Russia is NOT eatingthe chaos of Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts, August 18, 2025
A completely transparent and gross lie has been turned into fact throughout the Western world. The lie is that Russia invaded Ukraine.
I'll give you a real communicative that's easy to verify.
When Washington overturned the Ukrainian government in 2014 and installed a puppet, it based on the flags to push the government into hostility towards Russian populated areas of Ukraine specified as Crimea and Donbas, which were originally part of Russia. Whether the flagmen – supporters of Stepan Bandera – are neo-Nazi, they are definitely hostile to the Russians.
The conflict in Ukraine began in 2014 with street assaults on Russians in Donbasa and government attempts to ban the usage of Russian language and another restrictions imposed on Russian regions. These street assaults rapidly turned into artillery shellings of Donbas cities and business of its territory by Ukrainian militias bearing Nazi symbols. To defend himself, Donbas turned into 2 independent republics – Luganska and Donetsk – and formed paramilitary troops to defend himself.
In 2014, Donetsk and Lugansk in an overwhelming majority voted to reconnect to Russia, as did Crimea, but Putin refused. Instead, it was based on Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine and republics, which Germany and France were to guard. The agreement, which was sponsored by Russia, maintained Donbas within Ukraine but provided for any autonomy, specified as independent police and courts to defend the rights of the Russian population. Putin naively trusted the Minsk Accord, which, as the German Chancellor and the president of France later said, was utilized to deceive Putin while the US built and equipped a large Ukrainian army.
By the end of 2021, this army was ready to invade Donbas, a large part of which was already under Ukrainian occupation, and to forcefully include it back into Ukraine without any autonomy. In the face of abuse and possible slaughter of the Russian population, Putin and his abroad minister Lavrow attempted to get a joint safety agreement with the West between December 2021 and February 2022, which would exclude Ukraine's membership of NATO and advance normalisation of relations. The Biden, NATO and EU government powerfully declined. The conflict broke out after that refusal.
Seeing that this cannot be avoided, Russia gave authoritative designation to the Donbas republics. This allowed Donetsk and Lugansk to ask Russia for help, as Putin did at the last minute – 8 years besides late. Since Russia was invited to Donbas, it did not even invade Donbas, much little Ukraine.
Putin described Russian intervention as a ‘special military operation’ limited to clearing Russian territory from Ukrainian troops. 7 months after the initiation of the intervention, on 30 September 2022, Russia re-entered its territory the Russian areas of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhia and Khersonia. The land struggles were limited to the displacement of Ukrainian troops from territories that one more time became part of Russia.
Ask yourselves: how and why has fact been replaced by a lie? The answer is: those who profit from war supply war propaganda.
Why does it matter? Because propaganda is simply a barrier to knowing and to a peaceful solution to diplomatic conflict that can easy get out of control and turn into a wider war.
Propaganda, according to which the alleged "bad-dictator-criminal-war" Putin begins rebuilding the russian empire, imposes restrictions on Trump and Putin in attempts to make little dangerous East–West relations. Already now, Western "media simplicity" are shouting that Trump is betraying Ukraine, that he is betraying Europe, that he is simply a cop in Putin's hands.
Such and another slogans will be utilized by Zionist neoconservatives and the American military-industrial complex to drive wedges between Trump and his supporters. The Americans have been indoctrinated for 75 years to consider Russia an enemy. This conviction has been institutionalised.
Progress towards peaceful relations requires actual communication and correction of false beliefs. Is this possible erstwhile influential neoconservatives, defenders of U.S. hegemony, defend their interests and the military-security complex strives to keep its power and profits? Trump can anticipate small media help. Naive Russians should not let their hopes come to an agreement with the West. Powerful barriers stand in the way of Russian hopes, and the Russians have no means to remove them. Doubtful Trump would have it.
Ask yourself again: why does PCR present arguments for common sense and truth? Why is this not done by the U.S. abroad Policy Community, the Kremlin, China, Russian media, Western media, the German government, the UK government, the Indian government? Why do Trump supporters not make specified arguments?
I am only 1 voice that can easy be shouted as "agent/easy Putin" by the Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, fresh York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and the remainder of media prostitutes and a multitude of websites sponsored by instigators. The normalization of relations between the West and Russia requires many votes. Where are they?
Note:
Prostitutes and prostitutes from the BBC and the remainder of disinformation media incorrectly state that the restoration of Crimea, Donbas, Zaporozh and Kherson to Russian citizenship is illegal. Restoring Russian citizenship is entirely legal in the light of global principles of self-determination. There are no attempts by Crimea, Donbas, Zaporozh and Kherson to return to Ukraine.
