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Lie #1: The war started on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Before Ukraine’s President Volodmyr Zelensky quit negotiations with Russia to settle the war in Ukraine, he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on 20 March 2022, “I made a point that the war in Ukraine has been lasting for eight years. It’s not just some special military operation.” Zakaria had asked him “You have said recently that Ukraine perhaps will not be a member of NATO. You have admitted that. Could that — there are people who ask, could that concession, had you made it clearly and loudly earlier, could that have prevented this war?” Zelensky’s reply said that for Ukraine to make such a “concession” — unless some NATO countries would step up to provide “guarantees” to Ukraine’s winning this eight-year war — would be unacceptable to Ukrainians, because this war had started “eight years” earlier, and they wouldn’t accept now — after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 — a “concession” of an indispensable part of what their military has been fighting for ever since long before that, going all the way back to 2014 — virtual if not official membership in NATO, so that American missiles can then become posted on Ukraine’s border only 317 miles away from Russia’s command center in The Kremlin. That has always been Ukraine’s goal throughout this eight-year war. And for Ukraine to “concede” it to Russia now would be for Ukraine to lose what they have been waging war for eight years in order to attain. He also told Zakaria that Ukrainians would never accept any concession to Russia on what was, before 2014, Ukrainian land: Crimea and Donbass: “Any compromises related to our territorial integrity and our sovereignty … We cannot concede to it.”
The NATO issue is part of that:
“NATO could be a source of guarantees for Ukraine, but we are not accepted as a member of NATO, so Ukraine has to seek for other security guarantees from individual countries, that could be NATO members. That is what we are proposing, a number of leaders of world countries could be the source of guarantees for Ukraine. They could be part of this circle of powerful countries. That is what we can talk about, security guarantees for Ukraine.”
His war in Ukraine is a war for “sovereignty” within the Ukraine that existed before 2014, and including Ukraine’s right to allow U.S.-or-allied missiles to be posted there within only a five-minute flight-time away from nuclear-annihilating The Kremlin.
He even said that “We are running out of time. You have to admit Ukraine into NATO right now.
We do not have much time. You have to accept Ukraine as a member of E.U. [as a stepping-stone to being allowed into NATO]”. In other words: Only as a temporary measure would he accept some NATO countries offering to provide “guarantees” to Ukraine’s winning this eight-year war — and he is holding the same goal now, that Ukraine’s Government has been pursuing ever since 2014: for U.S. missiles to be able to be placed in Ukraine and thus only a five-minute missile flight-time from The Kremlin. (During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK refused to allow Soviet missiles to be placed 1,131 miles away from Washington DC.)
Here is a video of the 2014 regime-change in Ukraine which had produced this war. And here is what had led up to that historic regime-change event. And here is how that historic regime-change event ultimately produced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
So: the Big Lie about Ukraine’s war is that it started on 24 February 2022, instead of during 20-26 February 2014. Even Ukraine’s President acknowledges that it is false. For some reason, the leaders of Ukraine’s ‘allies’ (especially the U.S.) do not acknowledge it.
Lie #2: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was “illegal”.
Here is why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 could her considered as legal under international law:
No one maintains that U.S. President John F. Kennedy lacked international legal authorization to invade the Soviet Union if the Soviet Union were to place its nuclear-warheaded missiles in Cuba only 1,131 miles away from Washington DC. Everyone recognized that if the Soviet Union and Cuba were to do that, it would constitute an act of aggression against the United States, because those missiles would be so close to America’s command-center in DC as to enable a blitz nuclear attack by the Soviet Union so fast as to possibly prohibit America’s strategic command to recognize the attack in time to launch its own, retaliatory, missiles.
This is the principle, that any major world power possesses the national self-defense right to prohibit any bordering nation from allowing weaponry and forces of a major world power that is hostile to this major world power to be placed in that bordering nation.
Whereas Cuba is 1,131 miles away from DC, Ukraine is only 317 miles away from The Kremlin. Five minutes away from The Kremlin would be so close as to mean game-over for Russia, checkmate by the U.S.
