"In the Lord we trust..." When I read that devotional inscription on a paper dollar sixty cents, I always get the feeling, that it's quivering and whimpering in religious ecstasy. This is our official motto. The real one, as you can see, is quite different: "When we want something, we go and get it!" Mark Twain, 100 years ago
Three months ago, the Security Service of Ukraine, controlled by President Zelensky, charged me in absentia with treason for my anti-war posts in social networks and interviews: they were assessed as extremely dangerous for the current government in Ukraine. Therefore, this article will be full of quotes from famous people, whom I (with their tacit consent) take as witnesses of my objectivity and rightness – I think that the Ukrainian security service will not dare to bring a similar stupid accusation against all of them.
So, the first aggravation of relations between Ukraine and Russia began long before 2022, back in 2004-2005, after the “soft” coup, when the first elected president Viktor Yanukovych was not recognized as president by the crowd in the central square of Kiev (Maidan) and the Supreme Court of Ukraine and was forced to concede victory to his rival, a protégé of the United States, Viktor Yushchenko. It was then that the massive penetration of clearly anti-Russian politicians (Yatsenyuk, Zvarych, Hrytsenko, Nalyvaychenko, Bilozir, Lutsenko, Tymoshenko) into the offices of power began; it was then that Soros wrapped his web of foundations and various non-governmental organizations around the system of mass media, education, culture, judiciary, justice; in parallel, he gave the green light to lobbying activities in Ukraine of various structures such as USAID, Transparency International, etc. It was then that the history of Ukraine began to be rewritten, and the people of Ukraine themselves began to be divided – by place of birth (Donbass or Western Ukraine), by language (Russian- or Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainian), by faith (Orthodox Church or Greek Catholic).
Ukraine was fully prepared as an instrument of struggle against Russia, which after the “drunken” Yeltsin’s 1990s was trying to get out from under the influence of the U.S. and to declare not only its subjectivity in the international arena, but also to reapply for a place as one of the leading powers of the world. Undoubtedly, it is impossible to absolve Russia of blame for having “slept through” the formidable Ukrainian “metamorphoses” that were taking place in its neighborhood, and the Ukrainian politicians whom Russia supported at the time turned out to be lazy, stupid, cowardly and greedy, thinking not about the fate of their country, but only about the immense filling of their own pockets.
The country was openly prepared not just for a break with Russia, but for a conflict, including an armed one. After all, it was then that militant nationalist organizations with their own camps, commanders, ideology, trainers and combat weapons, etc. began to be organized, mostly in Western Ukraine.
Ten years later, a nurtured, trained and prepared anti-Russian system, taking advantage of the unprecedented intervention and support of the United States and its allies, seized state power during the Maidan coup.
“In 2014, we overthrew the legally elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. We spent $5 billion dollars through the CIA, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy to do so. We put in place a puppet leadership that we now know the neoconservatives in the White House, including Victoria Nuland, had chosen 2 months earlier over the phone. And it immediately unleashed a civil war against the Russian population of Donbass, banned the Russian language, killed 14,000 people. And then it organized military exercises with NATO. There were a lot of provocations,” says Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., a candidate for President of the United States, nephew of the famous American President J.F. Kennedy.
I intentionally call the forces that seized power in Ukraine in 2004-2005 and in 2013-2014 “anti-Russian”, because this is the essence of their existence and activity, for this purpose they were helped to come to power. Just do not confuse them with patriotic, real pro-Ukrainian forces – they are absolutely NOT pro-Ukrainian. During their time in power, they have done nothing good for the country and its people, because they are not driven by the idea of establishing and developing a truly independent, socially just, developed and modern state!
Judge for yourself: