The Ukraine War: A Relatively More Honest Perspective

The Biggest U.S.-and-Allied Lies About the War in Ukraine

By Eric Zuesse
The Duran

March 22, 2024

#1 lie: If Russia takes Ukraine, we’ll be next.

There is zero evidence for this lie, and it is a lie that is even more outlandish than the lie that if Vietnam falls to the communists, that will be just the first “domino” and all the others will fall and the Soviet Union and/or communist China will take over the world.

Russia actually had no motivation to invade Ukraine until the U.S. carried out a coup, which overthrew and replaced Ukraine’s neutralist Government and installed a rabidly anti-Russian one in 2014. NATO nations unanimously refused to negotiate with Russia regarding Russia’s longstanding national-security red line against Ukraine — the nation with the nearest border to The Kremlin (Russia’s central command) a mere 317 miles away — ever becoming added to America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO. On 7 January 2022 NATO said no to that request by Russia. They wouldn’t even negotiate about it. They were determined to violate that red line of Russia. The only way left to Russia to carry out its red line in this matter that is so essential to Russia’s national security, was to take Ukraine before Ukraine would be taken into NATO and become set up with a U.S. nuclear missile.Laurence M. VanceBuy New $5.95(as of 10:44 UTC – Details)

Similarly, but in the opposite direction, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis had U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy refusing to allow the Soviet Union to be permitted by Cuba and to install Soviet missiles that could reach America’s central command in the White House within 30 minutes, but the big difference with Ukraine in that situation — the situation that Cuba was then in — is that Khrushchev was willing to, and did, negotiate with Kennedy about the matter so as to prevent a nuclear war. The other big difference, in this case, is that The Kremlin is only 5 minutes of missile-flying-time away from Ukraine, not 30 minutes, and that the NATO nations refused to negotiate with Russia at all.

After that 7 January 2022 rejection by NATO — refusal even to negotiate about the matter — Russia had a national-security necessity to take action, and nothing less than an invasion of Ukraine could be that required action, It was forced by NATO, upon Russia. The imperialistic aggressive power here is America (the virtual owner of the NATO alliance), NOT Russia. America demands the right to expand its empire to within 5 minutes of Russia’s central command; Russia isn’t threatening to expand its border to within 5 minutes of America’s central command. The U.S. and its colonies blatantly lie about which side is the aggressor against the other side. The very idea that Russia had any interest in invading any of the NATO countries — or even in invading Ukraine prior to America’s February 2014 coup there turned Ukraine rabidly against Russia — is a vicious and hateful lie, which has its origin in Washington DC and is parroted throughout its empire.

#2 lie: The war in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022.

We are actually now in year ten of this war. The war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said. It was started in February 2014 by a U.S. coup which replaced the democratically elected and neutralist President with a U.S. selected and rabidly anti-Russian leader, who immediately imposed an ethnic-cleansing program to get rid of the residents in the regions that had voted overwhelmingly for the overthrown President.

U.S. Regime Now Applies Maximum Brutality to the Ukrainian People

Russia responded militarily on 24 February 2022 in order to prevent Ukraine from allowing the U.S. to place a missile there a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile-flying-time away from The Kremlin and thus too brief for Russia to respond before its central command would already be beheaded by America’s nuclear strike. (As I headlined on 28 October 2022, “NATO Wants To Place Nuclear Missiles On Finland’s Russian Border — Finland Says Yes”. The U.S. had demanded this, especially because it will place American nuclear missiles far nearer to The Kremlin than at present, only 507 miles away — not as close as Ukraine, but the closest yet.)

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From LRC, here.

Remember How So Many Rabbanim Parroted Official Corona Lies?

Some excerpts from Steve Hall’s Substack:

What if you wanted to make  $$ Billions of dollars, in a hurry?  Guaranteed and without risk?

We have an excellent recent example.  Here is the blueprint that they used:

Patent a product that will sell worldwide in the billions of dollars, and in a very short time.  Make sure the government regulators are on your side by capturing the agency and by giving them a share of the profits via patents and royalties.  Have the government guarantee your sales with purchase contracts.  And, the cherry on top, make sure that the government protects you from all liability, in case of insufficient testing, faulty products or damages to the consumer.

Turns out that all they needed for this round was a new coronavirus (in the same family as the common cold and the seasonal flu).  But a virus intentionally made more contagious in government funded bio-warfare laboratories.  With a public primed to panic when faced with a pandemic.  And with governments around the world having already pre-planned their authoritarian responses.

