Chief among the stated reasons the United States has decided to arbitrate the future of Ukraine for its citizens, is the grave danger Russia allegedly poses not only to Kiev, but to Europe and the rest of the world. This despite the fact that it was the US which facilitated violent protests that eventually overthrew the elected government of Ukraine in 2013-2014 in the first place, leading directly to the war now unfolding in the heart of Eastern Europe.
It was not long ago that another ambitious power cited Russia as a threat and invoked "collective defense" to justify what would become a contest between nations leaving tens of millions dead and entire countries in ruins. Nazi Germany's leader,
Adolf Hitler would claim regarding his decision to invade Russia that:
The purpose of this front is no longer the protection of the individual nations, but rather the safety of Europe, and therefore the salvation of everyone.
I have therefore decided today once again to put the fate of Germany and the future of the German Reich and our people in the hands of our soldiers.
Sounding eerily familiar are US and NATO justifications for their continued expansion east and escalations made against Russia today. And also like that other ambitious power, the United States has waged wars all across the planet, far from Russia's borders and with little to do with Russia's interests beyond its borders, long before it turned its sights on Moscow.
Since World War II, the United States has invaded, bombed, and/or occupied the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Some of these nations have been attacked by the US more than once. In many more countries the US has facilitated the violent overthrow of various governments, particularly in South America and the Middle East, first through the use of its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then through more veiled organizations
like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It has troops stationed in over a hundred nations around the world, occupying hundreds of military installations.
Comment: What's left out of this article is that the NATO/U.S. agenda in Ukraine could not have been implemented without the support of various neo-Nazi parties there, ie. Right Sector, Svoboda - that had a direct and immediate part in bringing about the events of the Maidan coup. This is one of several BIG lies - by omission in Western media organs - that just doesn't get figured into the calculus of the average person, who has little to no idea of what's actually going on there. And yet it is the West that is quite often comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler when it is the U.S. that is propping up and supporting Nazis in Ukraine. You can't make this shit up.
In a speech given in 1941 (video below), where Hitler explains his reasons for invading the Soviet Union/Russia he calmly uses rationalizations, justifications and fabricated narratives to account for Germany's military aggression. As one commentator to the video correctly noted:
Hitler had already outlined his policy of Lebensraum as far back as 1933 to his military so the idea that he attacked Russia to prevent them attacking Germany is just a bald faced lie. He planned expansion in the East and in fact had developed and spoken about the policy in the early twenties.
Keep this clearly in mind when you listen to or, better yet,
read the following speech (if you want to avoid having to hear Hitler's abhorrent voice). Also keep in mind that NATO's geo-strategic creep towards Russia has been occurring for more than
twenty years - and years
after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. In sum, the idea of 'Russian aggression' is as much a construct of lies now as it was then.
Comment: Some live updates from RT: