UKRAINE: What THEY did not tell you in 2014...

The clamour for war resounds in the corridors of Western power.

The propaganda will increase exponsentially until THEY get what they want.

The establishment tells us only what it wants us to know. Check out what it didn't want us to know back in 2014...

On 22 February 2022, Peter Hitchens said this in The Daily Mail:

"We have been utter fools. We have treated Russia with amazing stupidity. Now we pay the price for that. We had the chance to make her an ally, friend and partner. Instead we turned her into an enemy by insulting a great and proud country with greed, unearned superiority, cynicism, contempt and mistrust... 

People and governments who now claim to despise Vladimir Putin for his aggression, for his suppression of freedom and for his corruption did not seem to be bothered by these things when his forerunner, Boris Yeltsin, did them. 

It is a fascinating contrast. Yeltsin, a former Communist machine politician with a far from perfect past, ordered tanks to shell his own parliament, while his police shot down demonstrators. He savaged Chechnya. His own re-election to the presidency stank of money. Corruption under his rule was so flagrant and grotesque that, when he quit, many Russians welcomed with relief the return of what the film-maker Stanislav Govoryukin called 'normal corruption'. 

Yeltsin, often paralysed with drink, was a welcome guest in the West, even the White House, despite his embarrassing and crude behaviour. But Yeltsin, unlike Putin, did nothing to control the oligarchs, allowed the West to continue its rape of Russia's economy, and – above all – made no protest against the humiliation of his country by the continued expansion of NATO eastwards across Europe. 

This was by then a more or less openly anti-Russian alliance (who else is it directed against?). It wasn't just that the West had promised not to do this, as numerous documents now show beyond doubt. It was that it was stupid, and created the very crisis it claimed to be protecting us against. 

Interestingly the leading protesters against this Nato expansion were not Russian nationalists but highly intelligent and experienced independent figures. One was the Russian liberal politician Yegor Gaidar, a man Western leaders claim to have admired. He prophesied with total accuracy that the policy would strengthen hardliners and nationalists in the Kremlin. 

Then came the brilliant American diplomat George F. Kennan, a man nobody could accuse of being soft on Communism. But, unlike so many others, he could tell the new transformed Russia apart from the old USSR. Kennan had been architect of the USA's policy of containment of the USSR. He came out of retirement to deplore Bill Clinton's support for pushing Nato east. I quote his prediction at length because he was so right.

'I think it is the beginning of a new Cold War,' said Mr Kennan. 'I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. 'I think it is a tragic mistake. 

There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. 'This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way... 

I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don't people understand? Our differences in the Cold War were with the Soviet Communist regime.' 

'We are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.'

He asked why East-West relations should 'become centred on the question of who would be allied with whom – and by implication against whom – in some fanciful, totally unforeseeable and most improbable future military conflict'. These questions demanded an answer, and never got one. 

It is my unflinching view, amid all the current anti-Putin hysteria, that the leaders of the West have made the crisis we now face today out of thin air. I also happen to think that many of them, for varying reasons, are such lightweights that they enjoy the chance to posture and threaten – and do not realise this is deadly serious. 

In hints, in pleas, in public speeches and private approaches, Russia has begged us for years to show it the most basic respect. Our response has been to react with mistrust and abuse, and with blatant attempts to worsen the situation in Ukraine and Georgia, two incredibly dangerous flashpoints where real war might all too easily begin...

I cannot forgive or forget this great missed opportunity to bring Russia into the free and lawful world. And I think the peoples of the West should think very carefully before they follow the path to a new and bitter division of Europe. It is wholly avoidable. It gains us nothing. And it might lose us everything."

Not the first time Peter has been on the money as regards the West's politicians/MSM and Ukraine.

 

Back in 2014...