Why the War in Ukraine is a War of Western, not Russian, Imperialism

The Biden administration has been waging a disinformation campaign against US citizens and the world designed to perpetuate the war in Ukraine indefinitely. First, they claimed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked when in fact there never has been a war in modern history which has been more provoked than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin spent fifteen years trying to resolve the Ukraine in NATO crisis, which was created by President George W. Bush and continued by his successors, diplomatically. Putin offered two mutual security agreements in 2009 and 2021 and signed the Minsk I agreement in 2014 and in Minsk II agreement in 2015 to try to resolve the crisis created by the Biden authorized, CIA-funded overthrow of Ukrainian President Yanukovych peacefully. Tragically, for Ukraine, both of his mutual security agreements with the US and NATO were rejected and Ukraine refused to implement either of the Minsk agreements which had been guaranteed by France and Germany.

A map showing NATO’s imperialist expansion since the end of the Cold War. With the addition of Finland and Sweden, NATO’s territory has increased by 83 percent in the last quarter century, an area over eighteen times larger than the territory Russia has annexed in Ukraine. A quick look at this map makes it easy to understand why Russia felt forced to react militarily to Ukraine becoming a de facto NATO member in November 2021 after 15 years of Russian diplomatic efforts to resolve the NATO in Ukraine crisis peacefully had failed.

The administration has deliberately misled the American people since the war began in claiming Putin doesn’t want peace when in fact Russia has submitted an endless stream of almost entirely reasonable peace offers since the day after the invasion began. Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Russia’s March 2022 to be reasonable and gave Russia a counteroffer which both sides accepted without revision, which has come to be known as the Istanbul Agreement. Zelensky had a summit meeting scheduled with Putin on April 9^th to sign the peace agreement ending the war, under which Russia committed to withdraw its troops from all eight Ukrainian oblasts which it had invaded and occupied after February 24, 2022. Biden hurriedly dispatched UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Kyiv to derail the peace summit and veto the peace settlement condemning 300,000 more Ukrainians to die in an unwinnable war thus far. While Putin has offered peace negotiations ever since, Biden and Zelensky have refused, banning all peace negotiations, and preventing all of Putin’s attempts to end the war, end the death and destruction and restore peace and stability to Europe. Putin’s June 14^th peace offer, calling for immediate peace negotiations if Ukraine starts withdrawing its military forces from the four Russian annexed former Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson was the first time he demanded even one square inch of additional Ukrainian territory since the invasion. It was also the first time he had issued any preconditions for peace negotiations since the war began.