1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Some viewers may find the following video disturbing viewer discretion is advised. 2 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:16,400 So, the official narrative of the mainstream media in the West is that Russia is 3 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:25,320 challenging NATO and the international rules based order by invading Ukraine. 4 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:33,480 This narrative ceases on Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as a starting point for 5 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:41,320 United States Russian relations and as evidence of Putin's goals of rebuilding Russia's long-lost empire. 6 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:45,320 Ukraine's independence came in 1991. 7 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:52,360 The Soviet Union had collapsed and as it splintered a number of new nations emerged, Ukraine was one of the largest. 8 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,680 Its population was 52 million. 9 00:01:54,680 --> 00:02:05,000 It was 1200 kilometers from east to west and with that land came a huge farming sector worth over $20 billion now or close to 15 billion pounds. 10 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 And as democracy moved east, this was a moment of optimism. 11 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,440 In 1991, Ukrainian celebrated their first election. 12 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,280 The US called it Mementas. 13 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,640 One voter described a flowering of our soul. 14 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:22,680 But for all the enthusiasm, democracy couldn't change Ukraine's geography or his history. 15 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,520 To the east was Russia. 16 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,160 To the west was Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. 17 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,240 All three had communist paths. 18 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,320 By 2004, all three had joined the European Union. 19 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,480 Being pro-Russia or pro-Europe, 20 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,520 became a fundamental dividing line in Ukrainian politics. 21 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,160 And, months later, we saw how. 22 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,960 The mid-alligations of electoral fraud, what became known as the orange revolution began. 23 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,960 And two men were the focus. 24 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Victor Yanakovic, who was pro-Russia, 25 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,280 and who initially been declared the winner. 26 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,640 And Victor Yashenko, here on the right, who was pro-Europe, 27 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,920 and would become president after a new vote. 28 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,400 And while the outcome of that election was settled, 29 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,800 relations with Russia were not. 30 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,680 In 2010, there was a further twist. 31 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,040 Yanakovic was re-elected and then in 2013, 32 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,240 he would take a decision with huge ramifications. 33 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,480 Chris Morris reported at the time. 34 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,520 As EU leaders arrived for the eastern partnership, 35 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,280 some it's something was missing. 36 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,720 The centrepiece was supposed to have been the signing 37 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,280 of an association agreement with Ukraine. 38 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,480 But it didn't happen. 39 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,640 Under pressure from Russia, Yanakovic walked away from that deal with the EU, 40 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,800 and another revolution would begin. 41 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,800 The Washington Post recently asked, 42 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,160 why is there tension between Russia and Ukraine? 43 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,000 Here is its answer. 44 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,920 In March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. 45 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,480 A month later, war erupted between Russian allied separatists 46 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,800 and Ukraine's military in the eastern Ukrainian region of Dunbass. 47 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,400 The United Nations Human Rights Office estimates 48 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,680 that more than 13,000 people have been killed. 49 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,280 But that account is highly misleading, 50 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,600 because, in nearly every case reported by the mainstream media, 51 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,960 they have omitted the United States extensive role. 52 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,560 In the 2014 coup, that preceded Russia's annexation of Crimea. 53 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,280 Focusing on just the latter part, the annexation of Crimea, 54 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:33,720 only serves to manufacture consent for United States intervention abroad, 55 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,040 and for tougher sanctions on Russia. 56 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,880 The backdrop to the 2014 coup, 57 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,080 and annexation cannot be understood 58 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,880 without looking at the United States strategy 59 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,480 to open Ukrainian markets to foreign investors, 60 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,040 and give control of its economy to giant multinational corporations. 61 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,840 A key tool for this has been the international monetary fund, 62 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,680 which leverages aid loans to push governments 63 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,440 to adopt policies friendly to foreign investors. 64 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:12,200 The IMF is funded by and represents Western financial capital and governments, 65 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:18,520 and has been at the forefront of efforts to reshape economies around the world for decades. 66 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,360 Often with disastrous results. 67 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,000 The Civil War in Yemen, and the coup in Bolivia, 68 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,520 both followed a rejection of IMF terms. 69 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:41,000 In Ukraine, the IMF had long planned to implement a series of economic reforms 70 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,280 to make the country more attractive to investors. 71 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:51,320 In 2013, after early steps to integrate with the West, 72 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,960 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanakovavic turned against these changes and 73 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,080 and betrayed integration talks with the European Union. 