.[xxxv] As the tension ratcheted up so did the amount of time the citizenry in both eastern and western Ukraine stayed glued to their TV sets and computers. You can still find most of the videos from European media outlets on-line today. These video’s provide visual and auditory proof of the reality of the situation on the ground, and by proxy make folly of the propaganda version of reality promoted by Victoria Nuland, the EU, and their corporate media allies who described the protests as: “peaceful,” “organic,” and “spontaneous.” What follows is a sample of what can be found in the on-line video’s filmed in 2013 and 2014.
· In media interviews with protestors, many explain that the reason they are doing what they are doing is because “this is what the protest organizers told us to do.”
· Soros owned and operated NGO’s provide food, water, porta-potties, tents, and protective gear to the protestors. At least three of the NGOs in Ukraine were involved in previous color revolutions and were funded by both the USAID, and George Soros.
· Hundreds of protestors wearing the same models of orange hard-hat helmets and balaclavas. (See picture below).
Perhaps most concerning is how many neo-Nazis/ultra-nationalists can be seen leading the protests by shouting orders and directing protestors on what to do next. Many have swastikas or related versions of the swastika on their arms and on their backpacks. Many have patches with the number 88 on them, 8 stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet ‘H”. Thus 88 stands for “HH” which stands for Heil Hitler.
Masked and armed, the individuals who attacked the police nearly all had armbands with the neo-Nazi wolf’s hook symbol, linking them to the far-right Social-National Assembly.
There are numerous videos of neo-Nazi’s explaining their beliefs to journalists: “We love our homeland and hate the Russians.” “Ukraine is for Ukrainian pure bloods only.” “Ethnic Russians and Jews control the economy and politics; they should be killed.”
Ethnic Russians around the country were starting to get nervous about what they were seeing and hearing.In December, a lawmaker from Sevastopol, Sergei Smolyaninov, asked Putin to bring Russian troops into Ukraine to protect ethnic-Russians in Crimea. In January, such appeals by lawmakers would significantly intensify.
December 15, 2013: Senator John McCain (RAZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), flew to Kiev to show solidarity and support of the protestors. McCain and Murphy dined with opposition leaders, including members of the anti-Semitic Svoboda party, and later appeared on stage in Maidan Square during a mass rally, where McCain addressed the protestors while standing shoulder to shoulder with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of Svoboda. “You need Europe, and Europe needs you.” McCain shouted to the crowd “Ukraine will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better,” he added. He also delivered warnings of stern reactions from the U.S. should President Yanukovychuse violence against the protesters.
December 1 – Jan 15, 2014: EU Politicians from Berlin and Brussels also made what they described as “morale-boosting” trips to the square. To understand the provocative nature of such moves, you only need to recall the political outrage over the since proven false allegations that Moscow had used troll farms to influence the US Presidential election in 2016. This unprecedented meddling in the internal affairs of Ukraine by US and European politicians directly violated the Budapest Memorandum Treaty of 1994. To put the actions of the US and EU politicians in context, imagine if Chinese politicians showed up at an anti-government rally in Mexico and urged the participants to overthrow the US neutral government in favor of one that was controlled by China. It’s unimaginable.
February 4, 2014: Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a telephone call in which Victoria Nuland and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel to replace President Victor Yanukovych.
Nuland and Pyatt also discussed the complex dynamic among the three principal opposition leaders, Victor Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tyahnybok, and Vitali Klitschko. Both Pyatt and Nuland agreed that it was best to keep Tyahnybok and Klitschko out of an interim government. In the former case, they worried about his neo-Nazi/extremist ties; in the latter, they seemed to want him to wait and make a bid for office on a longer‐term basis. Nuland stated that “I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary.” She added that what Yatseniuk needed, “is Klitsch and Tyanhybok on the outside.”
Nuland made clear that the U.Sfavored opposition candidate was Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who Nuland referred to as “Yats.” Yatsenyuk is an English-speaking lawyer and economist. Observers say he is smart, though not very charismatic. Critically, he was a protege of Tymoshenko, who the US State Department picked as opposition leader during Ukraine’s 2004 Color Revolution. During the telephone call, Nuland stated enthusiastically that, “Yats is the guy, who would do the best job.”
The two diplomats also revealed they were prepared to escalate the already extensive U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s internal affairs. Pyatt remarked that, “we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing (the post-coup transition].” Nuland clearly had Vice President Joe Biden in mind for that role. Noting that she was in contact with, “Jake Sullivan,” the Vice President’s National Security Adviser, and Sullivan informed her that “Joe Biden was willing and available to provide an atta‐boy and to get the details to stick. So Biden’s willing.”
February 4th-20th, 2014: Nuland and Pyatthad their pro-Nato opposition leader selected and ready, all that was needed was a situation or event they could use as a catalyst to finish off the Yanukovych presidency. During the first three weeks of February, clashes between security forces and protestors intensified.
