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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.
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.
Peter Hitchens was right about World War Two. England and France's declaring war on Germany led to the fall of France, Japan's attack on the British empire and in the end to half of Europe being ruled by Bolsheviks. Perhaps seventy million died.
Britain going to war with Germany was not a mistake. With no Allied victory, Nazism would have triumphed!
ReplyDeleteWhen 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.
ReplyDeleteHe 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. No he was wrong. The alternative was Europe ruled by NAZI’s , an even worse fate! Britain was right to go to war!
England and France's declaration of war led to the fall of France, Japan's attack on the British empire and in the end to half of Europe being ruled by Bolsheviks.
DeleteHad Hitler advanced on Moscow without diverting his attention and had he not declared war on the USA Germany would have won without defeating Britain. As it was Britain ceased to be a a great empire and great power.
Had we done as Lloyd George counselled and armed to the teeth but remained neutral Hitler presumably would have confined himself to the east, which he said was his one target according to Mein Kampf.
Perhaps seventy million died. But do you agree that the (so far) failed regime change operation in Tehran suggests that Kiev 2014 was an Anglo-American plot?
DeleteI linked to an article by Peter Hitchens. Of course going to war with Germany was much more of a mistake than going to war with Iraq, though unlike in Iraq with Germany we had international law on our side. https://unherd.com/2019/11/the-war-was-not-our-finest-hour/
DeleteGetting back to the subject here ia an interesting post from X.
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They knew all along about false flag Maidan massacre: Deputy head of Zelensky Office of President of Ukraine told Western ambassadors on February 19, 2014 that Maidan protesters were shot in the back by other Maidan activists & police did not shoot them.
Nobody is convicted for killings of 27 Maidan protesters & 12 policemen and Internal Troops servicemen on Maidan on February 18-19, 2014.
Tatarov, who then was deputy head of investigative department of Ministry of Internal Affairs, was first to publicly refer to false flag Maidan massacre one day before 49 Maidan activists & 4 police officers were killed in false flag mass killing.
Oleh Tatarov, who then was the deputy head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was the first to publicly refer to the false flag Maidan massacre one day before 49 Maidan activists and 4 police officers were killed in the false flag mass killing.
My open access book "The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing That Changed the World" and four peer-reviewed journal articles show overwhelming evidence that the Maidan massacre was a false flag mass killing of Maidan activists and police with involvement of far-right and oligarchic elements of the Maidan opposition in order to overthrow the Ukrainian government. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67121-0
A member of the Maidan leadership from the Fatherland party was filmed on February 18, 2014, evacuating a car with a hunting rifle, equipped with a silencer and optics, of a Maidan activist, who was stopped by other Maidan activists. A person who helped in the evacuation became an aide to one of leading members of Fatherland, who became the Minister of Internal Affairs after Euromaidan, and whose ministry was involved in investigations of killings of the protestors and the police on the Maidan. Three protesters were killed and up to 33 wounded with hunting pellets in the same area around the same time.
The Ukrainian investigation did not identify any suspects in killings of 12 protesters during a storming of the Maidan by the police in the evening of February 18 and around midnight. The GPU, the special parliamentary commission, a media report based on the GPU investigation, and other evidence reported that about half of them were killed by pellets or hunting bullets. Maidan activists armed with hunting firearms, in particular, from the far-right Right Sector and Svoboda-linked Maidan company, were filmed by various media and social media. They also were reported by numerous eyewitnesses, primarily, Maidan protesters.
There has been no investigations of involvements of groups of Maidan snipers in Hotel Ukraina and the Trade Union building and other nearby buildings for killings of these protesters in spite of various such evidence and in spite of similar killings of the police around the same time and place, in particular, by hunting pellets and bullets. For instance, a Hotel Ukraina employee said that he witnessed a group of snipers in Maidan style uniforms and with weapons in cases entering the hotel shortly before the massacre started on February 18. A Fatherland deputy said that he witnessed protesters killed near him on the Maidan by shooters from the Hotel Ukraina and Kozatsky Hotel on the same day.
DeleteKyiv court rulings specifically refer to two Right Sector activists, who were wounded during a Right Sector attack of a separatist checkpoint in Sloviansk on April 20, 2014 and many other Right Sector members as suspects in GPU investigation in killings and wounding the police on the Maidan. The court decisions stated that the weapons used by the wounded checkpoint attackers were the same weapons from which two Internal Troops servicemen were killed and three other policemen wounded on the Maidan on February 18, 2014.
There is also evidence that there were armed Maidan shooters linked to the oligarchic Fatherland Party. A top person in the security of the Fatherland party admitted in the Ukrainian media shooting the police on the Maidan. The Ukrainian media reported five years afterwards that Kyiv prosecutors found that killers of two traffic policemen in Kyiv on February 19 were among Maidan snipers. These killers received phone calls from prominent female and male parliament deputies from one of the oligarchic Maidan parties after killing these policemen during a traffic stop. The investigation after these findings was transferred to the police and completely stalled. The two killed policemen were included in the “Heavenly Hundred” of killed Maidan protesters, and their killing was publicly attributed to pro-Yanukovych government titushki.