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The United States is now positioning itself as a “mediator” — in a conflict it arguably helped escalate. 🤯
In this eye-opening episode of The New Atlas, we explore:
🕵️ How the U.S. continues to shape global narratives while playing peacekeeper
The real story behind the war in Ukraine and the West's role
📉 Media manipulation, hidden agendas, and power politics exposed
🧠 What this means for global stability and geopolitical truth
💥 It's not just about war — it's about control, perception, and influence.
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00:00I have written another article for New Eastern Outlook. It is titled,
00:04U.S. Plays Mediator in Its Own War on Russia. And this is in response to this recent development.
00:12This is current U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, arch neocon, voluntarily included into
00:19the Trump administration, despite claiming to fight the deep state, a key facilitator of the
00:25deep state. And it says, U.S. will abandon Ukraine peace efforts within days if no progress made,
00:32Rubio warns. And down here it says, the United States could end its efforts on ending the
00:37Ukraine conflict within days if there are no signs of progress, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
00:41warned. If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on, he told reporters
00:47before departing Paris, where he had held high-level talks with European and Ukrainian officials. We
00:52need to determine very quickly now, and I'm talking about in a matter of days, whether or not this is
00:58doable, he said. And so he's talking as if the U.S. is some independent, neutral mediator
01:08between Russia and Ukraine. And the U.S. is trying to end this war, but both sides are being unreasonable,
01:17and they're just going to give up and wash their hands of everything within days if they cannot get
01:23some sort of deal. And the deal that they want is this ceasefire that U.S. Secretary of Defense,
01:31Pete Hegg said, back in February 12, 2025, laid out. European troops go in, they freeze the conflict,
01:40they double down on rebuilding, reorganizing the Ukrainian military. They themselves expand their
01:46military industrial base, the U.S. does as well. The U.S. goes off to go start a very similar war
01:52with China and the Asia-Pacific region, while Europe holds Russia in Ukraine, and also as the U.S.
02:01ramps up violence in the Middle East. So Russia is confined to Ukraine, cannot assist, say, Iran,
02:08as the U.S. prepares for war with Iran, and surely cannot help China if and when some sort of conflict
02:14breaks out in the Asia-Pacific region. This is exactly what they did to successfully overthrow
02:20Syria. They overextended Russia in Ukraine and Iran across the entire region, Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen,
02:31within Iran itself. And they created conditions which a previously lost proxy war. The U.S. lost the
02:38proxy war in Syria, but they had managed to freeze it. They were able to unfreeze it and finish it on
02:44their terms. So this is exactly what the U.S. is setting out to do, and that is what my article
02:49is about. So I'm going to just get right into it. I'm going to read it as usual, adding in any
02:54additional information when and if necessary, and also showing you all the sources that I used
02:59are cited while writing this article. So recent comments from current U.S. Secretary of State,
03:04Marco Rubio, has signaled Washington's intent to abandon peace efforts if progress isn't made between
03:10Russia and Ukraine. And I read from the CNN article what it said. This is framed as if the U.S. is
03:17serving as some sort of mediator between Russia and Ukraine. In reality, the U.S. is one of two
03:23primary parties to the conflict, the other being Russia with whom this war was provoked. The U.S.
03:30has been at war with Russia by proxy since the end of the Cold War, the two Chechen wars. This was the
03:37U.S. stirring up trouble within Russia's borders. During the Cold War, the war in Afghanistan,
03:45the war in Vietnam in many ways was a proxy war against the Soviet Union. So the U.S. war on Russia
03:52since the Cold War ended. This is what I'm going to talk about next. The U.S. has since the end of the
03:58Cold War invested billions of dollars in political interference within Ukraine. And this is not me
04:06guessing at this or baselessly accusing the U.S. of this. This is Victoria Nuland herself right here.
04:14This was December 19th, 2013. This is as they were setting up the Euromaidon violently overthrowing
04:22the elected government of Ukraine. And this was her speaking at this Ukraine in Washington, 2013,
04:29U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, addressed by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. And this is
04:36what she said. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians
04:43as they build democratic skills and institutions, as they promote civic participation and good
04:49governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations.
04:54We've invested over five billion dollars to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will
05:00ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine. Today, there are senior officials in
05:07the Ukrainian government, in the business community, as well as in the opposition, civil
05:13society, and the religious community who believe in this democratic and European future for their
05:18country. And they've been working hard to move their country and their president in the right
05:24direction. We urge the government, we urge the president to listen to these voices, to listen
05:32to the Ukrainian people, to listen to the Euromaidon, and take Ukraine forward.
05:38And did you notice the big chevron logo behind her and all of the other U.S. corporations listed
05:46on that backdrop? Because unelected corporate financier interests drive U.S. foreign policy.