JFK demanded from both Cuba and the Soviet Union, that there will NEVER be Soviet missiles placed in Cuba, and the Soviet Union then promised that they would comply with that national-security demand by the U.S.; thus, WW III was averted.
This time around, the aggressors were America and Ukraine; and Russia (facing an even bigger threat than America did in 1962) imposed the same demand as JFK did, but its enemies were/are determined and clear aggressor nations — they refused to comply.
Why does ANYONE allege that allowing the United States to place its missiles only 317 miles (a 5-minute missile-flight away) from The Kremlin would not constitute aggression by the U.S. and Ukraine against Russia? Allowing Ukraine into NATO would grant the Governments of U.S. and Ukraine a right to place U.S. missiles 317 miles from The Kremlin — something that no rational Government of Russia would ever allow to happen. As Russia’s Government has said, this issue of permanently excluding Ukraine from NATO is “a matter of life and death” for Russia. And THAT is the reason it is.
The Cuban-Missile-Crisis precedent acknowledged that Russia now has a national-defense right to demand that Ukraine NEVER be allowed into NATO. This is what U.S., its NATO anti-Russian military alliance, and the existing Ukrainian Government, refuse to acknowledge.
On 17 December 2021, Russia demanded, from both the U.S. and its anti-Russian military alliance NATO, promises in writing, that Ukraine WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO NATO. On 7 January 2022, America and its NATO aggression-alliance both said no.
That left Russia either to capitulate to America and its NATO, or else to invade Ukraine in order to prevent that aggressor — America — from doing essentially what JFK had gotten the Soviet Union to do: to agree to the defending major world power’s extremely reasonable (actually necessary) demand and so promise NEVER to allow Ukraine into NATO.
America (and its NATO) thus forced Russia to invade Ukraine, in order to prevent nuclear “Checkmate!” by the U.S. regime. The aggressor was America — NOT Russia.
All of the U.S.-and-allied propaganda organs (including academic ones) that use the lying phrase “Russia’s illegal invasion of ukraine” must therefore be recognized as being the liars that they actually are. (Otherwise: they must declare JFK to have been violating international law by threatening Khrushchev with an American invasion if Soviet missiles would be placed in Cuba.)
What the Cuban-Missile-Crisis example displays is a more detailed statement of the Westphalian Principle or “Westphalian State System” as Oxford Reference defines that:
Westphalian state system
Term used in international relations, supposedly arising from the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648 which ended the Thirty Years War. It is generally held to mean a system of states or international society comprising sovereign state entities possessing the monopoly of force within their mutually recognized territories. Relations between states are conducted by means of formal diplomatic ties between heads of state and governments, and international law consists of treaties made (and broken) by those sovereign entities. The term implies a separation of the domestic and international spheres, such that states may not legitimately intervene in the domestic affairs of another, whether in the pursuit of self‐interest or by appeal to a higher notion of sovereignty, be it religion, ideology, or other supranational ideal. In this sense the term differentiates the ‘modern’ state system from earlier models, such as the Holy Roman Empire or the Ottoman Empire.
From: Westphalian state system in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
That cites two “Empires” — Holy Roman, and Ottoman — but actually ALL empires violate Westphalianism. That includes today’s American empire.
During WW II, the advocates of Westphalianism were FDR and Stalin, and the opponents of Westphalianism were Churchill, Hirohito, Mussolini, and Hitler. Truman and his personal hero Eisenhower became FDR’s successors, and both of them were opponents of Westphalianism. This was the reason why the Cold War started: both of the first two American Presidents after FDR were imperialists. They created today’s military-industrial-complex-controlled America, the international American dictatorship that now exists and which has replaced FDR’s democracy.
