Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU

Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript

Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup

BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict

Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians

Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.

The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda

The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video

WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know

Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem

The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences

Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?

Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War

Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.

Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

Previously:

NATO expansion:

George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner

Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia

Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements

Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

NATO in general:

The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World

CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance

Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”

Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism

Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You’re still pretending this war started in February 2022, despite knowing better.

Yeah it started in 2014 when Russia attacked Crimea.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_coup_d%27etat

The coup happened first in Feb 2014. Crimea succeeded and was annexed in March 2014. Crimea in 2014 was 68% ethnic Russians, with only 16% Ukrainian language speakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnicities_and_languages

Crimean leadership attempted to create an independent republic, but Crimea instead became an autonomous region in Ukraine in 1992. Ukraine abolished the constitution of Crimea in 1995 and allowed the Ukrainian central government to veto the Crimean parliament's chosen prime minister.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Crimea

So the far right uprising and coup is where this started. Then the occupation and civil war on Donbas started shortly after this in April 2014. The majority ethnic Russian oblasts did not wish to be persecuted by the western Ukrainian banderites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas