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On this video of Jackson-Hinkle, there's a very large comment that invokes a very large historical response.

People insist that Russia invoked this war in Ukraine without a lot of evidence. But this comment really puts that to the test. All will be quoted, links will be by me:

Russia took every conceivable step to avoid war, but was left with no choice. Ukraine made a number of fatal mistakes and got a war.

• [B]rought to power the nationalists / Nazis as a result of the coup d'état in 2014 with the support of the United States. The cost was announced by Victoria Nuland - "We invested $ 5 billion in the revolution on the Maidan." John McCain on the same stage with the Ukrainian Nazis in front of the crowd in Kyiv 2014 and so on. The attitude of Russians towards the Nazis is special. It is not the same as in the USA or in Europe. 27 million dead Soviet citizens (of which only 8 million were military losses). Each family lost many relatives, each Russian family. Russians have a genetic hatred for Nazism. The US made a big mistake by betting on the cultivation of Nazism heavily mixed with Ukrainian nationalism in Ukraine as a cheap way to fight Russia. They are useful idiots (such is their ideological motivation, they are ready to fight Russia for free.). But it was a guaranteed way to drag Russia into a military conflict. Why not? - thought in the United States and the tangible development of Nazism in Ukraine began rapidly 25 years ago, first painted as patroitism, after 27 years it grew into a violent Ukrainization of everyone. Although 2014 is the climax. The transformation of Ukraine into a Nazi state began back in 1991 after leaving the USSR along the chain - patriotism smoothly flowing into nationalism and then mixed with the ideology of Ukrainians in Western Ukraine on the ideas of Ukrainian nationalists Dontsov and Bandera - as a result, we get Ukrainian Nazism with the veneration of Hitler and his Ukrainian henchmen. The Ukrainian authorities named many streets after them and declared them heroes of Ukraine.

• [P]rohibition of the Russian language (38% of the population consider it their native language, and 65% of Ukrainians speak it in everyday life)

• Forced Ukrainization of the inhabitants. The inhabitants of Ukraine are not homogeneous, and political elections over the past 30 years show that exactly half of Ukrainians gravitate towards Russia. As a result of the coup d'etat, people came to power with the ideology of Western Ukraine, which for 700 years was under the yoke of Poland and was brought up by the Poles in a fierce hatred of everything Russian.

• Ukraine, when leaving the USSR in 1991, did not return Russian highly industrial lands to Russia, which it used while being part of the USSR. This is a huge area. Before joining the USSR in 1922, Ukraine was three small, impoverished, exclusively agrarian regions. These three regions make up only 1/3 of modern Ukraine, the rest 2/3 is the land of the Russian empire. With what she came to the USSR, she must leave with that. But the Russians looked at it loyally (historically a single people, and all that, the strongest kindred mixture of people over the centuries of living together in a single country, and so on) until a threat to Russia began to emanate from this territory.

• The transformation of Ukraine into a kind of Anti-Russia, as the meaning of the existence of Ukraine as a result of the active cooperation of the Ukrainian elites with Western military circles. Hence the next point.

• the actual development of the Ukrainian territory by NATO forces without the formal entry of Ukraine into NATO. Here, let me give you a little historical background: Ukraine left the USSR in 1991. And already on March 10, 1992, Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Already in 1994, she was the first to join the Partnership for Peace program, which made it possible for NATO servicemen to participate in regular joint exercises on the territory of Ukraine since 1995. The military will not let me lie - what do any exercises mean? This is preparation for war. And with whom can NATO fight? For some people who began to delve into the situation a month ago, many things are not clear, but those who have followed politics for the past 40 years are well aware of where the origins come from. This is the Ukrainian party elite of the 80s and the connivance of Yeltsin (a very mediocre and short-sighted politician) to the nationalism of Western Ukraine. Russia would be quite satisfied with a neutral Ukraine (don’t even need to be loyal, just neutral). Russia economically powerfully supported the Ukrainian economy with energy benefits and direct gifts in the amount of 470 billion non-refundable dollars for all these 30 years. Naively believing that the economy is the best guarantee of friendly relations.