74 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:05,880 Once before his overthrow, he restarted economic negotiations with Russia, 75 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,400 in a major snub to the Western economic sphere. 76 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,560 By then, the nationalist protests were heating up 77 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,360 that would go on to topple his government. 78 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,120 During this tug of war between the deep state and Russia, 79 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:28,440 the Americans were engaged in a destabilization campaign against the Yanakovavic government. 80 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:38,920 After the 2014 coup, the new government quickly restarted the EU deal. 81 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:46,200 The campaign culminated with the overthrow of the elected president in the Mydan Revolution, 82 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,760 also known as the Mydan coup, or the Mydan massacre, 83 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,600 named for the Kiev Square that hosted the bulk of the protests. 84 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,480 In the end, the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 85 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,480 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 86 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,480 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 87 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,480 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 88 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,760 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 89 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,760 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 90 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,760 because the government was not allowed to go to the USA, 91 00:07:42,840 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scenes from the event seem to tell a different story. 147 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,800 It appears that the protesters were waiting for the police. 148 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,640 Additionally, there were dozens of journalists and cameraman 149 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,560 from all the new public TV news outlets, prepared to cover the events, 150 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,160 and most ominously, a group of well-trained young men arrived to Midon, 151 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,480 almost simultaneously with the riot police. 152 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:40,360 The infiltrated the crowd and began provocations with insults, stones, and torches. 153 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:50,120 As political turmoil engulfed the country in the lead up to 2014, 154 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,680 the United States was fueling anti-government sentiment through mechanisms 155 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:59,560 like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, and ED. 156 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:03,800 Just as they had done in 2004 as colour revolution. 157 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:16,600 In December 2013, Newland, a systemed secretary of state for European affairs, 158 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:22,280 and a long-time regime change advocate, said that the United States government had spent 159 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:27,560 5 billion promoting democracy in Ukraine since 1991. 160 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:34,360 The money went towards supporting senior officials in the Ukraine government. 161 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:39,560 Members of the business community as well as opposition civil society, 162 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:42,280 who agree with United States' goals. 163 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:57,080 Principles and values that are the cornerstones for all free democracies. 164 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:04,280 But began on November 24th as a protest against President Yana Kovych's decision to pause 165 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,680 on the route to Europe has become much deeper and bigger. 166 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,160 After blood was spilled by security forces on November 30th, 167 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,640 the movement also became about justice and civil rights. 168 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,760 Later that same day, I spent more than 2 hours with President Yana Kovych. 169 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,160 It was a tough conversation, but also a realistic one. 170 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:33,160 But I also made it clear that the United States believes there is a way out for Ukraine 171 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,240 that it is still possible to save Ukraine's European future, 172 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,640 and that that is where we wanted to see the President lead his country. 173 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:48,600 And that was going to require immediate steps to de-escalate the security situation 174 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,880 and immediate political steps to end the crisis and get Ukraine back into a conversation 175 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,920 with Europe and with the International Monetary Fund. 176 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:04,280 The reforms that the IMF insist on are necessary for the long-term economic health of the country. 177 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:09,240 A new deal with the IMF would also send a positive signal to private markets 178 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,880 and would increase foreign direct investment that is so urgently needed in Ukraine. 179 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,240 Signing the association agreement with the EU would also put Ukraine on a path to strengthening 180 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:24,520 the sort of stable and predictable business environment that investors require. 181 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:31,800 There is no other path that would bring Ukraine back to long-term political stability and economic growth. 182 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:38,280 As Vice President Biden said in remarks last night, President Yana Kovych has a choice. 183 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:45,400 He can choose the path that leads to division and isolation or he can take a leap 184 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:51,240 and take immediate tangible steps to diffuse his country's crisis and start a genuine dialogue 185 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:57,560 with the opposition and agree on a path that returns Ukraine to economic and political health. 186 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,840 Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians 187 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:09,560 as they build democratic skills and institutions as they promote civic participation and good governance, 188 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,120 all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. 189 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:19,240 We've invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals 190 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,160 that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine. 191 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:31,480 The NED is a key organization in the network of American soft power. 192 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:39,160 That pours 170 million a year into organizations dedicated to defending or installing 193 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:46,600 United States friendly regimes. The Washington Post's David Ignatius once wrote that the 194 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,520 organization functions by doing in public what the CIA used to do in private. 