| | | casualties2 =94,000 KIA est 2/22/25<br><ref>https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>Mediazona Sept 8, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>40,000 as of August 22, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng</ref><ref>18,480 KIA. 11970 deaths from the Russian Federation from February 24, 2022, to December 31, 2022, not counting the Wagner group, LPR and DNR. https://youtu.be/EJ8i6Jix5uw?t=567</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/B4M581RgpKc</ref><ref>does not include DNR, LPR, and Wagner Group which have borne the brunt of the fighting.</ref><br>200,00 injured est;<br> 323 POWs<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-open-thread-2023-31.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b MoA], 04-02-23</ref>}} | | | casualties2 =94,000 KIA est 2/22/25<br><ref>https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>Mediazona Sept 8, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng</ref><ref>40,000 as of August 22, 2023. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng</ref><ref>18,480 KIA. 11970 deaths from the Russian Federation from February 24, 2022, to December 31, 2022, not counting the Wagner group, LPR and DNR. https://youtu.be/EJ8i6Jix5uw?t=567</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/B4M581RgpKc</ref><ref>does not include DNR, LPR, and Wagner Group which have borne the brunt of the fighting.</ref><br>200,00 injured est;<br> 323 POWs<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/ukraine-open-thread-2023-31.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02b68524e2a3200b MoA], 04-02-23</ref>}} |
| | The '''NATO war in Ukraine''', sometimes known as the '''Russia–Ukraine civil conflict''' is a [[proxy war]] started by the [[United States]] in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the [[democracy|democratically]] elected government of [[Ukraine]]<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/09/the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/</ref> in collaboration with [[neo-Nazi]] traitors to the Ukrainian nation.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref> The newly installed [[Maidan puppet regime]] immediately began a campaign of unprovoked aggression against the civilians of [[Donbas]]. | | The '''NATO war in Ukraine''', sometimes known as the '''Russia–Ukraine civil conflict''' is a [[proxy war]] started by the [[United States]] in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the [[democracy|democratically]] elected government of [[Ukraine]]<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/09/the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine/</ref> in collaboration with [[neo-Nazi]] traitors to the Ukrainian nation.<ref>https://youtu.be/5SBo0akeDMY</ref> The newly installed [[Maidan puppet regime]] immediately began a campaign of unprovoked aggression against the civilians of [[Donbas]]. |
| | + | Th Russian [[special military operation]] which commenced on February 24, 2022 was provoked by the [[United States]] promise to the [[Kyiv regime]] to extend the borders of [[NATO]] to within 500 kilometers and four minutes flight time of a [[nuclear arm]]ed missile to [[Moscow]], the capital of the [[Russian Federation]], posing an existential [[national security]] threat to the nation and removing [[Ukraine]]'s decades long neutrality, according to Ambassador [[George Kennan]], Ambassador [[Jack Matlock]], Senator [[Joe Biden]], Senator [[Bill Bradley]], Senator [[Sam Nunn]], Senator [[Gary Hart]], Senator [[Gordon Humphrey]], [[Secretary of State]] [[Henry Kissinger]], [[Defense Secretary]] [[Robert McNamara]], |
| | + | [[Defense Secretary]] [[William Perry]], [[Defense Secretary]] [[Robert Gates]], [[CIA]] Director [[William Burns]], [[CIA]] Director [[Stansfield Turner]], Professor Edward Herman, Professor [[Noam Chomsky]], Professor [[John Mearsheimer]], Prime Minister Paul Keating and [[Prime Minister]] [[Malcolm Fraser]],<ref>https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1894833586387501070</ref> |
| | [[Groupthink]] among Western NATO leaders and their populations led to the false belief that [[Fourth generation warfare]] could be won by [[propaganda]] and [[misinformation]] alone without an industrial base. As the ''[[Washington Post]]'' attempted to explain, "[[the West]] tricked itself into thinking that sloganeering could forge a consensus to back [[Kyiv]] — 'for as long as it takes,' as President Biden put it — without explaining that sacrifice, setbacks and staggering sums of money would inevitably be needed..."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/orban-ukraine-europe-threat-west-hungary/</ref> | | [[Groupthink]] among Western NATO leaders and their populations led to the false belief that [[Fourth generation warfare]] could be won by [[propaganda]] and [[misinformation]] alone without an industrial base. As the ''[[Washington Post]]'' attempted to explain, "[[the West]] tricked itself into thinking that sloganeering could forge a consensus to back [[Kyiv]] — 'for as long as it takes,' as President Biden put it — without explaining that sacrifice, setbacks and staggering sums of money would inevitably be needed..."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/orban-ukraine-europe-threat-west-hungary/</ref> |