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Dear Reader,
“I rarely agree with President Trump,” begins academic Alan J. Kuperman, writing in The Hill — “but his latest controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true.”
Kind heaven, can it be?
Has a professor of Global Policy Studies at the University of Texas… scribbling in a mainstream, even leftward-listing publication… conceded that the president is correct about Ukraine?
As well expect the cops to declare for the robbers. As well expect the saints to declare for the devil.
Yet the impossible has evidently occurred.
About the president’s controversial statements, Professor Kuperman writes:
- They seem preposterous only because western audiences have been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Ukraine for more than a decade. It is time to set the record straight on three key points that illuminate why Ukrainians and former President Joe Biden — not merely Russian President Vladimir Putin — bear significant responsibility for the outbreak and perpetuation of war in Ukraine.
What? I Thought Only the Russians Spewed Disinformation
The mainstream media has informed us — for years and years — that only the great deceptionist Putin issues disinformation.
The Russian fiend says the sky is blue in color?
Do not believe your deceiving eyes, they would argue. If Putin says the sky is blue, you can be certain the sky is a hue other than blue.
We were told only the United States and its European understrappers were oracles of authentic information.
Only if Western authorities claim the sky is blue can you believe it.
Now this learned alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of the Johns Hopkins University, of Harvard University — a highly sober and judicious fellow by all reasonable standards — claims it is “western audiences” that have in fact “been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Ukraine.”
The West Facilitated a Coup in Ukraine
The professor referred to three key points that illuminate why Ukrainians and former President Joe Biden — not merely Russian President Vladimir Putin — bear significant responsibility for the outbreak and perpetuation of war in Ukraine.
In the order listed:
- First, as recently documented by overwhelming forensic evidence, and affirmed even by a Kyiv court, it was Ukrainian right-wing militants who started the violence in 2014 that provoked Russia’s initial invasion of the country’s southeast including Crimea. Back then, Ukraine had a pro-Russia president, Viktor Yanukovych, who had won free and fair elections in 2010 with strong support from ethnic Russians in the country’s southeast.
Pro-West elements — very likely with the assistance of the United States intelligence services — toppled Mr. Yanukovych from power.
Thus the heretic Professor Kuperman explains that:
- Putin responded by deploying troops to Crimea and weapons to the southeast Donbas region on behalf of ethnic Russians who felt their president had been undemocratically overthrown. While this backstory does not justify Russia’s invasion, it explains that it was hardly “unprovoked.”
Yet the mainstream media has labeled it, without cease, without let, “Russia’s unprovoked aggression.”
Zelensky Violated the Minsk Accords
Please continue, sir:
- Second, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky contributed to a wider war by violating peace deals with Russia and seeking NATO military aid and membership. The deals, known as Minsk 1 and 2, had been negotiated under his predecessor President Petro Poroshenko in 2014 and 2015 to end fighting in the southeast and protect endangered troops.
- Ukraine was to guarantee Donbas limited political autonomy by the end of 2015, which Putin believed would be sufficient to prevent Ukraine from joining — or serving as a military base for — NATO. Regrettably, Ukraine refused for seven years to fulfill that commitment
- Zelensky instead increased weapons imports from NATO countries, which was the last straw for Putin… Intentionally or not, Zelensky had provoked Russian aggression, although that obviously does not excuse Moscow’s subsequent war crimes.
Biden Gave Zelensky “Green Light” to Defy Putin
And thirdly?
- Third, Joe Biden too contributed crucially to the escalation and perpetuation of fighting. In late 2021, when Putin mobilized forces on Ukraine’s border and demanded implementation of the Minsk deals, it seemed obvious that unless Zelensky relented, Russia would invade..
- Considering that Ukraine already was existentially dependent on U.S. military assistance, if President Biden had insisted that Zelensky comply with Putin’s request, it would have happened.
- Instead, Biden lamentably left the decision to Zelensky and pledged that if Russia invaded, the U.S. would respond “swiftly and decisively,” which Zelensky read as a green light to defy Putin.
- Had Trump been president, he likely would not have provided such a blank check, so Zelensky would have had little choice but to implement the Minsk deals to avert war.
This Guy Can Forget About Tenure!
Mr. Kuperman is technically an Associate Professor. Thus I do not know if he has been extended tenure.
If he has not been extended tenure, I hazard he will never be after this article’s publication.
He has — after all — aided and comforted the enemy.
The president is of course the enemy. And the professor’s colleagues will not likely let his treason pass unpunished.
Yet as I scan this fellow’s account, I am reminded of Lord Arthur Ponsonby’s 10 rules of propaganda.
Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871–1946.
Check, Check, Check…
His 10 rules of propaganda were:
- We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves.
- The other guy is solely responsible for this war.
- Our adversary’s leader is evil and looks evil.
- We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest.
- The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes.
- The enemy is using unlawful weapons.
- We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big.
- Intellectuals and artists support our cause.
- Our cause is sacred.
- Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.
Since Russia’s “unprovoked” assault on Ukraine in 2022, the Western newswires have distributed three or more of these propaganda items daily.
On some days, six or seven.
On others still, all 10.
I can cite endless examples in proof… yet the hourglass runs low.
Putin Has a Brain
Yet Mr. Putin’s critics claim his very words constitute proof that he is out to resurrect the Soviet Union:
“Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart.”
Yet they disregard the sentence that next came uttering from his mouth:
“Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.”
You may say what you will about Mr. Vladimir Putin.
Much of it may be sharply unflattering — and perhaps justly so.
Yet can you say Putin has no brains?
By all reasonable accounts you cannot.
Now look at his Western counterparts.
Can you say the same of them?
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