05:53And that policy is to maintain American dominance over the entire planet so that no competition can
06:00arise, forcing these unelected corporate monopolies to, number one, compete, and number two, give up
06:09their share of global power and profits, which they always seek to maximize. It's very simple.
06:18So that is her admitting five billion dollars, to be precise, were invested in Ukraine's internal
06:25political affairs, a blatant violation of international law under the UN charter. All nations have their
06:32political independence protected by the UN charter. And so this is the U.S. openly, blatantly, bragging,
06:39about how much they have interfered in Ukraine's internal political affairs. And of course,
06:43I also mention this article from The Guardian, 2004. So even before 2013, 2014, successful regime
06:52change in Ukraine, the U.S. admitted that it had been deeply involved in trying to overthrow the
06:57Ukrainian government and other governments in Europe well before then. And as I've always pointed out,
07:04this article admits that the protest in Ukraine in 2004 was an American creation, a sophisticated and
07:11brilliantly conceived exercise in Western branding and mass marketing that in four countries in four
07:15years has been used to try to salvage rigged elections, topple unsavory regimes, which is just a euphemism
07:21for governments that don't obediently do what the U.S. says. Do not subordinate themselves to the U.S.
07:28maintain their sovereignty as is their right under international law. That is unacceptable. The U.S.
07:33will overthrow your government and replace it by a client regime they install into power and one
07:38that answers to the U.S. at the expense of whatever country was just overthrown. Funded and organized by
07:45the U.S. government deploying U.S. consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties,
07:49so this is bipartisan, doesn't matter if it's Republican or Democrat, Biden, Trump, Harris,
07:54doesn't matter. They're all on board with this. And U.S. non-government organizations, which are just
08:00organizations U.S. government funds as intermediaries to divert attention away from the U.S. government,
08:05the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot
08:11by. So overthrow Slobodan Milosevic and install a U.S. client regime there. Richard Miles,
08:16U.S. ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, the U.S. ambassador in Tbilisi,
08:22so he was in Belgrade and then he was in Tbilisi. He repeated the trick in Georgia,
08:28coaching Mikhail Sakisvili and how to bring down his opponents. And we remember 2003, the U.S.
08:36successfully overthrew the government of Georgia. They put Mikhail Sakisvili into
08:41power. They began reorganizing the Georgian military. And by 2008, they encouraged the
08:47Georgian military to attack Russian peacekeepers around South Ossetia. And it triggered this very
08:54short, devastating war that Russia won, prompting the U.S. to reset its relationship with Russia.
09:01In other words, to buy time so they could reset the trap again, this time instead of using Georgia,
09:07a very small country, using Ukraine, a much larger country with a larger population, a larger military,
09:14that the U.S. could do real serious damage if they repeated this trick again. That is exactly
09:18what they were trying to do, even as of 2004. Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the U.S.
09:26ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in Central America. So this isn't just
09:31Europe. This is everywhere, as I've pointed out over many years. Notably, in Nicaragua,
09:36organized a near identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hard man, Alexander Lukashenko. That one
09:41failed. So they're admitting that all of this, this is the U.S. This is the U.S. from A to Z, organizing
09:51these mobs, putting them out into the streets, overthrowing an elected government, a government that
09:56is independent from U.S. influence, and replacing it with a client regime installed into power by the
10:01U.S. itself. From 24, so that was 2004, and then successful regime change finally taking place in
10:092014, and that's what Victoria Nuland was talking about back in 2013. From 2014 onward, Ukraine was
10:16transformed, just like Georgia was from 2003 to 2008, into a military proxy of the United States, aimed
10:22specifically to threaten the Russian Federation, just as politically captured Georgia in 2003,
10:29was used to attack Russian peacekeeping forces in 2008. And as I have always pointed out,
10:36despite even to this day many people claiming Russia invaded Georgia, the EU conducted their own
10:41independence investigation, and they concluded that Georgia started war with Russia, EU backed report,
10:48right there. Reuters, that link will be in the video description below, and you can read that
10:52for yourself. The growing security threat this posed to Moscow, already revealed in the U.S. use of
11:00Georgia from 2003 to 2008, culminating in a military attack on Russian forces, precipitated the launching
11:09of Russia's February 2022 special military operation, and the subsequent fighting that has continued
11:14ever since, including, up to, and including today. A series of articles from the Western media itself has
11:19revealed over recent years, the degree to which the U.S. has not only politically captured Ukraine,
11:25but also institutionally captured its military intelligence agencies, reconfiguring them to operate
11:31as armed extensions of the United States along Ukraine's border with Russia, and even across it
11:38within Russia itself. And I've always talked about the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war,
11:43a U.S. proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as intermediaries. And I have said everything about
11:49that conflict is being determined in Washington, for Washington, not by the Ukrainians. They're just
11:58there to give the U.S. plausible deniability. That is the only reason they're using the Ukrainians,
12:04because they do not want to fight a war directly with Russia, because the U.S. and Russia are both
12:09nuclear powers that can escalate very quickly into a nuclear exchange. The whole purpose of fighting
12:16a war by proxy is to have your proxy suffer all of the costs, and any benefit that is left over is enjoyed
12:24by you. Among these admissions is the New York Times' February 2024 article titled,
12:31The Spy War, How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin, which admits, and it's this article right here,
12:38right here, The Spy War, How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin. For more than a decade,
12:42the U.S. has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for
12:48both countries encountering Russia. So this wasn't a product of Russia's invasion into Ukraine in 2022.
