We can never again trust the American, British or Israeli governments - we have met the enemy and he is us

When the distinguished British journalist Peter Hitchens saw that the invasion of Iraq (of which his brother Christopher had been a leading proponent) had been a terrible mistake it made him to rethink what had been an article of faith for him and most people of his generation and decide that Britain going to war with Germany in 1939 had also been a mistake.

He was right.

The failed attempt by the CIA and Mossad to bring down the Iranian government makes it obvious that the 2014 revolution in Kiev was from the same script.

This does not justify Putin's invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 but it fully explains them. He was provoked and retaliated in a way that Americans had not been predicted but they should have done.

Why were Americans meddling in Ukraine at all? It started in the 1990s when they set up pro-Western newspapers.

This is a CIA memo from March 1953 reviewing its clandestine activities to overthrow the democratic Iranian government: a. Mass propaganda means (press, etc.) b. Poison pen, personal denunciations, rumour spreading, etc. c. Street riots, demonstrations, mobs, etc. 5 months later the Prime Minister Mosaddegh was gone and the Shah became an absolute monarch or dictator.