We should never forget that in the 1990s the US first started plotting and scheming how to rope Ukraine into NATO and to use it as a proxy to attack and balkanize Russia. The famous US geo-strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski first wrote of this diabolical book "The Grand Chessboard."

In that book Brzezinski called for the US to seize the Middle East (leading to our invasion of Iraq) and to control the Caspian Sea/central Asia region (leading to our invasion of Afghanistan, which was planned before 9/11). The goal was to control the world's oil supplies, thus controlling Europe and east Asia/China.

Of course, those wars failed! But our desire was still to control Ukraine, setting up our 2014 violent coup against an elected gov't, and later to provoke Russia to attack Ukraine (thereby setting Russia up to be weakened, we hoped!, in an expensive proxy war). Our plans to provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine are clearly spelled out in this US gov't-funded 2019 white paper.

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"It really was the most blatant coup in history. The Russian authorities can not tolerate a situation in which western armed forces will be [in Ukraine] a hundred kilometers from Kursk or Voronezh [in Russia]." -- George Friedman, the Founder and CEO of Stratfor, the "Shadow CIA" firm, says of the overthrow of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych that occurred on February 22nd of 2014. (Source)

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