This operation did little to damage the Russian economy, which continues to grow. It DID push Russia to a closer relationship with the BRICS, who now control an even larger section of the fossil fuel sector. Meanwhile, Germans are suffering with other parts of Europe, whose personal spending power has been crippled by heating costs. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop sticking our nose in places where it doesn’t belong.
The “Empire” does not exist and has never existed. Any empire.
There are only particular people who group together (formally or not, for their own sake or under the false premise of acting for or on behalf of larger groups, like nations or countries).
These people tend to define the so-called laws and secure them with enforcement and penalties - which are not suprahuman or objective of of any higher order. All laws are aligned to keep the isolation of those who can “manage” others from those would prefer living a quiet life without being disturbed and without disturbing others.
With enough whistleblowing efforts, FOIA requests and true journalism, sooner or later documents, interviews and facts come to the surface which prove that we - as a society - don’t know what “law” means and we don’t care. Decision-making groups (aka the “Empire”) do whatever they want, not asking anyone, disregarding common sense, the rule of the law which they define themselves, openly violating international relations. Nobody there is interested in keeping the standards of “ecology”, “environmental care”, “justice”, “national sovereignty”, “primum non nocere” or any other catchy phrase used to generate $$ trillions in free, non-taxable, unaccountable money flows to individual pockets of particular people and their “families”.
AD 2024, we are equal to the fantasy images of the games of the thrones, pre-civilized invasions and forceful taking of the living space of other nations.
Is it good? Or bad? It is what it is. Apparently, we - as a community - don’t know any other way of living. We don’t know and don’t accept peaceful coexistence - the whole history is proof of this, every year, every month, every day. Arts and humanities are only a fleeting brake between invasions, attacks, false flags, Trojan horses, colonial conquests or, in general, illegal actions aimed at depriving others of what they have.
Where does it start? At home. Like anything else. We all are being “brought up” within certain packages of rules and guidelines, originally (probably) intended to make a life in a commune easier. Then, something cracks within us and we forget all beautiful stories. We love children only when they are helpless and completely subordinate to our will, beautiful newborns. As soon as they can walk and provide useful work, we destroy them and mold into useful slaves. We don’t teach them the basics of human relationships, the timeless morale and ethics, we don’t educate them about falling in love, building the relationship and ending it with dignity, if such need arises. We leave our own children helpless in the face of Life. No wonder that many of these children will grow into becoming tyrants, master manipulators who will skilfully build groups of impact who will mercilessly exploit others. No civilization there.
But this is not any “empire”. These are all particular individuals who have names and are identifiable as individual persons, with all the interesting characteristics of psychological analysis. They - we - all come from the same place, Home, and it is there where we are NOT being taught how to live in peaceful coexistence with other people.
Why is it important? Because we are here for a very short time. 50, 60, 70 years for the fortunate ones. This time limit for us to become human will expire much much sooner than we think. In a sense, it is amazing how much destruction, hatred, damage and human injury we are able to leave behind when the time comes to make the final settlement. And equally amazing how few and scarce good deeds we are able to do during our lifetime. Especially when we are in positions of power and making decisions for others.
But this is not any “empire”. This is what we are, you and me, particular individuals with specific personal characteristics.
Does Seymour Hersh have ulterior motives? Is he a "Journalist" or a Limited Hang-out cover provider, with unknown masters and a different agenda?
I see the main motive for the destruction of Nord Stream as being to weaken the growing Peace in Central Europe. When the pipeline constructions from Russia to Europe began, many people were very happy. Such mutually beneficial trade made future European Wars much less likely.
Who really benefited from the pipeline destruction? Is there an entity that hates both Germany and Russia? NATO springs immediately to mind; Alliances between Germany and Russia would negate the Global ambitions of this military bureaucracy. But, I think that answer is incomplete.
I suspect that Global Zionism is a far better fit for The Perpetrator. This group exhibits 'Means, Motive, and Opportunity' with their trans national connections and influence in ever country.
There is a bit more involved that is not at all obvious. But Gaza and Ukraine have more in common that you may think. What follows is a time line I created in 2022 to understand why the US would encroach on Russia, when the US almost went to war with USSR via Cuban missile crisis.
___________
July 2013 Ukraine Black Sea Gas, Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014,
Feb 24, 2022 special military operation declared by Russia in Ukraine Donbas
Good day all,
A time line for the current Ukraine and SMO of Russia.