12:55The U.S. was already building up Ukraine as a threat to Russia, which is why Russia responded
13:01with the special military operation in the first place. And again, the West deliberately lies about
13:07this and portrays this as happening backwards. Russia invaded, then the U.S. came to aid Ukraine.
13:13And this is what Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration, this is a lie they're
13:18still trying to tell the public. A lie created under the Biden administration continued under the Trump
13:24administration. This article admits to a CIA-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight
13:32years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border. So the CIA is building bases along the
13:38border with Russia. This is a direct threat to Russia. If Russia was doing this to the United States,
13:44in Canada, it would be perceived as an act of war. Well, Russia perceived it as an act of war,
13:49and then they themselves acted. In response, the article would also admit around 2016, so long before
13:56the special military operation, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force. Now,
14:01a commando force are forces armed and trained to conduct lethal operations against a targeted military or
14:12nation or organization. It was known as unit 2245, which captured Russian drones and communications
14:20gear so that the CIA technicians could reverse engineer them and crack Moscow's encryption systems.
14:26One officer in that unit was Kirlo Bundanov, now the general leading Ukraine's military intelligence. And
14:33the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe,
14:40and in Cuba and other places where Russians have a large presence. So again, just like the US versus
14:47China, full spectrum war, direct war, proxy war, economic war, in every conceivable way. The US is also
14:58waging this type of conflict with Russia. While the New York Times tries to insist the CIA did not help
15:04Ukrainians conduct offensive lethal operations. It later admits CIA-trained Unit 2245 not only
15:12conducted lethal operations, but did so within Russian-held territory, claiming at the time the
15:18future head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency, General Bundanov, was a rising star in Unit 2245. This
15:26was being set up and trained by the CIA. He was known for daring operations behind enemy lines and had
15:32deep ties to the CIA. The agency had trained him and also taken the extraordinary step of sending him
15:39for rehabilitation to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after he was shot in the
15:44right arm during fighting in the Donbass. So the CIA was helping them carry out lethal operations despite
15:51claiming they didn't. The New York Times contradicts itself within the same article. Disguised in Russian
15:58uniforms, then Lieutenant Colonel Bundanov, like commandos across a narrow gulf and inflatable
16:03speedboats landing at night in Crimea. But an elite Russian commando unit was waiting for them.
16:08The Ukrainians fought back, killing several Russian fighters, including the son of a general,
16:13before retreating to the shoreline, plunging into the sea, and then swimming for hours to Ukrainian
16:18controlled territory. In other words, the U.S. was training, equipping, arming, and directing deadly
16:23operations out of Ukraine into Russian-held territory before Russia launched its 2022 special
16:30military operation. The U.S. was helping Ukraine kill Russians long before the special military operation
16:37began. Very important. I know I'm diving into this deeply and extensively, exhaustively,
16:46but it is important to understand that this is a U.S. war on Russia and the Trump administration,
16:53pretending as if they've tried to end the conflict, and it's just Ukraine and Russia are being so
16:58difficult. There's nothing else they can do. This was always part of the plan. Pretend to seek peace,
17:04dump it on Europe, who's going to send troops in to freeze the conflict, as U.S. Secretary of Defense
17:09BHAG said, all the way back in February 12th this year. The same article admitted that these CIA
17:15officers deployed to and overseeing operations in Ukraine began playing a central role after Russia
17:22launched its SMO in 2022. The New York Times would admit, within weeks, CIA had returned to Kyiv,
17:29and the agency sent in scores of new officers to help the Ukrainians. A senior U.S. official said of the
17:35CIA's sizable presence. Are they pulling triggers? No. Are they helping with targeting? Absolutely.