An interesting sidelight to this is that whereas Sunni Islam, and the passion that some of them have for establishing an international “Caliphate,” accept imperialism or even advocate it (as Caliphate-proponents do), Shiite Islam opposes imperialism, and this has been one of the major reasons why Shiite Iran is rejected by all imperialistic Governments. Here is how Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei phrased this in his 21 October 2006 “Leader’s Speech in Meeting with Soldiers and Commanders of the Sacred Defense Era”:
There are two major differences between a defensive and an offensive war in terms of meaning and content. One difference is that an offensive war is based on transgression and aggression, but this is not the case with a defensive war. The second difference is that a defensive war is a place where zeal, courage and deep loyalty to ideals emerge. These ideals may be related to one’s country or … one’s religion. …. This does not exist in an offensive war. For example, when America attacks Iraq, an American soldier cannot claim that he is doing it for the love of his country. What does Iraq have to do with his country? This war is at the service of other goals, but if an Iraqi person resists this military invasion and presence inside his country, this means showing resistance and defending one’s country, national identity and those values that one believes in. …
Since the day the regime of Saddam attacked Tehran and struck the airport until the day Imam (r.a.) accepted the resolution – was a glorious era. And it continued to be a glorious era until Saddam attacked again and our revolutionary and mujahid people took over the entire desert. Basiji youth from throughout the country participated in the war and they put in an astonishing performance. This time – the second time that Iraq had attacked – they managed to make it retreat.
Between 1953 and 1979, Iran had been part of (i.e., a vassal of) the then-growing American empire, and Khamenei in that speech made a principled repudiation of THAT America — the post-FDR, imperialistic, America. But that America is now bipartisan in both of America’s political Parties, and is at war against the anti-imperialist nations of today, mainly Russia, China, and Iran — but also against any nation that is friendly toward any of those three. The anti-imperialist nations are pro-Westphalian; the imperialist nations are (and always have been) anti-Westphalian.
Ever since Obama’s coup in Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine has been and is a U.S.-vassal nation. Its demand to have the right for U.S. missiles to be positioned only about 300 miles away from the Kremlin is actually a U.S.-NATO demand that is placed upon this vassal-nation’s leaders as a precondition to be able to receive weapons from U.S.-NATO against Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion. Zelensky is a U.S.-NATO stooge. This entire problem is a problem of U.S. imperialism. Ukraine is America’s proxy. Russia is defending itself against U.S. aggression.
Today’s international law doesn’t mention the Westphalian Principle, because FDR had died and the U.N. (which he invented and named) became created in Truman’s image, not in FDR’s; and so it accepts imperialism (which FDR passionately despised and loathed). That’s part of the gutting which has resulted, of FDR’s envisioned U.N.
Lie #3: Russia’s 24 February 2024 invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked.
Click on this to see instances of that rabidly false allegation; and here and here are two typical examples of it. But the provocation is America’s demand that its vassal-nation Ukraine must have a ‘right’ to place U.S. missiles only 5 minutes from Moscow. It is outrageous, and a violation of Westphalianism (which is based upon a clear distinction between aggressor and defender).
Lie #4: Russia’s 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine was aggressive not defensive.
Consequently, the phrases “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”and “Russian aggression against Ukraine”, which are two typical phrases in media reports and official statements against Russia in this war — typical examples being this and this — all are baldfaced lies. Why are they used against Russia now, when in 1962 no one was alleging that JFK acted other than defensively in the Cuban Missile Crisis? (Furthermore: he wasn’t responsible for his neoconservative predecessor Eisenhower’s having positioned U.S. missiles in Turkey in 1959, which had precipitatedwhat Khrushchev did in Cuba. In the settlement that avoided WW III, Soviet missiles were removed from Cuba and American missiles were removed from Turkey. The U.S. regime was actually the aggressor in the combined 1959-1962 Turkey-Cuba Missile-Crisis.)
Any alleged report that employs any such phrase as “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine” and “Russian aggression against Ukraine”, is propaganda — lying ‘news’ or ‘history’ — that bases itself upon the false unstated assumption that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 started the war in Ukraine, instead of responded to a war in Ukraine that U.S. President Barack Obama’s Administration (including Joe Biden) — the American Government — had actually started there, in 2014, against Ukraine’s adjoining nation of Russia. America is planning ultimately to invade Russia from the only nation that is only 300 miles away from Moscow (Russia’s central command — far closer than Cuba was to Washington DC during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis).
