{"id":65848,"date":"2023-10-05T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65848"},"modified":"2023-10-05T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:03:57","slug":"ukraine-was-always-the-uks-war-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65848","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Was Always the UK\u2019s War First"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine Was Always the UK\u2019s War First<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u201cThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Verbal Kent,\u00a0the Usual Suspects<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For more than a year we\u2019ve been regaled with headline after headline about how the War in Ukraine is a US war. It\u2019s easy to think that, certainly. We\u2019re the ones who started the process here, at least on the face of it.<\/p>\n

Victoria Nuland and her cookies on The Maidan. John McCain and his money and support of Right Sector. Seymour Hersh\u2019s expose on the Nordstream 2 bombing. The seemingly endless billions of materiel from Congress. Even this weekend\u2019s continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown hinged on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The US has the political, economic, and military prowess and rightly should be first considered to be driving this bus towards war. And there are no shortage of commentators in the space helping that narrative along. And none of what I\u2019m implying or about to say absolves these people from their actions which have led us to the current state.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of what should have been a fully avoidable war had someone been in charge on the West\u2019s side that wanted peace.<\/p>\n

But the West didn\u2019t want peace. It froze the conflict in 2014 with the Minsk Agreements because Vladimir Putin believed German Chancellor Angela Merkel was honorable. He traded liberating the Donbass fully for building Nordstream 2 hoping that the pipeline would finally tie Germany and Russia together in a that bond couldn\u2019t be broken.<\/p>\n

This was Putin\u2019s greatest mistake. And he\u2019s still paying for it to this day.<\/p>\n

In 2014 Ukraine was in no shape after the rout at Gorlovka to oppose a Russian-backed Donetsk and Lugansk forces to secure both Oblasts which included the important city of Mariupol…<\/p>\n

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Ukraine Was Always the UK\u2019s War First \u201cThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn\u2019t exist.\u201d \u2014 Verbal Kent,\u00a0the Usual Suspects For more than a year we\u2019ve been regaled with headline after headline about how the War in Ukraine is a US war. It\u2019s easy to think that, certainly. We\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[21273,694,16963,820,821,2080,862],"class_list":["post-65848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-russia","tag-tom-luongo","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65849,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65848\/revisions\/65849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}