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{{See also|Background of the Russia-Ukraine war|Maidan coup|Donbas war}}

{{See also|Background of the Russia-Ukraine war|Maidan coup|Donbas war}}

[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|290px|thumb|[[FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives]].<ref>[https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bidens-corruption-led-to-ukraines-destruction-fmr-kiev-diplomat/ Biden corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction] Interview with [[Andrii Telizhenko]]. Aaron Maté, ''The Grayzone'', July 13, 2023.</ref>]]

[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.jpg|right|290px|thumb|[[FBI summary of confidential human source's meeting with Burisma executives]].<ref>[https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bidens-corruption-led-to-ukraines-destruction-fmr-kiev-diplomat/ Biden corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction] Interview with [[Andrii Telizhenko]]. Aaron Maté, ''The Grayzone'', July 13, 2023.</ref>]]

The United States, together with the German secret service BND,<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm Organization Gehlen] fas.org</ref> had long-standing ties with Nazi groups in west-Ukraine which had previously cooperated with [[Nazi Germany]] and had been attached to the German Nazi-Wehrmacht.<ref>''[https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Hitler's Shadow, Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War]'', Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda, Published by the National Archives. Ch. 5, ''Collaborators: Allied Intelligence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists'', pp. 73-97.</ref> The [[CIA]] reactivated these groups and instigated a violent [[color-revolution]] in [[Kiev]].<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/who-can-guarantee-ukraines-security.html Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?] July 25, 2023. moonofalabama.org</ref> The United States resumed providing direct military aid to Ukraine's nationalist forces and the newly created puppet regime in 2014.  Western states began to train Ukraine’s armed forces and allow their participation in military exercises. In December 2016, [[Sen. Lindsey Graham]] declared 2017 to be "the year of offense", which was delayed by the [[Russiagate]] scandal, the [[Mueller investigation]], and [[Trump impeachment 1.0]].  

The United States, together with the German secret service BND,<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/gehlen.htm Organization Gehlen] fas.org</ref> had long-standing ties with Nazi groups in [[Western Ukraine]] which had previously cooperated with [[Nazi Germany]] and had been attached to the German Nazi-Wehrmacht.<ref>''[https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Hitler's Shadow, Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War]'', Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda, Published by the National Archives. Ch. 5, ''Collaborators: Allied Intelligence and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists'', pp. 73-97.</ref> The [[CIA]] reactivated these groups and instigated a violent [[color-revolution]] in [[Kiev]].<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/who-can-guarantee-ukraines-security.html Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?] July 25, 2023. moonofalabama.org</ref> The United States resumed providing direct military aid to Ukraine's nationalist forces and the newly created puppet regime in 2014.  Western states began to train Ukraine’s armed forces and allow their participation in military exercises. In December 2016, [[Sen. Lindsey Graham]] declared 2017 to be "the year of offense", which was delayed by the [[Russiagate]] scandal, the [[Mueller investigation]], and [[Trump impeachment 1.0]].  

A 2019 Rand Corporation paper entitled ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground'' knowingly imperiled Ukraine as a nation and its people, to extend Russia in the hopes of precipitating a sociopolitical or economic collapse, or both, with the full understanding Ukraine itself would lose any such conflict. The policy of militarizing Ukraine to provoke a Russian intervention was anticipated, according to the report, "to produce disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows as well as a disadvantageous peace."<ref>Dobbins, James, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, and Brent Williams, ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.'' Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html. [p. 100]</ref>

A 2019 Rand Corporation paper entitled ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground'' knowingly imperiled Ukraine as a nation and its people, to extend Russia in the hopes of precipitating a sociopolitical or economic collapse, or both, with the full understanding Ukraine itself would lose any such conflict. The policy of militarizing Ukraine to provoke a Russian intervention was anticipated, according to the report, "to produce disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows as well as a disadvantageous peace."<ref>Dobbins, James, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, and Brent Williams, ''Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.'' Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html. [p. 100]</ref>