The KGB instigated the East European revolutions of 1989, the CIA instigated the colour revolutions

Col. Laurence Wilkerson was Chief of Staff to Colin Powell when he was Secretary of State. Today talking to Glenn Diesen he gave the most convincing explanation I have seen of the origins of the Ukrainian war. He says capture of Ukraine was long planned from the turn of the century by the US, using NGOs as a weapon of war. 

The CIA, Mossad and MI6 captured Ukraine.

"In 2002 and 3, I saw the CIA in league with the military, particularly the four star and couple of three stars in European command recruiting and talking about how they needed the help of everyone in Ukraine and they viewed the so-called Bandera group, the Azov Battalion, others like them, as the most stalwart rugged fighters in Ukraine. At the time I wondered what the hell are we doing and why are we doing it? And then when I left the State Department, I kept my eye a little bit on what was happening in Ukraine. And I realized that up to 2014, we were doing the same thing, but in spades. And I realized that Mossad was there, MI6 was there, and they had a tag team going with developing Ukraine to be not just a member of NATO, but the formidable power in NATO and at the same time rape, pillage and plunder its resources, which is always an imperial desire. 

"I mean, it started very early, very early. The same time, very much the same time, as a matter of fact, we were buying newspaper editors, we were buying newspapers, we were buying television stations, we were buying communicators in general, we were setting the NGO's on them without their knowing it lots of time (they'd been infiltrated by the CIA). And we were teaching them, we were weaponizing liberal democracy. We did it in Georgia. We did it everywhere. And we were very successful.

"We were very successful. I remember some people asking me, "Why do you think these people suddenly cast aside neutrality and wanted to be members of NATO?" Would you like to know why? We built their governments. We paid for their governments. Just as surely as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon paid for the labor union heads, the newspaper editors, the business leaders in Chile to get rid of Santiago."

As early as 2001 USAID-backed Internews was forming Ukraine’s media landscape, training 1900 journalists and working with 203 TV stations and 126 radio stations. This is about pro-US propaganda. I admit I hadn't realised how much the US did to bring about the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. 

I was in Kiev shortly afterwards and did not hear about this. 

Instead Ukrainians asked me why John Laughland had written an article criticising the revolution. 

I mentioned this to a British freelance journalist who said he did not understand what ideological position Laughland held, since he seemed to sympathise with Venezuela and Iran. 

It's clear now what Laughland's position was: opposition to American expansionism. 

He has been very amply vindicated.

An analogy occurs to me. The East European revolutions of 1989 were probably instigated by the KGB and the colour revolutions of the early 21st century by the CIA.

What a pity the CIA was not wound up, as was proposed by Republicans, after the cold war ended - and Nato too.