195 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:01,640 The NED targets governments who oppose the United States military or economic policy, 196 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:11,080 stirring up anti-government opposition. One of the many recipients of NED money for projects in Ukraine 197 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:19,000 was the International Republican Institute. The IORI once chaired by Senator John, 198 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:24,920 no name McCain, has long had a hand in United States regime change operations. 199 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:33,960 We see here that the IORI also worked their magic in Haiti. 200 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:52,200 During the protests that eventually brought down the government, 201 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:59,400 McCain and other United States officials personally flew into Ukraine to encourage protesters. 202 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:06,680 On February 6th, 2014, as the anti-government protests were intensifying, 203 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:12,680 an anonymous party assumed by many to be Russia, leaked a call between a system Secretary of 204 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,800 State Newland and United States ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Piott. 205 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,760 In early February of 2014, as the Mayden crisis was getting more violent, 206 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,520 there was a phone call that was intercepted. It was a call between the Assistant Secretary of 207 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:32,520 State for European Affairs, Victoria, Newland, and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Jeffrey Piott. 208 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,280 Questions of credibility are being raised after a private chat between two top U.S. diplomats 209 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,920 was leaked online. I think he outsest the guy who's got the economic experience, 210 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:48,040 the governing experience. He's the guy, you know, what he needs is Cleach and Tony Book on the 211 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:54,040 outside. I just think Cleach going in, he's going to be at that level working for Yatseneu, 212 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:58,760 it's just not going to work. Yeah, no, I think that's right. Okay. Good. 213 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,720 Well, you want to start a set of a call with him. He's the next step. 214 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:07,240 Salivans come back to me of EFR saying, you need Biden and I said, probably tomorrow for an 215 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,520 out of boy and get the deeds to stick to their Biden's willing. 216 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:15,640 So you had this remarkable phone call where you have these two senior officials of the U.S. government 217 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,600 apparently talking about a coup or how they were playing to restructure the government of Ukraine. 218 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:29,160 The two officials discussed which opposition officials would staff a prospective new government, 219 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:35,960 agreeing that Yatseneu could be in charge. The Washington Post acknowledged that the call showed 220 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:43,960 a deep degree of United States involvement in affairs that Washington only says are Ukraine's to resolve. 221 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:51,320 But that fact rarely factored into the future coverage of the United States, Ukraine and Russia 222 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:58,920 relationship. It was also agreed that someone high profile be brought into push things along. 223 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:05,480 That someone was, what I looked to Dr. Sherwood, are we a movie? 224 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,920 No, you're living. 225 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,920 One of the things that that I strongly believe is Joe Biden. 226 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:25,560 Wake up. 227 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,240 I should probably go home. 228 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:31,320 I'm tired. 229 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,520 Joe Biden. 230 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:35,960 Wake up. 231 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:38,120 Joe. 232 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:40,120 I'm tired. 233 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,200 Joe Biden. 234 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,840 What's happening? 235 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,200 Joe Biden. 236 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:46,840 I'm not going to be coming. 237 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:47,880 Joe. 238 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:48,840 Joe. 239 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:56,840 Hello. 240 00:19:58,360 --> 00:19:59,240 Mr. President. 241 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:01,000 Wake up. 242 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:12,840 You should have to pay nearly $6,400 more than you would today. 243 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 The United States 244 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,360 The protests and the forces of the United States 245 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,560 have been arrested on the German border with the United States. 246 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,520 The evidence of this today was presented in Kiev. 247 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,360 The prisoners of the people who received money for mass murder 248 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,080 was arrested on the two sides of the President's office. 249 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,800 The media and the video were taken to the hospital. 250 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,000 The prisoners were also taken to the hospital. 251 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,240 The authorities of the Aleksandr Abbalitzkov. 252 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,800 You are ready to show the evidence 253 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,200 of the conference. 254 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,200 The investigation is over. 255 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,400 The investigation is over. 256 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,680 The investigation is over. 257 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,680 The camera is now ready to confirm the Ukrainian court. 258 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,680 The only word is in the world. 259 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 260 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,240 The citizens of the Aleksandr Abbalitzkov. 261 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 262 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 263 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 264 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 265 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 266 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 267 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 268 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 269 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 270 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 271 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 272 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,240 The police are not allowed to leave the country. 