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You’re still pretending this war started in February 2022, despite knowing better. Previously: Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences. The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties? Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia. Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide Previously: NATO expansion: George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine   NATO in general: The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world” Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It