17:41So again, Ukraine would not be able to fight this war without U.S. assistance. The U.S. was choosing
17:48all of the targets, and they were just simply using the Ukrainians to hit them, because if they did it
17:53themselves, then it would be a direct war between the U.S. and Russia. And this article is bad enough,
17:59but the next one I'm going to cover in this article is much, much worse. Some of the CIA officers were
18:04deployed to Ukrainian bases. They reviewed lists of potential Russian targets that the Ukrainians
18:09were preparing to strike, comparing the information that the Ukrainians had with U.S. intelligence to
18:14ensure that it was accurate. Another, again, admitting that the Ukrainians would not be able
18:19to strike these targets without U.S. intelligence. Subsequent articles by the New York Times would expand
18:25upon just how deeply involved the U.S. has been in the fighting, making the war for all intents and
18:31purposes. An American war fought through the Ukrainians. So let's talk about Washington's
18:37war on Russia in Ukraine. A March 2025 New York Times article. This one here. And it's displaying
18:48a little bit weird in my browser. The partnership, the secret history of the war on Ukraine. This is
18:54the untold story of America's hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia's invading armies.
18:59But this was always obvious to myself and many other analysts following this from the very beginning.
19:05It was obvious the U.S. was involved in absolutely everything. It was a U.S. war on Russia fought
19:10through Ukraine. It was so obvious. And all the New York Times is doing is confirming everything that
19:15we all already knew by watching the fighting unfold on the battlefield. It's so much worse when you hear
19:23the New York Times actually admitting it, though, even when you already knew this. So this March 2025 New
19:30York Times article would explain that not only has the U.S. provided tens of billions of dollars worth of
19:36military equipment, weapons and ammunition, including, and this is a quote from the New York Times,
19:41half a billion rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades, 10,000 Javelin anti-armor weapons, 3,000 Stinger
19:49anti-aircraft systems, 272 howitzers, 76 tanks, 40 high mobility artillery rocket systems, they're
19:58talking about HIMARS, 20 MI-17 helicopters, and three Patriot air defense batteries. And a lot of the
20:05equipment that Europe was sending to Ukraine was made by the United States and being transferred to
20:11Ukraine. And that is what they have planned for the future as well, to expand that,
20:16using Europe as the new intermediary instead of Ukraine. So all of this weapons, ammunition,
20:24and equipment, but that the U.S. military itself has been and still is playing a central role in
20:30picking and striking at targets on both sides of the Ukrainian-Russian border. It admitted that it was
20:37U.S. intelligence used to carry out many of Ukraine's most successful attacks on Russian military
20:42headquarters, including at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, which had been under Russian control
20:48even before the 2014 U.S. overthrow of Ukraine and Crimea's subsequent reunification with Russia. So
20:55Russia already had an agreement with Ukraine long before any of this ever started.
21:00Its military was at Sevastopol. This naval base was Russian before any of this started. And so you can
21:08talk about, well, the CIA, the U.S. military, they were helping, but they were helping Ukraine strike
21:13Russians with the Ukrainian territory. So Sevastopol has always been Russian. All right. And that's,
21:18that was just the start of it. Much of Washington's control over the conflict was coordinated through
21:23a mission command center established in Weisbaden, Germany. So there's a command center the U.S. set up
21:30in Germany and they were running the entire war out of it. Absolutely everything was being run
21:35through this command center. They drew up plans for all of the major offensives, the 2022 offensive,
21:42the utterly disastrous and defeated 2023 offensive. I guarantee you, even though the New York Times
21:49doesn't admit it, they also engineered the Nazi incursions into Belgorod and then the subsequent
21:56incursion into Kursk. I guarantee you all of this was planned out by the Americans and Ukrainians simply
22:04carried it out. Well, you read the whole article and you will understand why I think that that is
22:10the case. Literally everything Ukraine was doing, including things Ukraine did not want to do,
22:16was because the U.S. was telling them to do it. While many of Ukraine's military operations were
22:21attributed to Ukrainian planning, the New York Times has since revealed it was instead overseen by
22:26the U.S. and other NATO members through Weisbaden. The article would explain side by side in Weisbaden's
22:32mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kiev counteroffensive. So it
22:37wasn't Ukraine planning it and then having the U.S. check it. The U.S. was planning it and Ukrainians
22:42were in the room because then they would just tell the Ukrainians do this. A vast American intelligence
22:47collection effort both guided big picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information
22:54down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field. So again, every aspect overseen and decided upon by U.S.
23:03generals in Germany. One European intelligence chief recalled being taken aback to learn how deeply
23:10enmeshed his NATO counterparts had become in Ukrainian operations. They are part of the kill chain now, he said.
23:16The kill chain is you find a target. Well, first you find the target using intelligence and then you
23:24need to find assets that are capable of striking it, feed the targeting information to them and guide
23:29these rounds to that target to kill it. That is the chain to kill an enemy target. And so this was the
23:36U.S. overseeing the Ukrainian kill chain. It was not Ukraine. It was the U.S. through the Ukrainians.