273 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,160 The week later on February 22nd, 274 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:04,200 after a massacre by suspicious snipers brought tensions to a head, 275 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,440 the Ukrainian parliament quickly removed Janukovic from office 276 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,000 in a constitutionally questionable maneuver. 277 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,280 Janukovic then fled the country, calling the overthrow a coup. 278 00:22:25,240 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00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 306 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 307 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 308 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 309 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 310 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 311 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 312 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 313 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 314 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 315 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 316 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 317 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 318 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 319 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 320 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 321 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 322 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,240 They were allowed to leave the country. 323 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:07,240 The Washington backed opposition that toppled the government was fueled by far right 324 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,240 and openly Nazi elements like the right sector. 325 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,240 The most prominent among these extremist groups is an organization called Spoboda. 326 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,240 The Spoboda party which traces its roots of Ukrainian partisan party, 327 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,240 World War II, was loosely allied with Nazi Germany. 328 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,240 Until 2004, Spoboda had been called the social nationalist party. 329 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,240 A deliberate reference to the national socialism of the Nazis. 330 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,240 And we're not throwing the term neo-Nazi around here as an empty slur. 331 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,240 The leader of Spoboda, Holy Tani book, has openly targeted Jews and ethnic Russians in Ukraine for many years. 332 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,240 In 2004, he was kicked out of Victor Yushenko's government for speech calling for Ukrainians to fight against a quote, 333 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,240 Muska-Vai-Q-Ishmafia. 334 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,240 And in 2005, he signed his name to an open letter to the leadership of Ukraine entitled, 335 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,240 Stop the Criminal Activities of Organized Jewry. 336 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,240 And none of this was a secret. 337 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,240 The BBC was already reporting on the danger this Spoboda's rise posed back in 2012. 338 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,240 And the EU passed a resolution that same year condemning Spoboda as quote, 339 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,240 racist, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic. 340 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,240 It somehow the US government thought it was appropriate to back these extremists. 341 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,240 This is a picture of Victoria Newland from the US State Department meeting with Oletani book in February. 342 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,240 And this is a picture of Senator John McCain sharing a stage with Tani book in December. 343 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,240 But why would the US government work with neo-Nazi's? 344 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,240 Because they thought that they could control the situation. 345 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:28,240 They thought that they could install their puppets behind the scenes and manipulate the situation and their favor. 346 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:39,240 One far-right group that grew as the protests was the Azaf Battalion, a paramilitary militia of neo-Nazi extremists. 347 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:44,240 Their leaders made up the vanguard of the anti-yanacove-itch protests, 348 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,240 and even spoke at opposition events in the Maidan. 349 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:53,240 Alongside, regime change advocates like McCain and Newland. 350 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:27,240 In place of the defiant speeches, the somber strains of Beethoven now ring out over independent square. 351 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:34,240 This revolution is moving into a new phase. 352 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:39,240 It's the flowers and the children's tributes, flashes of something more sinister. 353 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,240 A very fair drop. The blood you've got is the way to rise. 354 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:48,240 Groups of armed men strapped through the square with dubious iconography. 355 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:57,240 That yellow armband is a vaults angle, a German symbol used by several SS divisions during the Second World War. 356 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,240 Far right, graffiti is appearing, dorked on the walls of the city. 357 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:09,240 The shooter is linked to a 74-page manifesto filled with white supremacist rhetoric. 358 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:18,240 At the age of the same, he's brought to desire to travel to Ukraine to fight with a far-right paramilitary group. 359 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:25,240 At least one member of an American hate group also trained in Ukraine with Azaf Battalion. 360 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:31,240 The symbols on their flags have been especially controversial. 361 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:36,240 Azaf says it combines the letters by and by and for idea of nation. 362 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,240 But extremism experts see it as an emblem of Naziism. 363 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:45,240 The official symbol of Azaf is a version of a song. 364 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:51,240 It was one of the symbols of one of SS divisions during the World War II. 365 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:58,240 It is one of more or less usual symbols for neo-Nazi groups all the world. 366 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,240 And it's not just about their symbols. 367 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:09,240 When it was founded in 2014, as of Germany, its commanders and recruits from Ukraine's most notorious far-right groups, including outright neo-Nazi's. 368 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:18,240 After the violent coup, these groups were later incorporated into the Ukrainian armed forces. 