UnCommon Core: The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.
The end of the Cold war brought peace to Europe and armies began to demobilize. The American empire exploited this trust and ignored promises made to the Russians to expand NATO and absorb former Warsaw Pact nations and even former Soviet Republics. Efforts then focused on conquering the large former Soviet Republic of Ukraine. The Russians had found Ukraine unproductive, corrupt, and troublesome so granted it independence in 1991. The American empire plotted to absorb Ukraine into NATO and sent military units to Ukraine to bolster the Ukrainian army with plans for building American military bases. An American instigated coup in Ukraine led to bloody fighting and major economic disruptions.
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"Did the U.S. Carry Out a Ukrainian Coup?"; The Real News; March 3, 2014; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p84Kz...
Related Tale: “The NATO Conquest of Eastern Europe”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lam...
Related Tale: “The 2003 Conquest of the Republic of Georgia”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-xL...
“Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt phone call”; Ukraine on Fire;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGq_X...
“McCain’s Ukraine Rapid Eye Blinking Video”; Professor Michel Chossudovsky; Global Research TV; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHqEx...
“The Independent Ukraine's Painful Journey Through the Five Stages of Grief”; explains Ukraine’s current status; The Saker; Unz.com; https://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-indepe...
"The CIA - 70 Years in Ukraine"; Doug Valentine; https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
The US Army’s huge effort to secure Ukraine can be seen in the 349 articles posted at its website just over the past five years: https://search.usa.gov/search/news?af...
The United States provided Ukraine with $1.5 billion in military aid since 2014, to include $250 million in 2019. The purpose of these weapons is to kill Russians. https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Rele...
Originial video https://youtu.be/nW7lNABfDVk
This full length GRTV documentary looks at the fictitious land of Nulandistan that has been constructed out of Ukraine.The GRTV documentary deconstructs Nulandistan and the propaganda of the Obama Administration, the US Department of States, US officials, and their allies about the crisis in Ukraine and takes a look at their growing frustration towards the Russian media, particularly RT, for challenging their account of the events on the ground in what they have declared is an intensifying information war.
The full length documentary starts by looking at the self-benefiting description of the EuroMaidan protests that US officials have used and how it has grossly diverged from reality. Then the Odessa Massacre is deconstructed for audiences.
The documentary then looks at the situation in East Ukraine, including the violence and referenda. The events in East Ukraine are then contrasted to the positions of US officials and Russia.
This documentary shows how the reality of events in Ukraine has been been misappropriated and propagandized to support US foreign policy and to justify tensions against Russia.
many domestic and foreign interests coincided to create the Banderite coup d'état in Ukraine. Andrey Fursov, historian and sociologist, explains who needed what out of Ukraine and how the events of 2014 had been in the making for years. Also how Russia has been the target of the Western elite for 200 years, the disastrous Gorbachev & Yeltsin period, when Russia's assets were given away, and the Rubicon that has been crossed by Russia's defense of Syria and Crimea, which begins a new era of adversarial relations between the West and Russia.
2nd hour: Questions from the audience (67 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9m6...
Both hours in one video: Lecture + Questions (2hr 18min), with some typos corrected in the 1st hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZxfW...
Original from Poznavatelnoe.tv : Поле боя -- Украина
http://poznavatelnoe.tv/fursov_pole_b...
http://andreyfursov.ru
The re-construction of post-war Western Europe in the 1950s was achieved under the 'Marshall Plan', led by the U.S. and financed by the Bretton Woods monetary system, under which Western Europe has continued to enjoy a high standard of living.
Now, in the 2020s, with Bretton Woods coming to an end, the era of cheap money is over and Europe will quickly return to its post-war state – with associated poverty.
Dmitry Drobnitsky, political analyst and US-watcher, explains the logic and implications.
English subtitles.
Unsubtitled original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60709... (№23- План Маршалла наоборот - Дмитрий Дробницкий)
Dmitry Drobnitsky –
Channel (in Russian): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzK... (@ДмитрийДробницкий)
Associated Press: Italian paper mills ground to a halt
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukr...
U.S. Energy Information Administration – Russia's energy exports.
https://www.eia.gov/international/con...
original video here https://youtu.be/qEQl2qSb_BM