23:43New York Times also admitted military and CIA officers in Weisbaden helped plan and support
23:48a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian annexed Crimea. Finally, the military and then the CIA
23:55received the green light to enable pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself. So you remember
24:02they pretended as if Ukraine was carrying out all of these strikes using their own intelligence. No,
24:07it was the U.S. the entire time. And these drone strikes being carried out in inside Russia right now
24:13are also being overseen by U.S. generals in a command center in Europe. They're still doing this because
24:20otherwise it is impossible for Ukraine to find targets. They do not have the ability to collect
24:25intelligence accurately enough, quickly enough inside Russia to carry out these strikes on their own. It is
24:31still the U.S. under the Trump administration waging war against Russia through Ukraine, which is why
24:39Secretary of State Marco Rubio's comments about how everyone's being impossible in the U.S. is just
24:44going to wash its hands of the conflict. It is America's conflict. That is why it is so
24:49obscene and insulting to the intelligence of the global public. The article admits that Western military
24:55officers, not Ukrainians, made the final decision regarding what targets would be hit and how. This
25:02included the use of U.S. provided M777 howitzers and the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system. The
25:09New York Times admitted Weisbaden would oversee each HIMARS strike. U.S. General Donahue and his aides
25:19would review the Ukrainians target list and advise them on positioning their launchers and timing their
25:25strikes. The Ukrainians were supposed to only use coordinates the Americans provided. To fire a warhead,
25:31HIMARS operators needed a special electronic key card which the Americans could deactivate
25:37any time. And remember Mark Sloboda talking about this for literally for years since they sent HIMARS
25:44to Ukraine. And I think a lot of people were skeptical about whether that was true or not. But
25:48here's the New York Times telling you, yes, it was true. Every aspect of these HIMARS strikes was
25:54overseen and directed by U.S. generals, not Ukrainian commanders. Every large-scale Ukrainian
26:01operation including the 2022 Kherson and Kharkov offensives, as well as the failed 2023 offensive,
26:07were planned, organized, and directed by U.S. military officers from Weisbaden. This also included the
26:13creation of new Ukrainian brigades. New York Times admits was overseen not by a Ukrainian commander,
26:19but by U.S. Lieutenant General Antonio Aguto Jr. It is also revealed that it wasn't Ukraine who asked
26:28for longer-range weapons like the Army Tactical Missile System, ATAKIMS. It was the U.S. Generals in
26:34Weisbaden. The New York Times admits General Cavoli and Aguto recommended the next quantum leap,
26:41giving the Ukrainians Army Tactical Missile Systems missiles known as ATAKIMS, that can travel up to 190 miles
26:48to make it harder for Russian forces in Crimea to help defend Maledipal. And that was, you remember,
26:54they were trying to reach Maledipal and Mariupol and all of these positions along the coast during
27:04their 2023 offensive, and it was not working. And because it was a U.S. plan, it was the U.S. generals
27:11who created it who were panicking because it wasn't working. And they were the ones demanding that
27:16Washington send additional weapon systems that previously were unthinkable, including ATAKIMS,
27:22send them so that they would have a chance of succeeding. Their plan was failing. And it's
27:26interesting, not everything in this New York Times article should be believed at face value. You can
27:32see as the U.S. was bungling this proxy war, they continuously made excuses as if the Ukrainians just
27:40weren't listening to all of their good advice. Toward the end of the article, it makes it abundantly
27:44clear. The U.S. simply exhausted its material resources. Its military industrial base was
27:49incapable of fighting a war like this. Russia was. And that's where we find ourselves at this current
27:57juncture. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Let me continue. It was also revealed that Ukrainian
28:02commanders realized the U.S. planned and directed 2023 offensive was doomed during its earliest phase.
28:08You remember those heaps of Leopard 2 main battle tanks burning out in open fields the Russians had
28:16completely mined. The Ukrainians knew at that point the offensive had failed. It was not going to work.
28:23And they told the U.S. generals this was not going to work. Yet U.S. commanders demanded Ukraine,
28:29this is a direct quote from the New York Times, press on. Various options were formulated to try to salvage the
28:36failed offensive with the New York Times, attributing its failure to a number of factors,
28:40including infighting among Ukrainian commanders and even tension between Ukrainian commanders and
28:45their U.S. handlers, because that's what the U.S. generals were. They were handling the Ukrainian
28:49military. The Ukrainian military was completely subordinated to the U.S. The U.S. was at the top of
28:56the command structure and they were barking orders down to the rest of the Ukrainian military, which was
29:01subordinated to this command center in Germany. In reality, the offensive failed because of the
29:07realities of material limitations on Western military industrial production and their inability to fight
29:13the type of war of attrition Russia had prepared for years in advance and imposed on them. And I remember
29:20for years and years, even before 2014, the Russian military was, and I used to watch this Russian
29:27series called Combat Approved. And they were talking about all of these weapons they were developing
29:34and the large quantities that they were developing and the revamping of the military industrial base.
29:41And I was wondering, what were they getting back then? I mean, many years ago, I was wondering,
29:46why are they doing all of this? What do they see that I don't realize yet? And they saw the U.S.