369 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:25,240 The same armed forces that the United States has now given 2.5 billion to. 370 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:34,240 And these forces have been responsible for a wide variety of atrocities in the counter-insurgency war. 371 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:46,240 In a recent UN vote on combating glorification of Naziism, neo-Naziism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism. 372 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:53,240 The United States and Ukraine were the only 2 countries to vote no. 373 00:28:54,240 --> 00:29:04,240 From Russia's point of view, a long time adversary had successfully overthrown a neighboring government using violent far-right extremists. 374 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:13,240 The Crimean Peninsula, which was part of Russia, until it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954, 375 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:24,240 is home to one of two Russian naval bases, with access to the black and Mediterranean seas, one of history's most important maritime theaters. 376 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:33,240 A Crimea controlled by a US-backed Ukrainian government was a major threat to Russian naval access. 377 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:41,240 In Crimea, 82% of the high-sold speak Russian, and only 2% speak mainly Ukrainian. 378 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:51,240 Well, they held a plebiscite on March 2014 on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. 379 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,240 The pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. 380 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:07,240 As many as 95.5% of the electricity in Crimea have voted to join Russia, that comes after 50% of votes have been counted. 381 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:19,240 The UN General Assembly led by the United States voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine's constitution. 382 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:27,240 This same constitution that had been set aside to asked President Yakonevich a month earlier. 383 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:32,240 All of this has been left out of Western media's coverage. 384 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:45,240 In addition to integrating Ukraine into the US-dominated economic sphere, the deep state Khabal also wanted to integrate Ukraine militarily. 385 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:54,240 For years, the United States has sought the expansion of NATO, an explicitly anti-Russian military alliance. 386 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:14,240 NATO was originally built as a counterforce to the Warsaw Parked during the Cold War, but after the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States promised the new Russia that it would not expand NATO east of Germany. 387 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:31,240 Despite this agreement, the United States continued building out its military alliance, growing closer and closer to Russia's borders, and ignoring Russia's objections. 388 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:38,240 Why we are so afraid of the Russia-Russian alliance? 389 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,240 We are afraid of the fact that we have to take action. I know how to take action. 390 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:48,240 When the country becomes a nationalist, I am very proud of the situation. 391 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:56,240 The pressure of the country is so large, the country is leader, as a former, and the people are afraid of everything that is good. 392 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:03,240 The system is a rocket-oriented, new bases, and the new modern complex. 393 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:08,240 We need to take this division and determine the countermeasures. 394 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:16,240 To set up the order of our missile systems, the objects that are in our hands are not going to begin. 395 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,240 If we attack, we will certainly respond. 396 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,240 I don't understand everything. 397 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:30,240 The logic of our partners is that we need to keep in the direction of the war. 398 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,240 We need to take action. 399 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,240 We need to take action. 400 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,240 We need to take action. 401 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,240 We need to take action. 402 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,240 We need to take action. 403 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,240 We need to take action. 404 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,240 We need to take action. 405 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,240 We need to take action. 406 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,240 We need to take action. 407 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,240 We need to take action. 408 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:30,240 We need to take action. 409 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,240 Putin has been clear about a path to de-escalation. 410 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:43,240 His main demand has been for direct negotiations to end the expansion of the hostile military alliance to his borders. 411 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:49,240 He announced that we have made it clear that NATO's move to the east is unacceptable, 412 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,240 and that the United States is standing with missiles on our doorstep. 413 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,240 40 missiles. 414 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:03,240 Longer range, IRBMs, they can hit every place in the country, except Seattle. 415 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,240 Mr. President, you give me the order right now. 416 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,240 My planes will be ready to carry out the air strikes in three days' time. 417 00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:16,240 All you gotta do is say go, my boys will get those red bastards. 418 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:20,240 General, how long until the arms ready? 419 00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:24,240 We've just begun the mobilization under cover of a pre-arranged exercise sir. 420 00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:29,240 We're looking at another week and a half, but you can order the strikes now. 421 00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:32,240 Plants call for an eight-day air campaign. 422 00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:36,240 They'll light a fire under the army's ass to get in place. 423 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:39,240 General, may you truly believe that's our best course of action. 424 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:42,240 Mr. President, I believe it is the only course of action. 425 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:44,240 America is in danger. 426 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:49,240 Those missiles are threat to our bomber bases and the safety of our nuclear deterrent. 427 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:53,240 Now without our deterrent, there's nothing to keep the enemy from choosing General Nuclear War. 428 00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:56,240 It's our duty sir. 429 00:34:56,240 --> 00:35:01,240 Our responsibility to the American people to take out those missiles and return stability 430 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,240 to the strategic situation. 431 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:08,240 The big red dog is digging in our backyard and we are justified in shooting him. 432 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,240 Sir, we have a rapidly closing window of opportunity. 433 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:18,240 Mr. President, the motto I chose for sack is peace is our profession. 434 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:25,240 God forbid, we find ourselves in a nuclear exchange, but if launched, those missiles from Cuba would kill a lot of Americans. 