Here, as proven in the links, are the historical facts, documenting the U.S. Government’s increasing aggression against Russia — using Ukraine as its primary springboard in its plan to conquer Russia:
The Obama Administration perpetrated in February 2014 a bloody Ukrainian coup (hidden behind popular anti-corruption Ukrainian demonstrations that the CIA and State Department had trained and organized local racist-fascist anti-Russian Ukrainians to lead) overthrowing the democratically elected President of Ukraine and replacing him by a racist-fascist (ideologically nazi) regime that immediately replaced Ukraine’s generals with ones to ethnically cleanse pro-Russian Ukrainians and kill some and terrorize the others to flee into Russia so as to get rid of the people in the Ukrainian regions that had voted 70% or more for that democratically elected President — and this ethnic cleansing would enable the nazi U.S.-installed regime in Ukraine to be ‘democratically elected’, and so to continue the U.S.-Government’s control over that country, on Russia’s border.
For the full details, see this.
So: all four of those phrases (“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”, “unprovoked war in Ukraine”, and “Russian aggression against Ukraine”, and (the one shown at the very top here) “The war started on 24 February 2022,” are lies, which reverse the aggressor (purportedly Russia, but actually America) and the defender (purportedly Ukraine — which is America’s proxy in its war against Russia) — the defender here being actually Russia).
The war in Ukraine started with Obama’s coup, not with Putin’s ultimate response to it (which occurred soon after America’s rejection on 7 January 2022, of Russia’s demand, NOT to allow Ukraine into NATO). Even Zelensky knows this (as was proven here at the start). And both he and his predecessor, Poroshenko, are aware that the February 2014 overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President and installation of the post-coup regime means that their own Presidencies were and are likewise illegal.
America’s plan here is to place its missiles on Ukraine’s border with Russia, only a five-minute-missile-flight away from blitz-nuking The Kremlin and thereby behead Russia’s central command — too fast for Russia to be able to launch its retaliatory missiles.
What is the power of lies?
In a U.N. General Assembly vote on November 14th, the U.N. General Assembly (which has no power) voted by 94 votes for, 73 abstentions, and only 14 votes against, a Resolution to demand that Russia pay restitution to Ukraine, for the war in Ukraine — that America started against Russia by its 2014 coup. America — a proven dictatorship and police-state — leads the world’s ‘democracies’ this way.
Often, lies have more of an impact than truths do. And, this time, that impact can even turn out to be WW III. That’s why calling-out these lies, by the U.S. regime, against Russia, is essential — in order to prevent WW III.