29:53and this encirclement, encroachment, and containment strategy. And they knew that this war was inevitable
30:00and they were preparing for it for years in advance. The U.S. also knew that because of the way they have
30:07set up their system to maximize profit over purpose, they're not able to take the necessary steps to
30:13prepare properly for a war of attrition of this nature. There is no profitable model
30:22yet that allows you to fight a war like this. It is going to cost you. You are going to have to lose
30:28money. You're going to have to have state-owned enterprises because a private corporation would
30:35never agree to any of the actual measures needed to win a war like this. And we can see how that has
30:44played out over the last three, now going on to four years in Ukraine. Toward the end of the New York
30:50Times article, it admitted that the coalition simply couldn't provide all the equipment for a major
30:55counteroffensive. They're talking about the 2023 offensive completely failed. And then they were
31:01thinking, how can we launch another offensive? They can't. They simply don't have the equipment
31:08for it, nor could the Ukrainians build an army big enough to mount one. So this idea of building
31:13brigades out of thin air, as I pointed out at the time, was never going to work. Even though they had,
31:19you know, U.S. generals who supposedly were experts at doing so, this was never going to succeed. It was
31:26just unrealistic. But you have to remember, the U.S. didn't actually care. When the 2023 offensive was
31:34failing right from the beginning, and the Ukrainian commanders saw this, and they told the Americans,
31:40almost certainly because they wanted to stop, because they realized that if they continued,
31:44they would lose their whole army. The U.S. said, press on. Why did they say press on? Because they thought
31:49there was some way they could possibly pull off a win? No, because this was always about overextending
31:56Russia. Not necessarily defeating Russia, but overextending it to the fullest possible point,
32:04and fully at the expense of Ukraine. When they said to the last Ukrainian, they meant to the last
32:09Ukrainian. And this New York Times article really makes it clear how deeply ingrained that mentality
32:18was at every single level, politically and militarily within the U.S.
32:22various operations were described throughout the article, including U.S.-British attempts to destroy
32:29the Kerch or the Crimean Bridge connecting Crimea to the rest of Russia, all of which ended in failure.
32:35While the article attempts to blame the gradual drawdown of U.S. support for Ukraine on the election
32:40of President Donald Trump and its desire for peace, which was always a lie from the very beginning, was never
32:47genuine. It is clear the U.S. simply exhausted the means to continue waging a proxy war against a Russian
32:54military, much better able to replace its losses than Ukraine and its Western sponsors. The New York
32:58Times essentially admits this was a U.S. war waged against Russia, simply using Ukraine as intermediaries.
33:06Every major military operation down to specific targets to be struck and which U.S.-European made and
33:11provided weapons systems to use to strike it with was made by American, not Ukrainian generals.
33:18Now let's talk about playing mediator while seeking to freeze a failed proxy war, because that's what
33:23the Trump administration is actually doing. And that's what the Biden administration was trying to do
33:27before the changeover to the Trump administration. Today, the U.S. government is attempting to play the
33:32role of a frustrated mediator trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, when in reality,
33:37this was always a war between the U.S. and Russia. In reality, current U.S. Secretary of Defense,
33:43Pete Hegseth, in a February 12, 2025 speech, discussed European and non-European troops being
33:50sent into Ukraine as a security guarantee, which would in practice either freeze the conflict or
33:55precipitate direct hostilities between Russia and Europe. And that is this. This is the entire transcript
34:01right here. I've played the video many, many times. This is where, you know, Russia is always talking
34:08about the cause of this conflict needs to be addressed. What is the cause of this conflict?
34:13It is not Ukraine. It is the United States and its use of NATO to encircle, contain, and threaten to
34:20absorb Russia. That is the central cause of this conflict. This is what Russia is talking about needing to
34:28be addressed. What has the Trump administration said about NATO? That it's the cause of all of this
34:33and it should be dismantled? No. You had Secretary Hegseth in Europe telling the Europeans you're going
34:39to spend more than double what you're already spending to expand NATO, to expand your funding
34:45for NATO so that we can expand NATO altogether. This is what he said during this February 12,
34:52I would say directive that he gave to Europe that Europe has ever since very obediently and strictly
34:59adhered to and has begun implementing. Secretary Hegseth also instructed Europe the next steps
35:05regarding Ukraine would be donating more ammunition and equipment to Ukraine, as well as expanding your
35:11defense industrial base. These are quotes from this transcript. What Secretary Hegseth actually laid out
35:19was a directive, not toward peace in Ukraine, but to once again freeze the conflict as the U.S. and Europe
35:24did during the Minsk agreements, during which the U.S. and Europe could expand their own military
35:29industrial bases to match or exceed Russian production and rearm and reorganize Ukrainian forces to resume
35:35hostilities again in the future when factors lean in Washington's favor, not Moscow's. Secretary of State
35:41Marco Rubio's predictable boredom with peace talks with Russia signals the U.S.'s readiness to transfer
35:48responsibility for its proxy war fully onto Europe as planned and as laid out by Secretary Hegseth in
35:55February as it pivots toward a much more dangerous confrontation with Russia's ally to the east, China,
36:03which is the exact same kind of conflict the U.S. has created with Russia and is pretending to want peace
36:09in the middle of. It is engineering the exact same conflict with China and also Iran. Now think about this
36:17strategically and logically. The U.S. is openly fixing for a war with Iran. It is already waging war
36:24against Yemen. It has Israel waging war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Do you want peace
36:31with Russia? Do you want to actually really solve the conflict in Ukraine so that Russia can free up
36:39resources to support its ally Iran? Absolutely not. You want to freeze the conflict and force Russia to remain
36:46committed to Ukraine. That is what they are doing. That is what Secretary Hegseth said all the way back
36:51in February. Everything that they have actually done, regardless of the rhetoric that they have used as
36:57a smoke screen to do all of this behind, everything they have actually done is to freeze this conflict.
