Senior US Diplomats, Academics and
Secretaries of Defense Say:
The US Provoked Russia in Ukraine
Donald Smith / Progressive Memes
(December 9, 2024) — US hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that the Pentagon has invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Vietnam, Panama, Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria).
The US occupies one-third of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces.
Russia’s invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia.
US meddling included “engineering” the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. The US has also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian-speaking inhabitants in the eastern Ukraine.
Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The US exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war.
The RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to “weaken and overextend” Russia and predicted it would result in a war. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad “effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many ‘sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'”
Jack Matlock (former US Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: “Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?”
Matlock said the US-backed 2014 coup: “Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And, in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea.”
Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are “dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis. We tend to ignore that or, when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying.”
The US government lies about every war. They’re lying, too, about the one in Ukraine.
