U.S. proxy war on Russia in Ukraine is a war of aggression.

Relentless U.S. propaganda claiming "Putin!" is an evil dictator who woke up one day and invaded Ukraine to expand Russia's territory or grab Ukraine's natural resources is totally fictitious brainwashing.

Russia is the largest country on Earth. It spans 11 time zones and has vast untapped mineral wealth and other natural resources, each of which dwarf those of almost every other country on Earth.

The U.S. proxy war on Russia in Ukraine is an imperial war of aggression that began in 1994 when Bill Clinton broke the promise George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State Jim Baker, foreign minister of Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and others made to Mikael Gorbachev in 1990 not to expand NATO "one inch Eastward" in exchange for the USSR not contesting the reunification of Germany.

The U.S. has steadily expanded NATO towards Russia's border ever since and worked relentlessly to incorporate Ukraine into NATO despite only 20% of Ukrainians wanting Ukraine to join NATO in October, 2013.

In 2004, when Viktor Yanukovych, who opposed Ukraine joining NATO, won the presidency of Ukraine the first time, the U.S. staged the USAID, NED, IRI-backed Orange Revolution which overturned the second round of voting, which had given him his victory, and forced an unconstitutional third round that gave the presidency to U.S.-backed, pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko.

U.S. corporate deep-state mouthpiece media reported the lie repeated whenever "the wrong candidate" wins any democratic election across the world, that the 2004 presidential election vote that Mr. Yanukovych won was illegitimate.

In 2010, Mr. Yanukovych won the presidency of Ukraine again in an election the OSCE declared an "impressive display" of democratic elections.

In 2014, the U.S. used Banderite neo-Nazis as muscle to drive President Yanukovych out of office and out of the country one day after he agreed with the USAID- and other U.S. NGO-backed Maidan demonstration leaders to a power sharing agreement and early elections.

Mr. Yanukovych had incurred the ire of the U.S. by signing a law passed by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada in 2010 to formalize the neutrality implied in Ukraine's 1996 Constitution, and he incurred the wrath of Banderite Nazis by signing a law in 2012 granting minority linguistic rights to Russian-speaking Ukrainians, who comprised 30% of the population of Ukraine and 85% of the Donbas at the time, as well as to speakers of at least nine other minority-languages.

Civil war broke out in Ukraine in 2014 when ethnic-Russian Ukrainians rejected the coup government and Banderite Nazis attacked them, killing more than 40 demonstrators in Odessa on May 2 by lighting a building into which they had retreated on fire. This civil war was continuing 8 years later when Russia intervened militarily in 2022 to stop it, force Kiev to reject NATO membership, and demilitarize Ukraine.

In Sept., 2014, Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany negotiated the Minsk accords which were to end the violence in eastern Ukraine, but the ceasefire did not hold. In Feb, 2015, the same parties negotiated Minsk 2, which was approved unanimously by the UN Security Council. The terms were: no Ukraine membership in NATO, Ukraine retains all of its territory except Crimea, which had voted in a referendum in 2014 to join the Russian Federation, reinstatement of ethnic-Russians' linguistic, religious, and political rights, and limited autonomy for the Donbas.

Minsk 2 was never implemented by Kiev despite Volodymyr Zelensky being elected president of Ukraine in 2019 with 73% of the vote on a peace platform promising to implement Minsk.

When Zelensky took office, Verkhovna Rada deputy and Right Sector co-founder Dmitro Yarosh stated in an interview that "he will lose his life. It will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the revolution and war." Rada chairman and co-founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy reportedly echoed this threat, as did Tetiana Chornovol, a leader of the Maidan uprising, accusing Zelensky of being an agent of Yanukovych and calling for a new Maidan.

Neither the U.S., U.K., nor any other Western power offered to protect Zelensky and help him implement Minsk.

In 2022, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel, and Petro Poroshenko, the French, German, and Ukrainian negotiators of Minsk 2, all admitted publicly that none of them intended to implement Minsk and that it was a delaying tactic to buy time to build up Ukraine's military for war with Russia.

In Dec. 2021, before Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine, President Putin sent a draft treaty to Biden and NATO proposing a security architecture for Europe not predicated on hostility to Russia. Both recipients ignored his overture.

In Feb. 2022, three days after Russia's SMO began, President Putin invited Kiev to negotiate an end to the fighting. Six weeks later their negotiators initialed an agreement in Istanbul mediated by former prime minister Naftali Bennett of Israel essentially to implement Minsk. Boris Johnson flew to Kiev and told Zelensky not to sign and that the West would give him as much money and as many weapons as necessary to defeat Russia on the battlefield.

No one offered to protect Zelensky and his family from being murdered by the Nazis if he signed.

Russia cannot tolerate NATO in Ukraine potentially pointing nuclear-tipped missiles at its cities from less than 10 minutes away.

Russia does not want to conquer or rule anyone.

Those are the ambitions that drive the U.S., as evidenced by the endless coups, wars, proxy wars, dirty wars, and economic war (sanctions) it has been inflicting relentlessly in every corner of the globe since 1945 on countries whose leaders refuse to submit them to plunder by U.S. banks and corporations, killing millions of people and destroying entire societies.

Russia is defending itself against U.S. aggression and the stated aims of American planners to destroy the Russian state, balkanize Russia, and plunder its resources.

Please stop demonizing the irredeemably evil "Putin!".

Since he was first elected president in 1999, Mr. Putin has brought his country back from what Adam Curtis called the "Trauma Zone" into which neoliberal shock therapy imposed by Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin thrust Russia in the early 1990s, and he has freed the Russian economy from looting and domination by the oligarchs that shock therapy created.

In 2024, President Putin's Russia leapfrogged Germany and Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). He is roundly admired by Russia's population for his patriotism, sincerity, honesty, and formidable intellect; and Russian workers' standard of living has risen steadily under his leadership.

The U.S., by contrast, is owned and run by and for oligarchs and is in the terminal stages of totally cannibalizing itself to dominate the world militarily, economically, politically, and ideologically.

In a Feb. 12, 2025, speech to NATO's Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, Belgium, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth "unambiguously expressed" that "stark strategic realities" – namely "deterring [i.e., provoking] war with China" – necessitate that the U.S. hand the Ukraine front in the U.S.'s war on the world off to Europe in a "division of labor that maximizes our comparative advantages in Europe and Pacific respectively."