Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org Aug 18, 2025
A totally transparent blatant lie has been turned into a truth throughout the Western world. The lie is that Russia invaded Ukraine. I will provide the factual history which is easy to verify.
When Washington overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014 and installed a puppet, Washington relied on the Banderites to push the government into hostility with the Russian settled areas of Ukraine, areas such as Crimea and Donbas, that originally were part of Russia. Whether or not the Banderites, followers of Stepan Bandera are neo-Nazis, they are certainly hostile to Russians.
The conflict in Ukraine began in 2014 with street assaults on Russians in Donbas and government attempts to ban the use of the Russian language and other prohibitions placed on the Russian areas. These street assaults soon grew into artillery attacks on Donbas towns and occupation of Donbas territory by Ukrainian militias sporting Nazi insignia. To protect themselves, Donbas formed into two independent republics–Luhansk and Donetsk–and formed paramilitaries to defend themselves.
In 2014 Donetsk and Luhansk voted overwhelmingly to be reabsorbed into Russia like Crimea, but Putin refused. Instead, Putin relied on the Minsk Agreement, which Ukraine and the independent republics signed, and which Germany and France were supposed to enforce. The agreement, sponsored by Russia, kept Donbas in Ukraine but provided some autonomy, such as independent police and courts to protect the rights of the Russian inhabitants. Putin naively relied on the Minsk Agreement, which the chancellor of Germany and president of France later said was used to deceive Putin while the US built and equipped a large Ukrainian army.
By late 2021 this army was prepared to invade Donbas, much of which was already under Ukrainian occupation, and forcibly reincorporate Donbas into Ukraine without any autonomy. Faced with the abuse and possible slaughter of Russian people, Putin and his foreign minister Lavrov tried during December 2021-February 2022 to obtain a mutual security agreement with the West that would exclude Ukraine from NATO membership and contribute to mutual security by normalizing relations between Russia and the West. The Biden regime, NATO, and the EU flatly refused. The conflict followed this refusal.
Seeing the writing on the wall and unable to avoid it, Russia gave official recognization to the Donbas republics. This allowed Donetsk and Luhansk to request Russia to come to their aid, which Putin did at the last minute eight years too late. As Russia was invited into Donbas, Russia did not even invade Donbas, much less Ukraine.
Putin designated the Russian intervention a “special military operation” limited to clearing Ukrainian troops from Russian areas. Seven months into the military intervention on September 30, 2022, Russia reincorporated the Russian areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson into Russia. The ground fighting has been limited to clearing Ukrainian troops from territory that is again part of Russia.
Ask yourselves how and why did the truth get replaced by a lie? The answer is that those who profit from war provide the war propaganda.
Now ask why does it matter? The answer is that propaganda is a barrier to understanding and to a peaceful diplomatic solution to a conflict that can easily spin out of control into a wider war.
The propaganda that the evil-dictator-war-criminal-Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the first step in reconstruction the Soviet Empire places restraints on Trump and Putin’s ability to put East-West relations on a less dangerous footing. Already the Western whore media is screaming that Trump is selling out Ukraine, that Trump is selling out Europe, that Trump is putty in Putin’s hands. These and other such ignorant slogans will be used by the Zionist neoconservatives and US military/security complex to drive wedges between Trump and his supporters. Americans have been indoctrinated to think of Russia as the enemy for 75 years. The belief is institutionalized.
Progress toward peaceful relations requires truthful reporting and correction of established beliefs that are false. Can this be achieved when the well-placed neoconservative supporters of US hegemony are defending their interest, and the military/security complex is determined to protect its power and profit? Trump can expect little help from the media. Naive Russians should not get carried away with their hopes for an accommodation with the West. Powerful barriers are in the way of Russian hopes, and Russians have no means of removing the barriers. It is doubtful that Trump does.
Now ask yourselves a final question? Why is it PCR who is making the case for common sense and for truth? Why isn’t it the US foreign policy community, the Kremlin, the Chinese, the Russian media, the Western media, the German government, the British government, the government of India? Why aren’t Trump’s supporters making the case? I am only one voice easily shouted down as a “Putin agent/dupe” by the Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and the rest of the whore media and a plethora of internet sites sponsored by war-mongers. The normalization of relations between the West and Russia will take many voices. Where are those voices?
Note: The whores at the BBC and the rest of the presstitute media incorrectly report that Russia’s restoration of Crimea, Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to Russian citizenship is illegal. The restoration of Russian citizenship is completely legal under the international rules of self-determination. There is no effort on the part of Crimea, Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson to return to Ukraine.
school children given warning to ‘avoid migrants’ on way home
Story by James Knuckey • senior Tory Robert Jenrick claims children have been told to avoid migrant hot-spots when travelling home from school. The Shadow Justice Secretary made the comments after visiting protesters outside a migrant hotel in Epping, Essex, on Sunday.
He said one parent shared her daughter’s school had written to her “suggesting children avoid certain parts of town on their walk home”. He also accused the Government of not listening to the people of Epping which has become the focal point of a series of protests. Demonstrations started last month after an asylum seeker who was housed at The Bell Hotel in the town was charged with trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl. he had also been accused of ” bumstroking” other school girls Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, denies the allegations and is due to stand trial later this month.
Writing in The Sun, Mr Jenrick said: “I spoke to teens, parents and grandparents – all rightly concerned about the safety of their community.
“These weren’t racists or far-right thugs – they were mums in pink T-shirts with Union Jack bunting.
The bloody migrant gangland feud that left a young girl with a bullet in her brain has seen at least a dozen gun deaths over the last 16 years, the Mirror can reveal.
They include the murder of all three of the brothers who led the Tottenham Turks gang and a string of family members belonging to the rival Hackney Black Bombers group. It comes after a leading member of the gang targeted in the shooting was gunned down earlier this month in an attack that a source suspects is “part of the same war”. We have catalogued the brutal violence after drug dealer Javon Riley, 33, was today found guilty of helping a gunman to carry out an attack that left a nine-year-old girl fighting for her life. Riley, from Tottenham, north London, was convicted at the Old Bailey of three charges of attempted murder and a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to the nine-year-old girl. Three men in the target group were hit by separate shots. Kenan Aydogdu, 45, Mustafa Kiziltan, 38, and Nasser Ali, 43, all survived the attack.
all migrant criminals must be deported
A totally correct analysis, and well said there! I could only add that in September 2022 the four Donbass mini-states held elections and again voted by huge majorit8ies to leave Ukraine and join Russia, which then happened.
Someone once described propaganda as ‘the dark art of convincing people they can pick up a turd by the clean end’. With most people lies can fool them for a while, but as more lies are applied to sustain the lie it becomes apparent they’re lying, and probably from the beginning. The problem is when all forms of media repeat it–press, TV news, radio, TV dramas, films etc–when all else fails they never diclose they’ve failed then the tell truth, they just lie and deceive forever. No truth can then be allowed to get through at all, even when the population knows what they’re up to. Many people believe everybody else is still being fooled by it even if most are not, their rationale for that conclusion being if the media say it masses of people must be believing it, and this way they can keep the fiction alive indirectly by playing on different emotions.
THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF BRITAIN 450 word count
100 years ago Britain ruled a quarter of the earth and gave the world the industrial revolution among much else,
but politicians have worked hard to wreck it all,
“The war will be over by Christmas, and there will be a land of jobs milk and honey for all”
So said Winston Churchill urging British men to join up and fight “the Hun” and stop foreign feet from walking on British shores.
For those traumatized men lucky enough to come home after Churchills W W II to a country in ruin, with homes bombed and families broken up, the first thing the government
did was to import in thousands of Caribbean men to compete for the same few houses and jobs left.
When we look now most towns and villages have lost the church, public transport, the pub, the post office the police station and the village shop,
many are just empty dormitory towns, and our neighbours are all foreign strangers to us in a desert of anonymous square boxes.
But was this part of the agenda or just plain coincidence ? The psychologist Carl Jung said there is no such thing as coincidence, and that everything conforms to a plan.
The 1930s saw deep financial hardship all across the land, with banks witholding peoples money, and people living on the streets with hunger marches during this “great depression”
The men were only too glad to join the army, be fed and clothed and do another war for the government.
This was the same game plan used for W.W.1 and government racism in blaming foreigners is always the next step after any economic crisis, and
we witness now the daily targetting of our own people as ” right wing thugs ”
But we are now entering another “great depression” where again the banks are not releasing money into the system to prepare us for their W.W.III
The streets are filled again to bursting point with foreign nationals competing with British people for jobs and homes, and soon for food,
many elderly British nationals die of hypothermia each year, because they cant fill out 56 page benefit forms, saving the government annually 5 billion pounds,
in what is politically called ‘clawback funds’
British children are now top of the European tables for malnutrition, while foreign nationals are claiming for much British people cant,
government institutionalized racism for war was used against Germany, Iraq and now against Iran Lebanon Palestine and Syria.
Part of the agreement for Rothschild to fund Britain in W.W.II was for Britain to disband its empire, and the U.K has been broken up into its component countries,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland all given independence and plans exist to break Britain into 8 regional zones, under a political czar.
Australia killed off its original inhabitants the aboriginals to steal their land,
New Zealand did the same with the Maoris,
America did it with the Red Indians
and jews are doing it in palestine
and the plans are similar here for British nationals to be eradicated as incomers are encouraged in.
We are betrayed again by our own politicians, who have done more damage to the country than Hitler and Stalin,
the land of jobs milk and honey is not for our people.
The English Anglo Saxon white heterosexual Christian, is indeed an endangered species,
and are being ethnically cleansed at the rate of one every three minutes, Britain wake up.
M.S King pointed this out in his book ‘The War Against Putin’.
This led me to stop my subscription to Heritage & Destiny for a while ( a British Patriot publication).
Ukraine militias sporting Nazi insignia, no, Bolshevik Jews wearing Nazi insignia. It’s not us crucifying and torturing Russian prisoners of war and civilians, it’s the Dirty Nazies.
The media is the real criminal here. They have lied about everything for the last decade. Luckly, they have all been vaccinated. can no longer have children and will all die 20% earlier.