435 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:30,240 The very presence of those missiles gives the Soviets first strike capability. 436 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,240 Those missiles make a nuclear exchange more likely. 437 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:40,240 And that is why I'm being such a pain in the ass about destroying them and destroying them immediately. 438 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,240 I'll even make a grave. 439 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:53,240 And sir, given you our own statements about Cuba, I think a blockade or a bunch of political talk, 440 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:58,240 we considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as a pretty weak response. 441 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:04,240 I suspect that many of our own citizens might feel the same way. 442 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:08,240 Here in a pretty bad fix, Mr. President. 443 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,240 What did you say? 444 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:15,240 You're in a pretty bad fix. 445 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:21,240 Or maybe you have noticed you were really with me. 446 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:30,240 Those goddamn candidates are going to destroy this country if we don't do something about this. 447 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:37,240 Putin asked, how would the Americans react if missiles are in the middle of the country? 448 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:41,240 But if missiles were placed at the border with Canada or Mexico? 449 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:46,240 In corporate media coverage, no one bothers to ask this important question. 450 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:52,240 Instead, the assumption is that Putin ought to tolerate a hostile military alliance 451 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:57,240 directly across its border. 452 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:03,240 In 2010, Ukraine elected Victor Yorkonovitch as President. 453 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:12,240 The US and the EU were not happy about these events as they saw the new president as far to aligned with Russia. 454 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:17,240 Before the election of Yorkonovitch, Ukraine had a free trade deal with the EU. 455 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:26,240 But in 2013, Yorkonovitch did a 180 and refused to sign the deal, favoring closer ties with Russia. 456 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:34,240 In November 2013, led by Assistant Secretary of State for European anduration Affairs, Victoria Newland, 457 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:43,240 the United States deep state formed a color revolution called Euro Mydan, which led to a coup in Ukraine. 458 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:49,240 Yorkonovitch was overthrown and leaders in Eastern Ukraine declared allegiance to Yorkonovitch. 459 00:37:49,240 --> 00:38:01,240 This led to anti-government protests in February of 2014, and a referendum in Crimea were 97% of the respondents voted to return Crimea to Russia. 460 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:04,240 It will not be possible if we are in Europe. 461 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,240 We will not be able to do it. 462 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:10,240 We will not be able to do it. 463 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:11,240 We will not be able to do it. 464 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:14,240 We will not be able to do it. 465 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:23,240 Meanwhile, the new post-Cou Ukrainian government proposed a bill to remove Russian as an official language. 466 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:29,240 Russian speakers in East Ukraine were angered about this saying that ethnic Russians were an imminent danger. 467 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:38,240 In early 2014, Russia started sending support to Russians in the eastern regions of Ukraine. 468 00:38:38,240 --> 00:39:08,240 In the end, the Russian-speaking region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region of the Russian region 469 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:26,240 Also in early 2014 Russia started performing military exercises on the eastern Ukrainian border, just as NATO was doing the same in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, who share borders with Russia. 470 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:36,240 In September of 2014 Ukraine and Russia signed a ceasefire agreement in Minsk Belarus to end hostilities in East Ukraine. 471 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:52,240 Despite the Minsk agreements from 2014 to date, continuous battles have been waged between Ukrainian forces and Luhansk and the Nask separatists over territory on the Thumbass region in violation of the agreements. 472 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:59,240 Along with the armed conflict, the EU and the US imposed international sanctions against Russia. 473 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:06,240 The sanctions led to the collapse of the Russian currency and caused economic damage to EU countries. 474 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:12,240 By 2016, Russia had lost an estimated 600 billion. 475 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:20,240 The price of Russian gas is very competitive, and the United States cannot compete with Russia in the European market. 476 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:26,240 So a need arises to evict Russia from its status as the leading supplier. 477 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,240 New construction options. 478 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:34,240 Thus, Washington wants to kill Nord Stream 2 in its cradle. 479 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:39,240 The pipeline has become a test of the EU's strategic autonomy. 480 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:48,240 Washington thinks that the delay in clearing Nord Stream 2 will put pressure on Moscow to back off in Ukraine. 481 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:59,240 Since Russia stands to earn more than 15 billion annually out of the pipeline, Russia also invested around 11 billion in the pipeline's construction. 482 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:07,240 On hold, and Moscow has warned that holding Nord Stream 2 hostage will be counterproductive. 483 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:20,240 And it's doubtful that the Kremlin could be brow-beating to give up on its vital security concerns, NATO expansion and so on, for the sake of salvaging the gas exports to Europe. 484 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:27,240 Russia has huge currency reserves and can afford to take some financial losses. 485 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:36,240 Besides, Russia is shortly signing the deal for the power of Siberia 2 pipeline to China with a massive capacity. 486 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:48,240 If push comes to shove, Russia will replace the European buyers with Asian customers such as Japan, South Korea and India. 487 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,240 Building in progress. 488 00:41:50,240 --> 00:42:01,240 Moscow and Beijing are close to agreeing a second pipeline, the power of Siberia 2, which would double gas exports from Russia to China. 489 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:07,240 It would cross through Mongolia and into the power hungry industrial regions near Beijing. 490 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:16,240 It would also join up Russia's internal gas network connecting China with the same gas fields in Russia's Yamalp. 491 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:19,240 An insular that supply Europe. 