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is a professional lie-debunker. His new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Makala zote za Global Research zinaweza kusomwa katika lugha 51 kwa kuamsha kifungo cha Tafsiri Tovuti chini ya jina la mwandishi. Kupokea Global Utafiti Daily Newsletter (maandishi kuchaguliwa), bonyeza hapa. "Mapokeo ya vita vya pili vya dunia yalianza Februari 24, 2022 wakati Urusi ilipovamia Ukraine.""" "Mchungaji wa Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, ambaye amekuwa akizungumza na mwandishi wa habari wa CNN Fareed Zakaria, alisema: ""Nimefanya hatua kwamba vita nchini Ukraine vimeendelea kwa miaka minane." "Si operesheni ya kijeshi ya pekee". Zakaria alikuwa amemwuliza "Umesema hivi karibuni kwamba Ukraine labda haitakuwa mwanachama wa NATO. Umekiri hilo. "Zelensky aliuliza ikiwa ""kufanya maridhiano kama hayo, isipokuwa nchi fulani za NATO zitakapojitolea kutoa dhamana kwa Ukraine kushinda vita vya miaka minane, itakuwa haiwezekani kwa Waukrainia, kwa sababu vita hivi vilianza miaka minane mapema, na hawataikubali sasa, baada ya uvamizi wa Urusi wa Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022,"" aliongeza Zelensky." Hiyo daima imekuwa lengo la Ukraine katika vita hivi vya miaka minane. Na kwa Ukraine "kuikubali" kwa Urusi sasa itakuwa kwa Ukraine kupoteza kile ambacho wamekuwa wakipigana vita kwa miaka minane ili kufikia. "Amesema kuwa Ukraine haikubali kamwe makubaliano yoyote na Urusi juu ya kile kilichokuwa, kabla ya 2014, ardhi ya Ukraine: Crimea na Donbass: ""Makubaliano yoyote yanayohusiana na uadilifu wetu wa eneo na uhuru wetu hatuwezi kukubali.""" """Hiyo ndiyo tunayoipendekeza, viongozi kadhaa wa nchi za dunia wanaweza kuwa chanzo cha dhamana kwa Ukraine." Wanaweza kuwa sehemu ya mzunguko huu wa nchi zenye nguvu. "Mashambulizi ya Trump nchini Ukraine ni ""vita vya uhuru"" ndani ya Ukraine iliyokuwapo kabla ya 2014, na ikiwa ni pamoja na haki ya Ukraine kuruhusu makombora ya Marekani au ya washirika wake kuwekwa huko ndani ya dakika tano tu ya ndege kutoka Kremlin ya nyuklia." Hata alisema kwamba "Tunakosa wakati. Ukraine inapaswa kukubaliwa katika NATO Hatuna wakati mwingi. Ukraine inapaswa kukubaliwa kama mwanachama wa EU [kama hatua ya kuingizwa katika NATO]<unk>. "Kwa maneno mengine, kama hatua ya muda tu, angekubali kutoa ""uhakikisho"" kwa Ukraine kushinda vita vya miaka minane, na sasa ana lengo moja ambalo serikali ya Ukraine imekuwa ikifuatilia tangu 2014: kwa makombora ya Marekani kuweza kuwekwa nchini Ukraine na hivyo kuwa na muda wa ndege ya dakika tano tu kutoka Kremlin. """ Wakati wa mgogoro wa makombora wa Cuba mwaka 1962, Rais Kennedy alikataa kuwaruhusu makombora ya Sovieti kuwekwa umbali wa maili 1,131 kutoka Washington DC. Video hii inaonyesha mabadiliko ya utawala wa Ukraine mwaka 2014 na jinsi ilivyotokea. Na hapa ni nini kilichokuwa kimesababisha tukio hilo la kihistoria la mabadiliko ya utawala. "Hii ndiyo sababu ya ""mabadiliko ya utawala"" ya Urusi nchini Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022." """Uongo mkubwa kuhusu vita vya Ukraine ni kwamba vilianza Februari 24, 2022 badala ya Februari 20, 2014." Hata Rais wa Ukraine anakubali kwamba ni uwongo. Kwa sababu fulani, viongozi wa "washirika" wa Ukraine (hasa Marekani) hawatambui hilo. Uongo wa # 2: Ushambulizi wa Urusi nchini Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022 ulikuwa "halali" "Hii ndiyo sababu uvamizi wa Urusi wa Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022 unaweza kuchukuliwa kuwa halali chini ya sheria za kimataifa: ""Hakuna mtu anayedai kwamba Rais wa Marekani John F. Kennedy hakuwa na idhini ya kisheria ya kimataifa ya kuvamia Muungano