Member-only story
The US Wanted a War with Russia, So They Engineered One in Ukraine
We know the US wanted a war with Russia in Ukraine. Here is the HOW and the WHY.
In my earlier article, “Can we please stop saying the Ukraine war was “unprovoked”?, I painstakingly detailed the decades of history that led to the current conflict in Russia: the NATO enlargement, the 2014 Maidan Coup, the cynical betrayal by the West in the Minsk Accords.
In this piece, I want to concentrate on the more proximate provocations in the weeks and months leading up to Putin’s launching his “Special Military Operation” and explore the many reasons WHY the Western powers wanted this conflict with Russia so badly, HOW they knew that Russia could be provoked into starting a conflict, and WHY they felt so assured that they would win such a conflict quickly and easily.
We will also look at how the planned strategic defeat of Russia was fundamental to the overall geopolitical strategy of the US and its allies.
It all started in 2008
In 2008, three pivotal events happened: (1) the Russians declared their “brightest of all red lines” regarding Ukraine and NATO, (2) NATO subsequently offered an “open door invitation” to Ukraine and Georgia, and (3) a US puppet government in Georgia launched the short-lived Russo-Georgian conflict over the ethnic Russian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
