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 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. England and France's declaration of war led to the fall of France and Japan's attack on the British empire and in the end to half of Europe being ruled by Bolsheviks.
We learn about the past from the present, much more than the other way around.
Similarly the failed attempt over recent days by the CIA and Mossad to bring down the Iranian government removes my doubts about the 2014 revolution in Kiev.
Yes, it 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 the Americans had not predicted.
They should have done.
After all they have experience. They have brought down about a hundred foreign governments.
Why were Americans meddling in Ukraine at all?
They started in the 1990s when they set up pro-Western newspapers.
They did so from all sorts of motives which we could dissect and critique, largely a hangover from the Cold War.
But behind the motives was what Nietzsche called the will to power.
Below is a CIA memo from March 1953 reviewing its clandestine activities to overthrow the democratic Iranian government that year: 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.
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