Did the media tell us this?

 

How would those in the west know about any of this?  The corporate run media does not tell them these things. Along with this excellent video I add more voices below that I found on social media. At least some folks out there have figured out what is really going on and haven't swallowed the BS pill by the ruling western warmongers.

 

• Eric Arnow: Russia geographically is in almost the same position it was in in 1942, occupied and surrounded by hostile states, its only non occupied state being Belarus. Though it was not for Nato's lack of trying. Seeing the inevitability of an attack on itself through the well known path through Ukraine, Russia basically has tried to preempt that, and send a warning to Nato. It looks like Nato is saying, "We planned to attack you later, but we are happy to attack sooner, too". The West has been at war with Russia since at least the Crimean War.  Now it has shown its cards.

• John Walsh: Body counts etc. Human interest stories of refugees etc. We saw nothing like that in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya. The difference is pathetic. 

• S. Brian Willson: The anti-war folks and the left are mostly supporting the illegitimate and Nazi infested coup government of Ukraine. I am in solidarity with your perspective, and again am reminded how little US Americans, including even VFP, know so little about history and context.

• Francis Lawrence Sr.: Pointing out historic truths will get you pilloried by a lot of progressives and so-called leftists ( I say so-called because real leftists actually study history!). So many have drunk the koolade, or are completely MIA on arguably the most important event of the 21st century (in that there is a real risk of nuclear conflagration.) I absolutely do not support the invasion of Ukraine but I also recognize that Biden knew full well this was going to happen unless he gave a guarantee that Ukraine would never be accepted into NATO - he refused "on principle." Biden could have so easily have averted the war - I trust history will judge him accordingly.

• Андрей Кочетов: Dear comrade, good morning. I'm in Gorlovka (Donbass) and we wake up today by Ukranian artillery. They still hate all our people. Yesterday, Zelensky signed an appeal to the EU to postpone the adoption in the EU. We are very concerned about this fact. It seems that there is already an agreement and it will be accepted in the EU, and even more so in NATO. This can be done on purpose so that the whole of Europe will fall on Russia. And it's already the third world War. Comrade, tell me what can be done in such a situation? Is it possible to raise protests in the United States against such a development of cheating? Maybe it will help to change the situation somehow.

• John Schuchardt: On the Devil's Chessboard we are in a world threatening escalation of a U.S. directed NATO war against Russia, begun in earnest in 2013. Ukraine is the pawn and sacrificial victim (we all may be), as the U.S. rejects giving security guarantees and is determined to add Ukraine with offensive missiles to the other 13 new nations it has seduced into NATO encircling Russia, each one breaking repeatedly the promise "to not move one inch East." The U.S. opened the jaws of Hell with the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Repentance and the abolition of war continue to be our only hope.  I honor all in Veterans for Peace and our devoted years giving witness to our only hope.

• Winston: I've noted there's some skepticism over whether fascists have been involved in Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan episode in a definitive way.  I know it makes for discomfort because it introduces dissonance into the current emotional narrative which views the situation as an heroic struggle against the Evil Russian Bear.

• Excerpt from the Cuban government February 26, 2022 Statement on the Conflict in Ukraine: The American determination to continue the progressive expansion of NATO towards the borders of the Russian Federation has led to a scenario, with implications of unpredictable scope, that could be avoided. The military movements carried out by the United States and NATO in recent months... amount to a progressive military encirclement.... Cuba is a country that defends International Law and is committed to the Charter of the United Nations, which will always defend peace and oppose the use or threat of force against any State.... History will hold the US government accountable for the consequences of an increasingly offensive military doctrine outside NATO's borders, which threatens international peace, security and stability....

• Gearóid Ó Murchú: My only surprise - shock actually- is that people who I assumed would see this for what it is DON’T! The depth of political consciousness is only skin deep for many on the left.