1) Gas some oil found off the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, Jul 19, 2013
2) Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014
So the coup starts 6 months after finding Gas. The coup puts Zelensky etal in power. Zelensky starts borrowing money, and the West starts building up Ukraine's military so it can take back the republics of Lugansk Donetsk and Crimea.
Since the Russian SMO what collateral does the Ukraine have to borrow so much from the IMF? Why did the IMF loan any money to the already deeply in debt Ukraine? Why is the US so heavily invested in support of the Ukraine? Why is the EU shooting itself in the foot regarding energy? None of this made any sense to me.
Unless the EU was told by US and Ukraine that all the gas they would ever need is in the gas field off the Ukraine coast. Then it makes some kind of sense what is happening. Support Ukraine and make it an EU member after defeating Russia and the gas is the EUs. Also helps explain why the US is all dug in and NATO/EU too as well as UK in defeating Russia. Without the pipe dream of Ukrainian Gas none of this makes any sense to me. Links follow.
The first well drilled by Chornomornaftogaz and Shelton Canada in the Black Sea near Odessa discovered gas, according to reports from the area.
KIEV, Ukraine -- The first well drilled by Chornomornaftogaz and Shelton Canada in the Black Sea near Odessa discovered gas, according to reports from the area.
The Biryuchya Zakhidnyy 1, 50 km offshore on the northwest shelf of the Sea of Azov, encountered an estimated 350 Bcf of gas. The drilling objective was Cretaceous sandstones, with a planned TD of 1,700 m.
Bottom Line: We see a flurry of activity in Ukraine, with a $735 million Black Sea commitment by Exxon, an unexpected 100 million barrel oil find in the Poltava region and new estimates that the country could achieve annual gas production of 45 billion cubic meters by 2020.
Analysis: First, Ukraine’s state-run oil and gas company Naftogaz on 11 July announced the discovery of an oil field in the eastern/central Poltava region that reportedly contains some 13 million tons of oil, or 100 million barrels of oil. This is the biggest oil find in Ukraine in a decade and a half. The Budishchansko-Chutovskoye oil field is fully owned by Naftogaz, and is the only field fully owned by the state-run company.
The news for Ukraine gets even better this week, though. Exxon Mobil Corp is ready to invest $735 million to drill two deep-water wells offshore Ukraine in the Black Sea ($335 million in a signing bonus for the government and a $400 million commitment for seismic surveys and drilling). This is an amazing show of confidence by Exxon in Ukraine’s Black Sea.
Finally, ExxonMobil has given Ukraine another public boost with a new estimate that the country’s onshore and offshore gas reserves could help it reach production of 45 billion cubic meters by 2020.
Recommendation: We suggest very closely monitoring Exxon’s progress as it prepares to explore in Ukraine’s Black Sea, in the deep marine Skifiske gas field. (Right…
Brief time line of Ukraine and Russian engagement and a possible why it happened at all
1) Gas some oil found of the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, Jul 19, 2013
2) Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014
So the coup starts 6 months after finding Gas. The coup puts Zelensky etal in power. Zelensky starts barowing money, and the West starts building up Ukraine's military so it can take back the republics of Lugansk Donetsk and Crimea.
My question since the SMO is why and what collateral the Ukraine had to borrow so much from the IMF? Why did the IMF loan any money to the already deeply in debt Ukraine. Why is the US (as you mention, an unreasonable hatred for Russia) so heavily invested in support of the Ukraine? Why is the EU shooting itself in the foot regarding energy? None of this made any sense to me.
Unless the EU was told by US and Ukraine that all the gas they would ever need is in the gas field off the Ukraine coast. Then it makes some kind of sense what is happening. Support the Ukraine and make an EU member after deafting Russia and the gas is the EUs. Also helps explain why the US is all dug in and NATO/EU too as well as UK in defeating Russia. Without the pipe dream of Ukraineian Gas none of this makes any sense to me.
Ukraine ‘discovers’ vast gas deposit…already found in the 1980s
A Ukrainian exploration vessel has 'discovered' a huge gas field in the Black Sea. However, it turns out the field was already found by the Soviet Union 30 years ago.
"The fact that Ukraine once again began to search for oil and gas on the shelf of the Black Sea indicates a titanic shift in exploration work by the country. According to our estimates, gas reserves amounting to at least 40 billion cubic meters in an area of 7,000 square meters," said Ukrainian Minister for Mineral Resources Nikolay Boyarkin.
According to Boyarkin, Ukraine has enough resources to satisfy its gas needs and can produce it on its own.