492 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:28,240 It does give gasp on as that major exporter the optionality to direct gas to one market over another. 493 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:32,240 That could give Russia considerable leverage. 494 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:43,240 Technically, it is hard to tell whether the pricing system will be designed in a way that there is going to be the possibility to sell to the highest bidder. 495 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:55,240 But I think that Russia in its intent is definitely iron in this direction to be able to use it as a leverage, at least, with or at least in the coming decade. 496 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,240 First objective met. 497 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:05,240 I think it is very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia. 498 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:13,240 We are used to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia. 499 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:18,240 So we are protecting Germany, we are protecting France, we are protecting all of these countries. 500 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:27,240 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia with a paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. 501 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:32,240 So we are supposed to protect you against Russia, but they are paying billions of dollars to Russia. 502 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:34,240 And I think that is very inappropriate. 503 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:40,240 And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline, not the way that it is applying the gas. 504 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:49,240 Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas. 505 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:51,240 So you tell me is that appropriate. 506 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:57,240 I mean, really, I think complaining about this from the time I got into it, you should have never been allowed to have happened. 507 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:06,240 But Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they will not get it from 60% to 70% of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline. 508 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:09,240 And you tell me if that is appropriate because I think it is not. 509 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:13,240 And I think it is a very bad thing for NATO and I don't think it should have happened. 510 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:21,240 Now if you look at it, Germany is a captive of Russia because they simply, they got rid of their coal, but they get rid of it, nuclear. 511 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:26,240 They get so much of the oil and gas from Russia. 512 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,240 I think it is something that NATO has to look at. 513 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,240 I think it is very inappropriate. 514 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,240 You and I agree that it is an appropriate. 515 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:41,240 The US and NATO created this crisis because they tossed aside the reasonable demands of the Russian Federation. 516 00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:46,240 In two draft treaties submitted on December 21st, 2021, 517 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:51,240 one of the key demands was for a neutral Ukraine, 518 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:54,240 and a binding pledge that it would never join NATO. 519 00:44:55,240 --> 00:45:00,240 For his part, Ukrainian President Zelensky dismissed the Minsk protocols, 520 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:09,240 which was the only formula to solve the impasse over the breakaway republics in Denensk and Luhansk. 521 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:15,240 The Minsk protocols required the Ukrainian government to negotiate with the breakaway region, 522 00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:18,240 concerning the restoration of its previous autonomy, 523 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:26,240 as well as language and cultural rights prior to the Maidan Kuh in 2014. 524 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:32,240 These failures left the Russian speaking people of the Dunbaas alone to suffer, 525 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:36,240 the increasing military onslaught of the Ukrainian government, 526 00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:43,240 riddled with neo-Nazi parties and agdawn by Western arms and money. 527 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:50,240 All of these reasons and three decades of betrayal by the United States and NATO, 528 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:56,240 of their pledges in the early 1990s to Gorbachev, the last Soviet President, 529 00:45:56,240 --> 00:46:02,240 that NATO wouldn't expand one inch eastward of a United Germany 530 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:06,240 as why we see these moves from Russia today. 531 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:11,240 However, in the past 30 years, rather than dissolving itself, 532 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:17,240 it was set up to protect North Atlantic countries from the alleged danger of communism, 533 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:21,240 NATO expanded 800 kilometers to the east, 534 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:26,240 and admitted 14 states which had been broke away from the former Soviet Union, 535 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:29,240 or were former members of the Warsaw Pact. 536 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:36,240 Western military and naval forces were stationed in these new NATO member countries, 537 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:44,240 and NATO installed missile systems and held massive drills close to Russia's diminished borders. 538 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:47,240 Soviet Empire has fallen. 539 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:53,240 Clearly the United States plan was for its aggressive military alliance NATO 540 00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:57,240 to expand right up to all of Russia's border, 541 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:00,240 with a view to further dismembering Russia, 542 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:06,240 and consolidating United States' hegemony over the entire European continent. 543 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:12,240 Russia, in its desire to protect the people of the Dunbass region, 544 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,240 decided quite reasonably to recognize their governments, 545 00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:20,240 and to create a demonetrized zone in the rest of Ukraine. 546 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:22,240 Russia says, 547 00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:26,240 it has no intention of controlling Ukraine and its military operation 548 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:34,240 is only to demilitarize and denatify Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years 549 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:38,240 of the United States pushing Russia too far. 550 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,240 Since 1991, there have been multiple waves of NATO expansion. 551 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:46,240 The first one was in 1999, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined the NATO. 552 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:48,240 All three were members of the Warsaw Pact. 553 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,240 Now they're all NATO allies. 554 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:53,240 The second wave came in 2004. 