Feb. 20, 2014: Victoria Nuland saw her big chance on Feb. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor, shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis to Global attention.
Sniper mass murder: The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kyiv, Bernard Casey, described what he saw and heard on the ground: “On February 18-20, 2014, snipers massacred about 100 people (both protestors and police) on the Maidan, which means “Independence Square” in English. Although the US Ambassador and the opposition blamed the Yanukovych Administration, the evidence points to the shots coming from a hotel controlled by the ultranationalists, and the ballistics revealed that the protestors and the police were all shot with the same weapons.[lx]” The Estonian foreign minister would later echo these claims: “Behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new (opposition) coalition.”
The U.S Chamber of Commerce President continued: “Also on February 20, 2014, eight busloads of ethnic Russians from Crimea, who had come to Kiev to participate in Anti-Maidan demonstrations, were returning home when neo-Nazi terrorists attacked the convoy, burning the buses, and brutally beating, torturing, and even killing some of the peaceful demonstrators. This horrific event, now memorialized as the “Korsun Massacre”, was a turning point to Crimea’s destiny.Up to this point, the same neo-Nazi/ultranationalists had only threatened to launch attacks on ethnic Russians, now the threats were real, as the “Kosum Massacre” was covered extensively on TV and social media in Crimea.”
Feb. 21, 2014: For a brief period, it looked like the escalating crisis might be resolved peacefully when Yanukovych and the opposition parties signed an EU brokered deal, wherein he would agree to share powers with the opposition and also call for early elections in May. But the deal was met with outrage from the USAID/NGO funded militant protestors in the streets, as well as their American sponsors (Nuland and Pyatt), who immediately rejected it.
Feb. 22, 2014: The next night, well-trained militias from the Right Sektor and Svoboda, organized in 100-man brigades called “sotins” or “the hundreds,” led the final assaults against police.[lxiii] Within hours they had fire-bombed and overrun key government buildings, causing Yanukovych and many of his colleagues to flee for their lives. With swastika flags flying at city hall, and armed thugs patrolling the corridors of power, the final path to “regime change” was clear.
The coup was almost complete. Instead of trying to salvage the EU brokered agreement, Victoria Nuland and European Union officials arranged for an unconstitutional parliamentary procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declare a newly appointed regime “legitimate.”
As violence escalated around the country, an unmarked U.S. government plane touched down at a private airport in Kyiv. Onboard was John O. Brennan, the director of the C.I.A. The purpose of his “Top Secret” visit was to meet with the newly anointed Ukraine spy chief, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. The meeting also was attended by the CIA’s Ukrainian station chief, and his British counterpart from the MI6. Three key topics were discussed: control of Ukrainian gas, status of the Russian Naval Base in Sevastopol Crimea, and the formation of a three-way intelligence partnership between the US, UK, and Ukraine. “That’s how it all started,” Mr. Nalyvaichenko would later tell the New York Times (NYT).
In the weeks and months after the regime change, the Ultranationalists/neo-Nazis effectively controlled the Ukrainian government, which empowered and enabled them to attack the ethnic-Russian people of Donbas. From 2014 to 2022, over 14k ethnic-Russian citizens of Donbas were killed at the hands of Ukrainian forces.
In an effort to end the war against the ethnic Russians of Eastern Ukraine, Russia backed the Minsk accords. The accords, which were endorsed by the U.N. Security Council with U.S. assent, would have left the breakaway eastern provinces inside Ukraine with autonomy. However, the Biden administration, along with the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine, including three years under Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blocked its implementation. German President Amgela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande would later admit they strung Russia along to buy time for NATO to arm and train Ukraine.
The continued slaughter of 14k ethnic-Russian citizens in Donbas, as well as the inflammatory statements and actions of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Biden administration officials, and the EU, provoked Russia to enter the war in 2022.
Most western Ukrainians were duped by the propaganda they were fed from Zelensky, and the USAID funded international media: that the revolution was organic, that neo-Nazi involvement was negligible, and that the Russian invasion of their country was unprovoked. Western Ukrainians have had no way of knowing that they were being used as proxies by foreign government administrators who could care less about their well-being, and who are still to this day, willing to continue fighting the war to last Ukrainian.
Conclusion: The Ukraine war started in 2014 when unelected officials from the Obama administration and their EU allies partnered with NGO’s to foment dissent, create political instability, and violently overthrow the duly elected President of Ukraine. Senseless decisions have consequences. The more senseless the decision, the more dire the consequences. If not for the decisions made by the Obama administration and the EU to overthrow the Yanukovych government in 2014, todays Ukraine would have cheaper assured gas, a potentially thriving economy and culture, and Crimea and Donbass would still be 100% part of the country. Instead, the economy, culture, and infrastructure lay in ruins, over 1.5 million people have been killed, and Crimea and Donbas will never willingly reunite with Ukraine. Now that you know the history, say it out loud and share it.