However, it turns out the deposits near Snake Island in the Black Sea were discovered in the 1980s by Soviet explorers. Moreover, the rights for these resources have been disputed by Ukraine and Romania, and in 2009 the International Court of Justice ruled for Romania, leaving Kiev with only 12 miles around the island.
The background and implications of the 2014 far-right coup in Kiev, which overthrew the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, is critical for understanding the current Ukraine-Russia war. This coup was openly supported by US and European imperialism and implemented primarily by far-right shock troops such as the Right Sector and the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party.
It represented the temporary culmination of long-standing efforts by US imperialism to install a puppet regime on the borders of Russia and brought the world a major step closer to a war between the largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia. Ukraine has since been systematically built up as a launching pad for a NATO war against Russia.
Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union.Wikipedia
Date:November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014 (year, 3month, week and day)
After the 2014 coup in Kyiv, the people of the peninsula voted in a referendum to re-join Russia, a decision that most NATO members have not recognised.
The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan", or "Euromaidan" – were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych. The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence.
Ukraine's government changed its relations toward Russia after the latter illegally annexed Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, through a non-recognised referendum, announced on 27 February 2014, and held on gunpoint on 16 March 2014. The UN described it as not valid and stated that it could not serve as a basis for any change in the status of the peninsula. In its turn, the EU continues to strongly condemn this violation of international law and has responded by imposing restrictive measures against the Russian Federation.
How and why the U.S. Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
June 4, 2018 by Eric Zuesse
This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014. Ukraine’s replacing its democratically elected neutralist Government in February 2014, by a rabidly anti-Russian Government, was a violent event, which produced many corpses. It’s presented in The West as having been a ‘revolution’ instead of a coup; but whatever it was, it certainly generated the ‘new Cold War’ (the economic sanctions and NATO buildup on Russia’s borders); and, to know whether it was a coup, or instead a revolution, is to know what actually started the ‘new Cold War’, and why. So, this is historically very important.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine’s Donbass region to “defend people” there against government forces, stressing that Moscow has “no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory.”
...
In 2014, Ukraine’s two regions of Donetsk and Lugansk – collectively known as the Donbass – were turned into self-proclaimed republics by ethnic Russians, leading to a bloody conflict between the government forces and the armed separatists.
The conflict worsened following a wave of protests in Ukraine that led to the overthrow of a democratically-elected pro-Russia government, which was later replaced with a Western-backed administration. The majority in those areas refused to endorse the new administration.
More than 14,000 people have been killed so far.
Ukraine, as well as the European Union (EU) and the United States, claims that Russia has a hand in the conflict in the Donbass. Moscow denies the allegation.
On Monday, Putin signed a decree recognizing the breakaway Lugansk and Donetsk regions as independent republics. The recognition followed an address in which he referred to eastern Ukraine as “ancient Russian lands” being “managed by foreign powers.”
Then there is Gonzo Lira, one of the best observers of the Ukrain/SMO to be found and he is funny. He is also Pro Russian. Mostly this post if from the Russian side as it is easy to get the Wests point of view.
he Macro Picture: Gonzalo Lira on the Ukraine conflict’s broader contours and implications for all sides
The controversial commentator dissects the depths of the West's mistakes in its malign strategy toward Russia, but their arrogance is blinding them to the inevitable consequences.
This operation did little to damage the Russian economy, which continues to grow. It DID push Russia to a closer relationship with the BRICS, who now control an even larger section of the fossil fuel sector. Meanwhile, Germans are suffering with other parts of Europe, whose personal spending power has been crippled by heating costs. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to stop sticking our nose in places where it doesn’t belong.
Did the pipes really get broken? Funny how they said the "bombing" didn't damage all of the pipes. Hmmm.
Meanwhile, Russia is paying Ukraine to transport gas to Europe despite being in a "war" against Ukraine.....
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary/
I have to say I thought it is very easy to say that the link is broken and provide a photo of bubbling seas.
Which could be Joe Biden farting in his swimming pool. :)
Anyway, haven't they got lengths of pipe to replace damaged sections?
Easier though to turn off the gas and say 'Ooh, the one in the braces, he done it!'.
The “Empire” does not exist and has never existed. Any empire.
There are only particular people who group together (formally or not, for their own sake or under the false premise of acting for or on behalf of larger groups, like nations or countries).
These people tend to define the so-called laws and secure them with enforcement and penalties - which are not suprahuman or objective of of any higher order. All laws are aligned to keep the isolation of those who can “manage” others from those would prefer living a quiet life without being disturbed and without disturbing others.