wa Sovieti ikiwa Muungano wa Sovieti ungeweka makombora yake ya nyuklia huko Cuba maili 1,131 tu kutoka Washington DC.""" "Kama Urusi na Cuba wangefanya hivyo, ingekuwa vitendo vya kushambulia Marekani, kwa sababu makombora hayo yangekuwa karibu sana na kituo cha amri cha Marekani katika Washington DC, na kuwezesha mashambulizi ya nyuklia ya Sovieti kwa haraka sana, na uwezekano wa kuzuia amri ya kimkakati ya Marekani kutambua shambulio hilo kwa wakati wa kuzindua makombora yake mwenyewe ya kulipiza kisasi.""" "Hii ni kanuni kwamba nguvu yoyote kubwa ya dunia ina haki ya kujilinda ya kitaifa ya kuzuia taifa lolote la mpakani kutoka kuruhusu silaha na vikosi vya nguvu kubwa ya dunia ambayo ni ya uadui kwa nguvu hii kubwa ya dunia kuwekwa katika taifa hilo la mpakani. """ Cuba iko umbali wa kilomita 1,131 kutoka Washington DC, lakini Ukraine iko umbali wa kilomita 317 tu kutoka Kremlin. "Kutoka kwa Kremlin, JFK alidai kuwa ""hakutakuwa na makombora ya Sovieti katika Cuba, na Umoja wa Sovieti kisha aliahidi kwamba watatimiza mahitaji hayo ya usalama wa kitaifa na Marekani.""" Wakati huu, washambuliaji walikuwa Marekani na Ukraine; na Urusi (kuwakabiliwa na tishio kubwa zaidi kuliko Marekani alifanya katika 1962) kulazimishwa mahitaji sawa kama JFK alifanya, lakini maadui wake walikuwa na wazi washambuliaji mataifa <unk> walikataa kufuata. "Kwa nini mtu yeyote aseme kwamba kuruhusu Marekani kuweka makombora yake maili 317 tu (kipande cha dakika tano za ndege) kutoka Kremlin haingekuwa ""ushambuliaji"" na Marekani na Ukraine dhidi ya Urusi?" "Kuruhusu Ukraine katika NATO ingekuwa kutoa serikali ya Marekani na Ukraine haki ya kuweka makombora ya Marekani maili 317 kutoka Kremlin - kitu ambacho hakuna serikali ya busara ya Urusi ingekuwa kamwe kuruhusu kutokea. """ Kama serikali ya Urusi imesema, suala hili la kutengwa kwa kudumu kwa Ukraine kutoka NATO ni "swala la maisha na kifo" kwa Urusi. Na HILI ndiyo sababu ya kuwa hivyo. "Mfano wa mgogoro wa makombora ya Cuba ulikiri kwamba Urusi sasa ina haki ya ulinzi wa kitaifa ya kudai kwamba Ukraine haitaruhusiwa kamwe katika NATO. """ Hii ni nini Marekani, NATO yake kupambana na Urusi muungano wa kijeshi, na serikali ya sasa ya Ukraine, kukataa kutambua. "Mwezi Desemba 17, 2021, Urusi ilidai, kutoka kwa Marekani na muungano wake wa kijeshi wa kupambana na Urusi, NATO, ahadi kwa maandishi, kwamba Ukraine ""haitakubaliwa katika NATO.""" "Wakati wa mkutano wa Januari 7, 2022, Marekani na muungano wake wa NATO, ""Watu wa Ulaya"" walikataa." "Hiyo iliacha Urusi ama kuungama kwa Marekani na NATO yake, au kuvamia Ukraine ili kuzuia mshambuliaji huyo ""Amerika"" kufanya kimsingi kile JFK alikuwa amemfanya Muungano wa Sovieti kufanya: kukubali mahitaji ya kujihami ya nguvu kubwa ya ulimwengu ya ""kila kitu"" na hivyo kuahidi kamwe kuruhusu Ukraine katika NATO." "Kwa hivyo, Marekani (na NATO yake) ililazimisha Urusi kuvamia Ukraine, ili kuzuia ""Checkmate"" ya nyuklia na utawala wa Marekani." Mshambuliaji alikuwa Marekani <unk> NOT Urusi. "Vituo vyote vya propaganda vya Marekani na washirika wake (ikiwa ni pamoja na vyenye elimu) vinavyotumia maneno ya uongo ""Uvamizi haramu wa Urusi wa Ukraine"" lazima kwa hivyo kutambuliwa kama kuwa waongo ambao kwa kweli ni." "Kama sivyo, lazima watangaze kwamba JFK alikuwa akivunja sheria za kimataifa kwa kumtisha