Hillary’s War: How Clinton’s Russia Hoax Helped Ignite the Ukraine Bloodbath

This morning, I watched a video of Jeffrey Sachs explaining the facts of life to the EU regarding Ukraine. His speech echoed the sentiments I have been writing about here for a long time now. I don’t necessarily agree with Sachs about Israel, but it’s a great video about the Ukraine conflict.

The war in Ukraine is at a stalemate and has been for almost three years, except that Russia seems to be gaining ground more and more quickly. Things are not going well for Ukraine. It’s a lot worse than the media is portraying.

Soldiers are tired and thousands are deserting

Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia, which could put Kyiv at a clear disadvantage in future ceasefire talks.

Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity, according to soldiers, lawyers and Ukrainian officials. Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers.

Some take medical leave and never return, haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory. Others clash with commanders and refuse to carry out orders, sometimes in the middle of firefights.

Ukraine is running kidnap conscription raids:

Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, media and witnesses reported Saturday.

Officers descended on Kyiv’s Palace of Sports venue after a concert Friday night by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy. Video footage aired by local media outlets appears to show officers stationed outside the doors of the concert hall intercepting men as they exit. In the footage, officers appear to be forcibly detaining some men.

Checks were also conducted at Goodwine, an upscale shopping centre, and Avalon, a popular restaurant.

There are three possible outcomes for the war in Ukraine. It goes on unabated and Ukraine likely loses everything, there is a negotiated settlement, or there is real nuclear war.

How did we get here? When did Russia become so much more evil? Something changed along the way.

• In 1990 James Baker assured Russia that there would be “not one inch eastward” of NATO expansion.

There is a lot of “Trump has taken sides with Putin” bullsh*t being uttered by the left. But as I have repeated over and over, liberals have zero long term memory. I seem to be one of the very few who remember Barack Obama wanting to reduce tension with Russia.

• In 2009 Obama dismantled the missile shield in Poland to appease Putin. Hillary offered up that reset button.

• In 2012 Mitt Romney said Russia was our #1 geopolitical foe. Obama chided Romney saying “The cold war is over” and “the eighties called. They want their foreign policy back.”
• Then in February 2014 Obama and Victoria Nuland undermined the Ukranian elections in the Euromaiden protests, ousting pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych in favor of pro-western Petro Poroshenko. Russia intercepted a Victoria Nuland phone call and leaked it to the media.

“Jake Sullivan’s come back to me, saying you need Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the details to stick. So Biden’s willing.”

Here’s more

 
In response, Putin annexes Crimea.

• April 2014

Pro-Russian groups, supported covertly by Russia, started seizing government buildings and declaring “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk. This marked the beginning of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, often referred to as the War in Donbas. The separatists, backed by Russian military and financial aid, sought greater autonomy or outright independence from Ukraine, fueled by a mix of regional identity, economic ties to Russia, and opposition to the pro-Western shift in Kyiv.

The Eastern provinces- which Russia now holds- never wanted to be part of pro-Western government.

• September 2014 The Minsk 1 agreement attempts to settle the conflict and fails.
• April 2015 Minsk 2

The Minsk II Agreement, signed on February 12, 2015, was a diplomatic effort to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. It built on the earlier Minsk Protocol from September 2014, which had failed to stop the fighting. The agreement was negotiated by leaders from Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany—known as the Normandy Format—and endorsed by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe).

Then comes 2016. Hillary Clinton destroys relations with Russia with her vile Russian collusion hoax.

Max Abrahms on X:

Once you understand the causal effect of the Russia collusion hoax on the Ukraine war you realize how fundamental Hillary Clinton was to the bloodshed.

Jeff Carlson on X:

The Russia-Collusion hoax fundamentally altered our entire foreign policy – making it impossible to have normalized dialogue with a nuclear world superpower. The political weaponization of Ukraine for Trump’s first impeachment was gasoline on the fire.

Stephen McIntyre on X:

if the hoax had expired with the 2016 election, it wouldn’t have mattered. The hoax matters because of actions taken by Obama administration after the election to expand the hoax through the Intel Community Assessment and its endorsement of Steele dossier hoax and, critically, the actions of Comey and FBI in 2017 to institutionalize the hoax into a special counsel even as the predicate totally collapsed. Comey and FBI have responsibility for the metastasis of a campaign dirty trick into the national flesh-eating disease that sabotaged incoming administration and poisoned international relations for a decade and counting.

Hans Mahncke:

Russiagate is the greatest political scandal of all time for a simple reason: the combined forces of Obama, the sitting president at the time, along with the FBI and CIA, worked to take down President Trump based on something not only fabricated—but fabricated by them. It was an attempted coup by a sitting president against his democratically elected successor. Yet here we are, eight years after the full weaponization of government to remove Trump, and not only has no one been held to account, but vast troves of critical documents remain unreleased.

2016-2020

Russia makes no further aggressive moves toward Ukraine.

• 2021: Bumbling Biden.
• Aug 2021 Biden clusterf**ks Afghanistan
• December 2021 Biden assures Ukraine NATO membership if they want it.
• January 2022 Biden predicts Russia will enter Ukraine, but says a minor incursion is acceptable

US President Joe Biden spent the first anniversary of his inauguration in damage control with his top aides clarifying a blunder over Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine.

Hours after suggesting during a press conference that the West might accept a “minor incursion” into Ukraine, Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and senior White House officials moved to clear up the comments amid criticism that Biden appeared to be giving the go-ahead for a small-scale invasion by Russia.

• February 24, 2022- Russia invades Ukraine. Within weeks, a peace agreement was proposed but Boris Johnson (and most likely Joe Biden) pressured Zelenskyy not to accept it.

Since then, the war continues with great loss of life on both sides, but Russian is winning. The best thing that could happen is a cessation of the conflict.

Currently Donald Trump is doing as Barack Obama did- trying to lower tensions and end the war because it is, as Jeffrey Sachs points out, a loser. But when Trump does it, it’s awful and he’s a Putin puppet. It makes no sense to insult the person with whom you seek a peace agreement but that’s where democrat heads are.

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve confronted all the liberals a**holes and armchair warriors who ferociously push for more war asking them

“What’s your f**king solution?”

There is never an answer. Not from the Vietnam hero Blumenthal. Not from the traitorous Vindman twins. Not from Jay from Kyiv. Both Vietnam hero Dick Blumenthal and that squish Mitt Romney believe this war is great spending.

Fresh from a trip to Kyiv, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is arguing that the US is getting its “money’s worth” in Ukraine because Russia is taking losses and no Americans are dying, showing a lack of concern for Ukrainian lives.

“Even Americans who have no particular interest in freedom and independence in democracies worldwide, should be satisfied that we’re getting our money’s worth on our Ukraine investment,” Blumenthal wrote in the Connecticut Post.

“For less than 3 percent of our nation’s military budget, we’ve enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia’s military strength by half … All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost,” he added.

The argument has become a common talking point among hawks in Washington who want the US to keep fueling the proxy war against Russia. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) recently called the conflict “the best national defense spending I think we’ve ever done.”

Not one bit of concern for the loss of about 400,000 dead or wounded Ukrainians. Both are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. I wonder what they would do when Ukraine runs out of bodies for the meat grinder.

Yesterday Zelenskyy said he would step down if peace could be achieved or if Ukraine joined NATO. The latter is a non-starter. He rejected a proposal that would have shared mineral rights with the US. US SoS Marco Rubio said such an agreement would have meant security for Ukraine as the US would have a vested interest in Ukraine’s safety.

 
An agreement may still be possible. and it would be in Ukraine’s self-interest.

For them and us, the sooner the better.