With enough whistleblowing efforts, FOIA requests and true journalism, sooner or later documents, interviews and facts come to the surface which prove that we - as a society - don’t know what “law” means and we don’t care. Decision-making groups (aka the “Empire”) do whatever they want, not asking anyone, disregarding common sense, the rule of the law which they define themselves, openly violating international relations. Nobody there is interested in keeping the standards of “ecology”, “environmental care”, “justice”, “national sovereignty”, “primum non nocere” or any other catchy phrase used to generate $$ trillions in free, non-taxable, unaccountable money flows to individual pockets of particular people and their “families”.
AD 2024, we are equal to the fantasy images of the games of the thrones, pre-civilized invasions and forceful taking of the living space of other nations.
Is it good? Or bad? It is what it is. Apparently, we - as a community - don’t know any other way of living. We don’t know and don’t accept peaceful coexistence - the whole history is proof of this, every year, every month, every day. Arts and humanities are only a fleeting brake between invasions, attacks, false flags, Trojan horses, colonial conquests or, in general, illegal actions aimed at depriving others of what they have.
Where does it start? At home. Like anything else. We all are being “brought up” within certain packages of rules and guidelines, originally (probably) intended to make a life in a commune easier. Then, something cracks within us and we forget all beautiful stories. We love children only when they are helpless and completely subordinate to our will, beautiful newborns. As soon as they can walk and provide useful work, we destroy them and mold into useful slaves. We don’t teach them the basics of human relationships, the timeless morale and ethics, we don’t educate them about falling in love, building the relationship and ending it with dignity, if such need arises. We leave our own children helpless in the face of Life. No wonder that many of these children will grow into becoming tyrants, master manipulators who will skilfully build groups of impact who will mercilessly exploit others. No civilization there.
But this is not any “empire”. These are all particular individuals who have names and are identifiable as individual persons, with all the interesting characteristics of psychological analysis. They - we - all come from the same place, Home, and it is there where we are NOT being taught how to live in peaceful coexistence with other people.
Why is it important? Because we are here for a very short time. 50, 60, 70 years for the fortunate ones. This time limit for us to become human will expire much much sooner than we think. In a sense, it is amazing how much destruction, hatred, damage and human injury we are able to leave behind when the time comes to make the final settlement. And equally amazing how few and scarce good deeds we are able to do during our lifetime. Especially when we are in positions of power and making decisions for others.
But this is not any “empire”. This is what we are, you and me, particular individuals with specific personal characteristics.
Does Seymour Hersh have ulterior motives? Is he a "Journalist" or a Limited Hang-out cover provider, with unknown masters and a different agenda?
I see the main motive for the destruction of Nord Stream as being to weaken the growing Peace in Central Europe. When the pipeline constructions from Russia to Europe began, many people were very happy. Such mutually beneficial trade made future European Wars much less likely.
Who really benefited from the pipeline destruction? Is there an entity that hates both Germany and Russia? NATO springs immediately to mind; Alliances between Germany and Russia would negate the Global ambitions of this military bureaucracy. But, I think that answer is incomplete.
I suspect that Global Zionism is a far better fit for The Perpetrator. This group exhibits 'Means, Motive, and Opportunity' with their trans national connections and influence in ever country.
Here is an amusing take from Jimmy Dore on what Putin said to Tucker (satire):
https://rumble.com/v4dj0rn-hilarious-aussie-dub-of-putin-interview-w-tucker.html
Priceless, absolutely priceless!
There is a bit more involved that is not at all obvious. But Gaza and Ukraine have more in common that you may think. What follows is a time line I created in 2022 to understand why the US would encroach on Russia, when the US almost went to war with USSR via Cuban missile crisis.
___________
July 2013 Ukraine Black Sea Gas, Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014,
Feb 24, 2022 special military operation declared by Russia in Ukraine Donbas
Good day all,
A time line for the current Ukraine and SMO of Russia.
1) Gas some oil found off the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, Jul 19, 2013
2) Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014
So the coup starts 6 months after finding Gas. The coup puts Zelensky etal in power. Zelensky starts borrowing money, and the West starts building up Ukraine's military so it can take back the republics of Lugansk Donetsk and Crimea.
Since the Russian SMO what collateral does the Ukraine have to borrow so much from the IMF? Why did the IMF loan any money to the already deeply in debt Ukraine? Why is the US so heavily invested in support of the Ukraine? Why is the EU shooting itself in the foot regarding energy? None of this made any sense to me.
