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Whenever our governmental officials or our national broadcast media speak about the cause of the war in Ukraine and Russia, they make the pronouncement that Russia invaded Ukraine without provocation. But is that true?
In doing so didn’t our (US - ed) government and our media speak falsehoods and lies? Didn’t Russia embark on its limited Special Military Operation (SMO) only after having received monumental provocations from the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over most of the last three decades?
In 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union U.S. Secretary of State James Baker promised Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch” closer to Russia. NATO should have disbanded at that juncture. The NATO alliance had banded together early in the cold war against a perceived threat from the Soviet Union. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, didn’t the threat against which NATO had resolved to defend western Europe no longer exist?
But then in 1999, without any new military threats coming from Russia, didn’t NATO expand by granting membership to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary? Russia protested. In 2004 didn’t NATO further expand eastwards again by granting membership to the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia bringing its war machine right up to the Russian border?
Since 1991 NATO has more than doubled the number of countries in its alliance. Today NATO has 32 member countries. In 2008 at the Bucharest summit NATO declared its intention of adding Ukraine and Georgia to its membership. Didn’t some NATO planners hope to have Ukraine join Romania and Poland creating a triad of missile launching bases minutes away from Moscow?
Might one imagine the consternation in the Kremlin as the Russian political and military leaders observed its encirclement by nearby western military bases with missiles capable of reaching Moscow? Apparently, the U.S. political leaders and the voices in the media do not think we have provoked Russia by expanding NATO in this manner. During this military encroachment toward Russia’s borders, the people of Russia practiced patience and self-restraint.
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In early 2014 the U.S. instigated and then executed a bloody coup which violently overthrew the popular Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich at the Maidan Nezalezhnosty public square in downtown Kiev where several dozen men lost their lives.
Yanukovich fled to Russia. Yanukovich had favored economic cooperation with Russia rather than with the European Union which infuriated our state department and European politicians.
The U.S. had helped install a new government in Ukraine, one hostile towards Russians and the Russian tongue. The Ukrainian legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, passed laws outlawing the use of the Russian language in all official governmental, educational and legal institutions. Russian speaking Ukrainians in the eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk watched aghast as these events unfolded.
Then in May 2014 after protesting that Maidan coup in Kiev, 44 Russian speaking Ukrainians in Odessa fled to the Trades Union Building for their safety. In hot pursuit a frenzied gang of Ukrainian neo-Nazis set the building ablaze, incinerating them all. Ukraine refused to prosecute the arsonist murderers. Immediately thereafter the Russians in the Donbas [basin of the Don River] sought political autonomy.
After the illegitimate Maidan coup the Ukrainian military began a war against its own citizens living in Donetsk and Lugansk by sending troops and tanks to the East where they began bombarding the cities and villages of Russians who no longer wanted to belong to a country whose borders dated only to the recent year of 1991.
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Russians in the eastern oblasts, not just Donetsk and Lugansk, will tell you that Catherine the Great had annexed their lands in about 1783. Maps of Russia from the last three centuries list these eastern oblasts as belonging to Little Russia, New Russia or South Russia depending upon which map you consult.
The illegitimate post-Maidan coup Ukrainian government worked to deny the legitimate aspirations of the Russians in the Donbas by prosecuting an eight year long war upon their own citizens, all with the support of the United States government and with U.S. supplied munitions. The Ukrainian army slaughtered more than 14,000 Russians during the eight-year siege. Does this count as provocation?
The illegitimate governments of “presidents” Petro Poroshenko and then Volodymyr Zelensky declared their intentions to have Ukraine join NATO. Might this have understandably provoked a reaction from Russia, with whom Ukraine shares a 1,200-kilometer border?
Since the 2022 Russian-limited SMO, I have observed Russia show the greatest restraint in its conduct during the war. On the other hand, I have watched Ukraine engage in many illegal or immoral deeds over the duration of this conflict. For instance, the assassination last fall by a remotely detonated bomb killing a Russian general working to expose the extensive production of secret illegal biological weapons by Ukraine.