37:04Minsk 3 plus a Syria-style conflict freeze with an invasion force on the ground in Ukraine,
37:14keeping Russia, either forcing Russia to decide whether to continue and risk war with nuclear-armed
37:23Europe or just accept that that's where the battle lines will be frozen until some point in the future
37:30when hostilities resume again, just as they did in Syria. The Trump administration and the Biden
37:37administration before it never had any intention of addressing the actual cause of the conflict in
37:42Ukraine. NATO's expansion up to and all along Russia's borders with every intention of inevitably
37:47absorbing Russia itself. Because of this, genuine peace was never possible, regardless of the Trump
37:53administration's public rhetoric and empty gestures toward Russia. I've tried to warn about this for now
38:00months, even before President Trump took office. I warned that there was never going to be any peace
38:05between the U.S. and Russia. We can see it now materializing. People are still clinging to the
38:11hope that somehow this is just, oh, well, Trump has these neocons in his administration that are
38:16resisting peace. Who put them there? President Trump did, just like he did the first four years he was in
38:22office. While the Trump administration has paid lip service to NATO expansion, because I've had people say,
38:30no, President Trump has talked about NATO expansion and identified it as the cause of this conflict.
38:37But what has he actually done about it? So the Trump administration's only decision regarding NATO
38:43specifically has been to demand NATO members more than double funding for NATO, to expand NATO. Not to
38:51disband it. It serves no purpose. It is only a threat to Russia, forcing Russia to respond in this way.
38:58No, they're going to have each member state more than double their funding for it to expand it.
39:05Russia, for its part, has left the door open for honest negotiations and has provided the United
39:10States ample exit ramps from both an unwinnable proxy war and indefinite confrontation with Russia
39:16into the future. The U.S. is obviously not interested, and I think Russia knew this all along, but they had to
39:23do this anyway, if only to maintain appearances. It wants to appear to have pursued diplomacy, even
39:34though it knew the U.S. was never interested. The U.S. wants the world to believe, and this is what
39:39Secretary Rubio is doing. He wants the world to believe the U.S. sought diplomacy and it simply failed,
39:47leaving them no other option, but to continue on picking a fight with China and Iran in exactly the
39:54same way it picked this fight with Russia, and dumping the conflict onto Europe, and then indirectly
40:00supporting Europe in the continuation, or at least the freezing of this war until a point in the future
40:05where it can be restarted. Russia had, throughout peace talks with the U.S., continued its war of
40:11attrition against Ukrainian forces, continuing the process the New York Times described as the
40:16central contributing factor for the proxy war's current failure. The real question that remains
40:22is whether or not Russia can continue this process at a faster and more effective rate than the U.S. and
40:27Europe can continue donating more ammunition and equipment to Ukraine while attempting to expand their
40:33defense industrial bases. And again, that was from Secretary Hegsteth's February directive. That is
40:40what he told Europe to do. Only time will tell for sure. As Syria has demonstrated, a proxy war the U.S.
40:47has lost one moment can be frozen, revisited, and eventually won if it is able to overextend designated
40:55adversaries like Russia and Iran for long enough and extensively enough elsewhere. The U.S. has already
41:01embarked upon armed conflict with Yemen and is threatening war with Iran, forcing Russia to once
41:06again make difficult decisions regarding where it invests its finite military resources versus the
41:12seemingly infinite U.S. capacity to create instability and conflict worldwide. I think we can all agree
41:18that that is something the U.S. excels at, creating instability and conflict everywhere, forcing nations to
41:26expand resources to address it, to respond to it, allowing the U.S. to maintain initiative in a way.