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The FDA has now approved the ivermectin treatment that they banned.  They have admitted that masks don’t work and that six feet apart was a random number.  The long term economic damage from lockdowns – and deciding which workers were not “essential” – is now unfolding.  The adverse reactions, including deaths, from taking the experimental shot can no longer be ignored.  In short, the extensive damages from the authoritarian responses to the new flu virus are apparent, for anyone who will listen.

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They showed us the death counts.  But they did not differentiate between people who died WITH Covid (based on the unreliable PCR tests or generic “symptoms”) and those who died FROM Covid.  They even gave financial incentives if the doctors listed Covid as the cause of death, even when they were suffering from other fatal conditions or already dying.

They knew very early on that the vast majority of deaths from Covid were among the very old, as well as those with co-morbidities like heart disease and obesity.  For most people, the odds of hospitalization or dying from Covid were very, very tiny, with survival rates well over 99%.  And for children and younger healthy adults, the risk was just about zero.

We now know that the increase in the overall death rate during Covid – pre-vaccine – was small, and much of that due to the lives of the very elderly being shortened a few months or years (compounded by not receiving early treatment and by misuse of ventilators), or to not receiving treatment for other diseases, or for drug overdoses and suicides as a result of the lockdowns.

However, the increases in the death rate after the “vaccine” was mandated is another story; it is excessive.

At the same time that they were scaring everyone with infection rates and death rates, they banned any and all treatments.  Unlike any other disease, for two years there were no approved medicines.  Incredibly, we were told that we had to stay home and just live with it until we got so sick that we had to be hospitalized, which was obviously too late for many people.  Long-proven, truly safe and effective treatments were not only discouraged but also banned.  Fauci hypocritically told us that those medications – even though proved safe and effective and used worldwide for decades -had not undergone proper double-blind studies for this specific virus – yet neither had his new “vaccine.”

So they told us that we had to wait for the Trump miracle, coming at “warp speed.”  They disguised the fact that it was not a vaccine at all under the traditional definition; rather it was a new, experimental mRNA technology, and all of the normal testing procedures for vaccines were abandoned.

The incessantly repeated “95% effective” blather was the result of numbers games based on manipulated limited data.  The studies were cut short and did not address the risks and adverse reactions.  They had no idea of what long term problems their experiment might cause.  And as the number and severity of negative reactions and deaths from the jab have increased, they continue to hide, ignore and distort that data.

Ironically, Ivermectin is now approved.  Yet the doctors who were using it to successfully treat patients were censored, attacked and even lost their licenses.  Ivermectin, Vitamin D, and chloroquine, all cheap, all effective, could have saved literally hundreds of thousands of lives, based on the actual experiences in countries round the world.  The problem was that if those were approved for Covid treatment, then Pharma would be not be able to get the “emergency use authorization” for their experimental injection.

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NOTE: I don’t endorse every claim made above. For example, regarding Ivermectin’s supposed FDA approval, see here.

Most Non-Techeiles Scholars: Even if They Were Right They Would STILL Be Wrong!

I’ll explain what I mean.

Imagine you ask a rabbi\Ben Torah\Yeshiva man\Avreich\etc. why we can’t light candles on Shabbos, and he said “Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky didn’t ignite fire on Shabbos, Rabbi Steinman never did, Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach was known never to light fire on Shabbos. We follow our Greats and don’t light candles on Shabbos either!”

Again, say you ask a rabbi\Ben Torah\Yeshiva man\Avreich\etc. why do we blow the shofar or listen to it on Rosh Hashana, and he told you “Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky definitely did so, Rabbi Steinman too (unless Rosh Hashana came out on Shabbos), Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach even gave a few shiurim (I heard personally) about blowing shofar. We always follow our Greats and therefore do likewise!”

Or you ask a rabbi\Ben Torah\Yeshiva man\Avreich\etc. why he got married, and he told you “I am simply following the unbroken chain of Mesorah from Har Sinai (and before, but never mind)! My father got married, my grandfather got married. My Admor, too, was once married, and so were all the Rebbes who directly preceded him in the holy dynasty of my Chassidus! That’s why I got married – kedas Moshe Veyisrael.”

Do you sense something “off” about this type of answer? I do.

Why not quote the actual source: Torah, Chazal? Surely a Jew with any degree of knowledge should be able to do better than “the Gedolim something something”!

So, even if most non-Techeiles Jews were (for the sake of argument) correct about not wearing Techeiles in Tzitzis for a legitimate reason, the arguments they give are truly an embarrassment. Doesn’t this area of Torah deserve their serious attention, no less than all others? It’s one thing if they have an actual argument they believe in, right or wrong. But davka for a rabbi\Ben Torah\Yeshiva man\Avreich\etc. to resort to the last defense of the “Am Haaretz-see, Am Haaretz-do” is disturbing.