Unless the EU was told by US and Ukraine that all the gas they would ever need is in the gas field off the Ukraine coast. Then it makes some kind of sense what is happening. Support Ukraine and make it an EU member after defeating Russia and the gas is the EUs. Also helps explain why the US is all dug in and NATO/EU too as well as UK in defeating Russia. Without the pipe dream of Ukrainian Gas none of this makes any sense to me. Links follow.
July 2013 https://www.offshore-mag.com/drilling-completion/article/16791765/ukraine-black-sea-gas-discovery-reported
Ukraine Black Sea gas discovery reported
Nov. 6, 2006
The first well drilled by Chornomornaftogaz and Shelton Canada in the Black Sea near Odessa discovered gas, according to reports from the area.
KIEV, Ukraine -- The first well drilled by Chornomornaftogaz and Shelton Canada in the Black Sea near Odessa discovered gas, according to reports from the area.
The Biryuchya Zakhidnyy 1, 50 km offshore on the northwest shelf of the Sea of Azov, encountered an estimated 350 Bcf of gas. The drilling objective was Cretaceous sandstones, with a planned TD of 1,700 m.
***
Ukraine: Unexpected Oil Find, Major Gas Interest
By Editorial Dept - Jul 19, 2013, 10:44 PM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Ukraine-Unexpected-Oil-Find-Major-Gas-Interest.html
Bottom Line: We see a flurry of activity in Ukraine, with a $735 million Black Sea commitment by Exxon, an unexpected 100 million barrel oil find in the Poltava region and new estimates that the country could achieve annual gas production of 45 billion cubic meters by 2020.
Analysis: First, Ukraine’s state-run oil and gas company Naftogaz on 11 July announced the discovery of an oil field in the eastern/central Poltava region that reportedly contains some 13 million tons of oil, or 100 million barrels of oil. This is the biggest oil find in Ukraine in a decade and a half. The Budishchansko-Chutovskoye oil field is fully owned by Naftogaz, and is the only field fully owned by the state-run company.
The news for Ukraine gets even better this week, though. Exxon Mobil Corp is ready to invest $735 million to drill two deep-water wells offshore Ukraine in the Black Sea ($335 million in a signing bonus for the government and a $400 million commitment for seismic surveys and drilling). This is an amazing show of confidence by Exxon in Ukraine’s Black Sea.
Finally, ExxonMobil has given Ukraine another public boost with a new estimate that the country’s onshore and offshore gas reserves could help it reach production of 45 billion cubic meters by 2020.
Recommendation: We suggest very closely monitoring Exxon’s progress as it prepares to explore in Ukraine’s Black Sea, in the deep marine Skifiske gas field. (Right…
Brief time line of Ukraine and Russian engagement and a possible why it happened at all
1) Gas some oil found of the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, Jul 19, 2013
2) Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014
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So the coup starts 6 months after finding Gas. The coup puts Zelensky etal in power. Zelensky starts barowing money, and the West starts building up Ukraine's military so it can take back the republics of Lugansk Donetsk and Crimea.
My question since the SMO is why and what collateral the Ukraine had to borrow so much from the IMF? Why did the IMF loan any money to the already deeply in debt Ukraine. Why is the US (as you mention, an unreasonable hatred for Russia) so heavily invested in support of the Ukraine? Why is the EU shooting itself in the foot regarding energy? None of this made any sense to me.
Unless the EU was told by US and Ukraine that all the gas they would ever need is in the gas field off the Ukraine coast. Then it makes some kind of sense what is happening. Support the Ukraine and make an EU member after deafting Russia and the gas is the EUs. Also helps explain why the US is all dug in and NATO/EU too as well as UK in defeating Russia. Without the pipe dream of Ukraineian Gas none of this makes any sense to me.
***
https://www.rt.com/business/370226-ukraine-gas-black-sea/
Ukraine ‘discovers’ vast gas deposit…already found in the 1980s
A Ukrainian exploration vessel has 'discovered' a huge gas field in the Black Sea. However, it turns out the field was already found by the Soviet Union 30 years ago.
"The fact that Ukraine once again began to search for oil and gas on the shelf of the Black Sea indicates a titanic shift in exploration work by the country. According to our estimates, gas reserves amounting to at least 40 billion cubic meters in an area of 7,000 square meters," said Ukrainian Minister for Mineral Resources Nikolay Boyarkin.