555 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:58,240 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, 556 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:02,240 all of them joined NATO, then came the controversial Bucharest Summit in 2008. 557 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:05,240 NATO turned its focus on the western Balkans. 558 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:09,240 Albanian Croatia joined in 2009, Montenegro in 2017, 559 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:12,240 North Macedonia in 2020. 560 00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:16,240 Three countries are considered aspiring members. 561 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:19,240 Bosne and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Georgia. 562 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:23,240 Now if you look at this map now, it has changed completely before 1991, 563 00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:25,240 NATO was confined to Western Europe. 564 00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:27,240 Today it is a Russia's gates. 565 00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:31,240 Vladimir Putin is not the only leader to have condemned this expansion. 566 00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:34,240 It was criticized by Gorbachev and Borussia's in two. 567 00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:39,240 The differences, Putin is drawing a red line and that red line for him is Ukraine. 568 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:44,240 Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV address, 569 00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:47,240 that the goal of Russia's military operation 570 00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:54,240 was not to take control of Ukraine, but to demilitarize it and denatsify the country. 571 00:48:54,240 --> 00:49:00,240 Moments after he spoke, explosions were heard in several Ukrainian cities. 572 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:08,240 The Russian defense ministry said these were precision attacks against Ukrainian military installations, 573 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:11,240 and that civilians were not being targeted. 574 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:18,240 It also said Ukraine's air force on the ground and its air defenses had been destroyed. 575 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,240 Second objective met. 576 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:26,240 I'm paying in Ukraine, began after the Dabas Republics were officially recognised by Russia. 577 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:31,240 We see here the signing ceremony with President Putin on February 21st. 578 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:32,240 Third objective met. 579 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:38,240 After eight years of war or rather eight years of the Dabas Republics being under attack by Ukraine, 580 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:44,240 both the Republics swiftly appealed to President Putin for military assistance to end the conflict. 581 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:47,240 President Putin announced Russia's military action. 582 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:15,240 The state-owned military operation was a part of the Russian military operation. 583 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:19,240 The military operation was a part of the Russian military operation. 584 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:24,240 The whole of the country's military operation was under attack by the military operation. 585 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:29,240 The military operation was under attack by the military operation. 586 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:34,240 We will be meeting the general and denatification of Ukraine. 587 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:44,240 We have also come to the south of the land, who has decided to be a part of the Russian Federation. 588 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:49,240 We will not be able to occupy Ukraine. 589 00:50:49,240 --> 00:50:53,240 We will not be able to take any action. 590 00:50:54,240 --> 00:51:03,240 The Russian military operation is going strictly in accordance with schedule, according to the plan. 591 00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:07,240 All the goals are being successfully achieved. 592 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:17,240 Dear comrades, I want to say that the special military operation is going strictly in accordance with schedule, according to the plan. 593 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:20,240 All the goals are being successfully achieved. 594 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:30,240 Have a look at this three-year delta from the Q-drops, which demonstrates that we are on schedule and Putin is clearly involved. 595 00:51:30,240 --> 00:51:38,240 In his national address, Putin spoke of the US-inspired coup in Kiev of 2014. 596 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:45,240 Who's a hunter thought it could impose its will on the Russian-speaking minority in the Dunbass? 597 00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:52,240 At one point he directly threatened the extreme nationalists who seized power in the 2014 coup, 598 00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:59,240 and let loose a wave of violence and systematic persecution against ethnic Russians. 599 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:05,240 Putin said, the criminals who committed that atrocity have never been punished, 600 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:10,240 and no one is even looking for them, but we know their names, 601 00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:17,240 and we will do everything to punish them, find them and bring them to justice. 602 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:20,240 This I believe is what we are witnessing now. 603 00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:23,240 Nazis getting put the fuck down. 604 00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,240 See that this is not the thing doing it. 605 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:28,240 If you're feeling too loud, you're not sure, though. 606 00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:29,240 Come out to me, Joshua. 607 00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:30,240 Have a bloody week. 608 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:31,240 Let's go, Chuck it. 609 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:32,240 Touch your stress, Guy. 610 00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:33,240 Grab me, Lankman. 611 00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:35,240 Held your nerves. 612 00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:38,240 The Johnny, Krayon, in the same room. 613 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:41,240 The teenagers have been reckoned to Ross Kiery and Teeth. 614 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:43,240 We're counting in three. 615 00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:44,240 I've been in a half-man. 616 00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:46,240 In the other. 617 00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:50,240 And, please go down for the second time in the fight. 618 00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:56,240 And this is Anthony Joshua, Krayon, of Kyrgyz, right now. 619 00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:58,240 And, please go. 620 00:52:58,240 --> 00:53:03,240 Is something to us, a man to the man. 621 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:04,240 A man to the man. 622 00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:05,240 A man to the wall. 623 00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,240 Sains of weapon. 624 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:09,240 Please go. 625 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:10,240 Just go. 626 00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:14,240 Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell for more must-see videos.