Oliver Boyd-Barrett Those of us who began chronicling the current NATO proxy war with Russia over Ukraine from the launch of the Russian SMO in February 2022 started from the positions that: (1) The war was NOT “unprovoked” - this has been very amply chronicled over previous months and I will not elaborate on it now. The most important element of this is the cluster of indications from leading US neocon strategists, as in the 2019 RAND corporation report “Extending Russia,” that the ultimate western goal is the dismemberment of the Russian Federation. There is a good argument that the war was not simply provoked, but that it was necessary for the existential security of the Russian Federation. The first major consequence of and reaction to the US-backed coup and its shaping of the post-coup regime was the defensive move by pro-Russian Crimea to seek the protection of Russia via Russian annexation of a territory that for many hundreds of years has been Russian;
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Oliver Boyd-Barrett Those of us who began chronicling the current NATO proxy war with Russia over Ukraine from the launch of the Russian SMO in February 2022 started from the positions that: (1) The war was NOT “unprovoked” - this has been very amply chronicled over previous months and I will not elaborate on it now. The most important element of this is the cluster of indications from leading US neocon strategists, as in the 2019 RAND corporation report “Extending Russia,” that the ultimate western goal is the dismemberment of the Russian Federation. There is a good argument that the war was not simply provoked, but that it was necessary for the existential security of the Russian Federation. The first major consequence of and reaction to the US-backed coup and its shaping of the post-coup regime was the defensive move by pro-Russian Crimea to seek the protection of Russia via Russian annexation of a territory that for many hundreds of years has been Russian;