According to Boyarkin, Ukraine has enough resources to satisfy its gas needs and can produce it on its own.
However, it turns out the deposits near Snake Island in the Black Sea were discovered in the 1980s by Soviet explorers. Moreover, the rights for these resources have been disputed by Ukraine and Romania, and in 2009 the International Court of Justice ruled for Romania, leaving Kiev with only 12 miles around the island.
https://www.rt.com/russia/532759-ukraine-merkel-gas-fleet/
22 Aug, 2021
‘Ukraine must be ready’: Merkel tells Kiev EU won’t be using Russian gas by 2046 – Zelensky wants weapons & help to build up navy
_____________________________________________________________
Euromaidan November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014
https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/event/2014-coup-ukraine
The 2014 coup in Ukraine
The background and implications of the 2014 far-right coup in Kiev, which overthrew the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, is critical for understanding the current Ukraine-Russia war. This coup was openly supported by US and European imperialism and implemented primarily by far-right shock troops such as the Right Sector and the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party.
It represented the temporary culmination of long-standing efforts by US imperialism to install a puppet regime on the borders of Russia and brought the world a major step closer to a war between the largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia. Ukraine has since been systematically built up as a launching pad for a NATO war against Russia.
***
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2014+Euromaidan+coup&ia=web
Euromaidan
Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union.Wikipedia
Date:November 21, 2013 – 23 February 2014 (year, 3month, week and day)
***
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/coup-in-ukraine-in-2014
After the 2014 coup in Kyiv, the people of the peninsula voted in a referendum to re-join Russia, a decision that most NATO members have not recognised.
The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan", or "Euromaidan" – were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych. The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence.
Ukraine's government changed its relations toward Russia after the latter illegally annexed Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, through a non-recognised referendum, announced on 27 February 2014, and held on gunpoint on 16 March 2014. The UN described it as not valid and stated that it could not serve as a basis for any change in the status of the peninsula. In its turn, the EU continues to strongly condemn this violation of international law and has responded by imposing restrictive measures against the Russian Federation.
***
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/
How and why the U.S. Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
June 4, 2018 by Eric Zuesse
This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014. Ukraine’s replacing its democratically elected neutralist Government in February 2014, by a rabidly anti-Russian Government, was a violent event, which produced many corpses. It’s presented in The West as having been a ‘revolution’ instead of a coup; but whatever it was, it certainly generated the ‘new Cold War’ (the economic sanctions and NATO buildup on Russia’s borders); and, to know whether it was a coup, or instead a revolution, is to know what actually started the ‘new Cold War’, and why. So, this is historically very important.
***
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/02/24/677439/Russia-Putin-Ukraine-Donbass-US-NATO
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine’s Donbass region to “defend people” there against government forces, stressing that Moscow has “no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory.”
...
In 2014, Ukraine’s two regions of Donetsk and Lugansk – collectively known as the Donbass – were turned into self-proclaimed republics by ethnic Russians, leading to a bloody conflict between the government forces and the armed separatists.
The conflict worsened following a wave of protests in Ukraine that led to the overthrow of a democratically-elected pro-Russia government, which was later replaced with a Western-backed administration. The majority in those areas refused to endorse the new administration.
More than 14,000 people have been killed so far.
Ukraine, as well as the European Union (EU) and the United States, claims that Russia has a hand in the conflict in the Donbass. Moscow denies the allegation.
On Monday, Putin signed a decree recognizing the breakaway Lugansk and Donetsk regions as independent republics. The recognition followed an address in which he referred to eastern Ukraine as “ancient Russian lands” being “managed by foreign powers.”
https://www.conservapedia.com/2022_Special_Military_Operation_in_Ukraine_-_Donbas_cauldron
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2022/09/gilbert-doctorow-from-special-military-operation-to-open-war-significance-of-the-referendums-in-donbas-kherson-and-zaporozhie/
Then there is Gonzo Lira, one of the best observers of the Ukrain/SMO to be found and he is funny. He is also Pro Russian. Mostly this post if from the Russian side as it is easy to get the Wests point of view.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2022/09/06/the-macro-picture-gonzalo-lira-on-the-ukraine-conflicts-broader-contours-and-implications-for-all-sides/
he Macro Picture: Gonzalo Lira on the Ukraine conflict’s broader contours and implications for all sides
The controversial commentator dissects the depths of the West's mistakes in its malign strategy toward Russia, but their arrogance is blinding them to the inevitable consequences.