In June 2025 Great Britain helped the Ukrainian military to strike deeply inside Russia by bombing several airfields with resulting damage to some of Russia’s fleet of nuclear capable bombers. International law would not condemn a retaliatory strike by Russia on the U.K. for its reckless conduct. But saner heads prevail in the Kremlin. Russia does not want to take the chance that hotheads in Washington or perhaps in NATO would bring us to thermonuclear Armageddon.
Didn’t Putin and Russia endure eight years of provocations from 2014-2022 before sending their army into the Donbas to come to the aid of Russian speaking Ukrainians, who were then preparing to withstand a renewed onslaught by Zelensky’s neo-Nazi conscripts and his Azov Battalion?
Since then, Russia has prosecuted the war with great restraint, hoping that Ukraine and the West would open their eyes and understand that Russia will prevail in this war. Russia will never again relinquish those eastern Oblasts and Crimea.
Russia has the ability to absolutely flatten the country, destroy the power grid, the roads and bridges, everything. But she does not want to do so. She restrains herself from inflicting unnecessary suffering. But she will prevail in this conflict even if it takes many more years.
Russia will not stop until she has the assurance that Ukraine will forevermore remain neutral and not become a member of NATO. Ukraine might even cease to exist, disappearing into the history books, with portions getting returned to the five or six countries from which she was assembled prior to 1991.
Perhaps Russia will reclaim all her lost oblasts east of the River Dnepr. She will restore all the old Russian names to the cities the Ukrainians have renamed. But she will do it slowly and carefully, all the while hoping that common sense will prevail in Washington and in Western Europe.
I understand that the U.S. has instigated this war against Russia, using the Ukrainian army as its proxies. The Ukrainian military fights Russia to advance U.S. interests.
We pretend we came to defend a poor east European country against a belligerent unprovoked invasion by Russia, while knowing all along we have provoked Russia’s intervention.
American Neocons hate Russia for its challenge to our global hegemony. Neoconservatives in the U.S. State Department have drawn up a plan to dismantle or dismember Russia into nine independent regions, a Balkanization, rendering her less of a threat to U.S. hegemony.
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More than that, Russia also infuriates advocates of a new world order because Russia staunchly resists all LBGTQ initiatives, and all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies, clinging instead to theOrthodox truths and dogmas taught by Our Lord and His Church.
Russia will prevail in this fight because her soldiers love their country, love their Orthodox faith, and will bravely give their lives for the precious cause of saving their country, their faith and its traditions. They will also gladly welcome back into Mother Russia all those Russians who did not ask for inclusion into the country-not-built-to-last, whose problematic borders date only to 1991.
Wasn’t the Russian/Ukrainian border drawn 500-800 kilometers too far east in 1991, which has caused a civil war between those countries since 2014? They should have made the river Dnepr as the border between the two countries. Why should the U.S. or NATO have any vital national interests concerning where that border should lie?
NATO countries have an irrational fear that Russia poses a threat to them when Russia only seeks to protect Russians from the onslaught they suffered from the brutal regime in Kiev since 2014. Russia never wanted this war. She restrained herself for eight years. Finally, the provocations from Kiev and the U.S., caused Russia to send her troops across the border in February 2022 to prevent further destruction in the cities of Russians living in Donetsk and Lugansk.
Kiev has now learned she has misplayed her hand. Over the course of the war these past three years many other oblasts now want to rejoin Russia: Zaporizhia, Kherson, and Dnepropetrovsk. Maybe Mikolaiv and Odessa will be next. The Russian army will not stop until Russia has certainty that Ukraine will remain a neutral country outside of the NATO alliance.
American neoconservatives have miscalculated. This war will not defeat and dismember Russia. Instead, she will emerge from it reconstituted and stronger. Let’s pray to our Blessed Mother that the U.S. and NATO have the humility to admit defeat in this war with Russia. Let’s pray we have the future wisdom to refrain from launching both conventional and nuclear weapons over territorial disputes in Eastern Europe where none of our national interests lie.https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/7863-might-russia-occupy-the-moral-high-ground?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_co
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