• The beginning of the creation of their own nuclear weapons under President Poroshenko. President Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference in February 2022 confirmed this intention to revise Ukraine's nuclear-free status. He was applauded by all the representatives of the collective West, and at the same moment, the ultimate goal and the role of Ukraine in it became clear to Russia.

• A huge number of secret bio-laboratories of the Pentagon (26) on the territory of Ukraine to create bio-weapons of selective action in relation to the Slavic race. It's right at the Russian borders.

• 8 years of shelling by Ukrainian troops of territories that did not recognize the Nazi coup d'état in 2014 with numerous casualties among civilians (14,000 people died). Shelling was carried out mainly on non-military infrastructure facilities, villages and cities in the hope of making life there unbearable and encouraging the local population to leave this territory. Their argument (words from a video of Ukrainian soldier in a trench) –“Is that there are no pro-Ukrainian residents there, pro-Ukrainian people have already left for Ukraine, they are separatists” (means - you can kill them. It doesn't matter that these are civilians).

All these steps, fatal for Ukraine, were made under the influence of Western countries and led to war. Russia made all diplomatic overtures to prevent such a development of events. Minsk agreements (These are concrete steps to resolve the conflict between the rebellious regions and the new Nazi authorities. These steps are enshrined in UN resolution of February 17, 2015 No. S / RES / 2202 (2015) - adopted for mandatory execution)- ignored by Ukraine. In December 2021, Russia sent Requests to NATO and the USA to ensure security for Russia - refusal from NATO and refusal from the USA.

The question is closed. Russia acted not just logically, but super logically - it began the process of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine in order to stop all threats. I think the United States would not even bother to do so in such a situation and carried out such a thing even if there was a hint of a threat. I draw this conclusion on the basis of all the pretexts for starting all military operations on the part of the United States over the past 60 years (and if you dig deeper, you can unearth more than one case of far-fetched US military intervention in military conflicts around the world). Everyone remembers about 836 (!!!!!) US military bases around the world? 836, Carl!!!!!

And already in mid-April 2022, in his interview with the BBC, Zelensky said that the country had begun preparing for a clash with Russia since December 2021. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed his (?) plans. According to him, Kyiv was preparing for clashes with Russia long before Moscow announced the start of a special operation. Judging by the state of the Ukrainian army and Zelensky’s lack of independence, plans to start a war with Russia came from abroad. "We started this war even earlier," the head of the Ukrainian state said, referring to the beginning of the special operation of the Russian Federation.

Thus, he indirectly admits his guilt in inciting the conflict with Russia. Zelensky called pumping Ukraine with Western weapons part of the preparations for the upcoming conflict. At the same time, in addition to public agreements with the United States and NATO, Kyiv also conducted closed negotiations with them regarding military assistance. "We non-publicly agreed on certain supplies," the President of Ukraine admits in the same interview. This interview of the President of Ukraine, given by the BBC, interested Russian investigators. Zelensky inadvertently blabbed about what he should have kept quiet about. The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to check the words of Zelensky. He believes that the statements of the Ukrainian leader may fall under the article on planning and preparing an aggressive war. Thus, we can conclude that Zelesky's curators are striving to create such conditions in Ukraine that are guaranteed to draw Russia into a military conflict. And the brother will begin to kill the brother (historically, this is one people). This is ideal in the eyes of the United States. With his statement, he only confirmed what Russian politicians and experts have always said: NATO was preparing Ukraine for war with Russia. That is, in fact, Zelensky framed his curators.

Further more interesting. In April 2022, the US Congress approved the supply of weapons to Ukraine through Lend Lease, but this proposal was submitted for consideration (attention here!) January 19, 2022 - almost a month before the start of Russia's special military operation. After all, then no one could predict the development of events.That is, the West was very interested in drawing Russia into the conflict, and he was preparing for this. Everything had already been calculated and the West was sure that Russia would intervene in response to military operations against the Donbass. Ukraine had to start. But Russia preempted it by only a few days (judging from the documents that Russia got from the Ukrainian headquarters). Thus, many lives of civilians were saved.

So... Who caused the war?