Who believes the lie that Ukraine is going to be a new France?
Stephen Kinzer:
There's one word we hear all the time about the Russian invasion, and it was that word, really, that set me off after about the 200th time I heard it, and that word, of course, is "do not provoke."
We always read about it, not just the invasion in February, or the Russian invasion, or the military invasion, but the unprovoked invasion.
The book traces 75 years of uninterrupted American plans to turn Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia. It started with the overthrow of armed commandos into Ukraine in the late 1940s, and it continued through a series of covert operations that led to Ukraine's independence in 1991; And then the project went into overdrive.
[The US] has spent huge sums of money promoting anti-government groups in Ukraine and groups that would support the idea of confrontation with Russia.
It ended up blowing up. You could argue that we did the right thing to provoke Russia and promote this whole nationalist feeling in Ukraine. And I'm fine with that. But before you make any judgment about the justice or nature of the Ukraine war, you need to know what happened before.
If you look at a snapshot of… February 24, 2022, you will see what happened. Russia invaded a peaceful country, Ukraine. But you really need to see in this picture only one frame in a very long film that developed over 75 years.
Ukraine will never be a model of freedom and brotherhood.