41:34The survival and success of multipolarism depends on the multipolar world cooperating against U.S. attempts
41:41to reassert American primacy, not only through direct and proxy war, but also through economic coercion and
41:46political interference. And to understand that a U.S. war on Russia and Ukraine, or a proxy war waged against
41:53Syria in the Middle East is in fact a war against the rise of multipolarism altogether, and the promise
42:00of peace and prosperity it offers. I'm here in Southeast Asia, in the Kingdom of Thailand, a U.S. proxy war
42:10against Russia and Ukraine, the war against Syria, threat of war against Iran, and then obviously much
42:20closer to here in Southeast Asia. This trade war the U.S. is starting with China and its preparations for
42:26actual war, building up its military forces in this region closer to Chinese shores than to American shores.
42:33This is an obvious, open, direct threat to Thailand. Peace, prosperity, stability here in Thailand as well.
42:41Every nation in the multipolar world needs to understand this. They need to act accordingly. They need to act in cooperation
42:48with these pillars of multipolarism. Russia, Iran, China, India, to a certain extent. All of these nations
42:56need to work together to address this. They need to be realistic about the threat that the U.S. poses,
43:02not to these nations far off, these far off battlefields that you see in the news. That is a direct threat to
43:10your peace and your stability right now in your own country, no matter how far flung it seems. It is all
43:17interconnected. And this is why I spend so much time talking about this. I don't really talk about
43:23political developments in Thailand for a number of reasons. But if people understand what is going on
43:29in Ukraine, the U.S. is driving this and that the Trump administration is just lying to people,
43:34like all administrations before it, including the previous Trump administration. If people can
43:39understand that and see through it, they can see through what the U.S. is doing to their specific country
43:44as well. And they can see how all of this poses a threat to them. Again, no matter how far
43:49it seems geographically, it is very close geopolitically. So that's the article. We
43:57obviously have to keep a very close eye on this. I continuously go back to this directive laid out by
44:03U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hanks. I actually see analysts who are still utterly convinced that
44:10President Trump wants peace with Russia and that it's everybody else undermining all of this.
44:16And they talk about certain people in his administration trying to undermine him. Europe,
44:22Ukraine is undermining President Trump. They don't ever talk about Secretary of Defense, Pete Hankseth,
44:31laying out in excruciating and open detail this plan that Europe is having all of these meetings now
44:38to put together and implement the the sending of right here. The United States does not believe
44:46that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. Instead,
44:51any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops. They're talking about
44:56Western aligned troops going into Ukraine. And what is the purpose of these troops? Do you honestly
45:02believe it is to oversee a peace agreement or is it a Syria-style freeze of the conflict, forcing Russia
45:11to stop where it is? The United States in Eastern Syria, Turkey in Northern Syria forced Russian and
45:19Iranian-backed Syrian forces to stop. They were not able to recapture all of Syria's territory,
45:25re-consolidate control over all of it. The conflict was just frozen and it was left there.
45:32And there was no resolution. And the US always pretended that it sought some sort of political
45:37resolution for the conflict when in reality, they always planned to just keep overextending
45:43Russia and Iran elsewhere while undermining Syria's economy at home until a collapse began,
45:50including with the help of this military force the US and its regional allies put together and then
45:56swarmed Syrian positions and overran them. And so this is what they're setting up to do again in
46:04Ukraine. And even as they do this, they are picking identical fights with all of Russia's allies, Iran
46:12and the Middle East, China and the Asia Pacific regions. We need to wake up to this. This is what
46:16the US is doing, whether we like it or not, whether we want to believe that it's happening or not.
46:21That is what the US is doing. And our best chance, we as just ordinary people who don't really have
46:27much of a say in what is happening in Washington or in Moscow, the best we can do is help people
46:34understand what is really happening, to shed the delusion that we want to cling to, that they're
46:40going to work all of this out on their own, except that the US is never, never going to seek peace,
46:48unless it is forced to. And that is what the multipolar world needs to do. It needs to create
46:52the conditions on the ground that leave the US no other option, but to choose peace, not freezing
46:58the conflict, not kicking the can down the road, but actually accepting peace and going back behind
47:03its borders where it belongs and focus on rebuilding the United States for the American people, which is
47:09what President Trump promised during his campaign season, but is the exact opposite he's doing right
47:15now. He is still pursuing American empire abroad, not only at the cost of the rest of the world,
47:20but also at the cost of the American people. I talked to Americans. I'm American. I'm from America.
47:26My family is still in the United States and I talked to them and I can guarantee you that they're not
47:32benefiting from any of this. It has been a constant slide downward, cost of living crisis,
47:40constantly increasing. And it is because of these tariffs, these wars, this lie that the US government
47:48is going to look after the Americans and the American people and make America great again,
47:54when in reality, they're just clinging to their empire at the cost of everyone, including the
47:59American people. So again, we have to keep a close eye on this. I will continue keeping a close eye on this.
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