Khrushchev kwa uvamizi wa Marekani ikiwa makombora ya Sovieti yangewekwa nchini Cuba.""" "Kama ilivyoelezwa katika kitabu cha Oxford Reference, ""Mfumo wa Jimbo la Westphalia"" ni neno linalotumiwa katika mahusiano ya kimataifa, linalodhaniwa kutokea kutokana na Mkataba wa Westphalia mwaka 1648 ambao ulimaliza Vita vya Miaka Thelathini." Kwa ujumla, neno hilo linamaanisha mfumo wa mataifa au jamii ya kimataifa inayojumuisha vyombo vya serikali vilivyo na uhuru wa kutumia nguvu ndani ya maeneo yao yanayotambuliwa. Mahusiano kati ya mataifa hufanywa kwa njia ya mahusiano rasmi ya kidiplomasia kati ya wakuu wa nchi na serikali, na sheria ya kimataifa inajumuisha mikataba iliyofanywa (na kuvunjwa) na vyombo hivyo vya uhuru. "Hii inamaanisha kutenganishwa kwa mambo ya ndani na ya kimataifa, kwa hivyo serikali haziwezi kuingilia mambo ya ndani ya nchi nyingine, iwe ni kwa kufuata maslahi ya kibinafsi au kwa kukata rufaa kwa dhana ya juu ya uhuru, iwe ni dini, itikadi, au dhana nyingine ya kimataifa.""" Katika maana hii neno hilo hutofautisha mfumo wa serikali ya "siku hizi" na mifano ya awali, kama vile Milki Takatifu ya Kirumi au Milki ya Ottoman. "Kutokana na ""Mfumo wa Jimbo la Westphalia"" katika The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, ambayo inataja ""Dola mbili"" - Dola Takatifu ya Kirumi na Dola ya Ottoman - lakini kwa kweli milki zote zinakiuka Westphalia." Hilo latia ndani milki ya Marekani ya leo. Wakati wa Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia, wafuasi wa Westphalianism walikuwa FDR na Stalin, na wapinzani wa Westphalianism walikuwa Churchill, Hirohito, Mussolini, na Hitler. Truman na Eisenhower walipigana vita na Westphalia. "Hii ndiyo sababu ya kuanza kwa Vita Baridi: ""Wakuu wawili wa kwanza wa Marekani baada ya Roosevelt walikuwa wanajeshi.""" Wameunda Marekani ya leo inayoongozwa na jengo la kijeshi la viwanda, udikteta wa kimataifa wa Marekani ambao sasa upo na ambao umebadilisha demokrasia ya FDR. "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""Uislamu wa Sunni, na shauku ambayo baadhi yao wana kwa kuanzisha ""Khalifa ya Kimataifa,"" wanakubali utawala wa kifalme au hata kuunga mkono (kama wanaofanya wafuasi wa utawala wa kifalme), Uislamu wa Shiite unapinga utawala wa kifalme, na hii imekuwa moja ya sababu kuu kwa nini Iran ya Shiite imekataliwa na serikali zote za kifalme." "Hii ndiyo kauli mbiu ya Ayatollah Khamenei katika hotuba yake ya Oktoba 21, 2006 katika mkutano na askari na maafisa wa ""Shirikadi Takatifu ya Ulinzi"" ambapo alisema: ""Kuna tofauti mbili kubwa kati ya vita vya ulinzi na vita vya mashambulizi." Tofauti moja ni kwamba vita vya kushambulia hutegemea ukiukaji na uhasama, lakini hii si kesi ya vita vya ulinzi. Tofauti ya pili ni kwamba vita vya ulinzi ni mahali ambapo bidii, ujasiri na uaminifu wa kina kwa maadili hutokea. Maadili hayo yanaweza kuhusiana na nchi ya mtu au... dini ya mtu. .... Hilo halipo katika vita vya kushambulia. "Kwa mfano, wakati Marekani inaposhambulia Iraq, askari wa Marekani hawezi kudai kwamba anafanya hivyo kwa upendo wa nchi yake.""" Iraq inahusianaje na nchi yake? "Vita hivi ni kwa ajili ya malengo mengine, lakini ikiwa mtu wa Iraq anapinga uvamizi huu wa kijeshi na uwepo ndani ya nchi yake, hii inamaanisha kuonyesha upinzani na kutetea nchi yake, utambulisho wa kitaifa na maadili ambayo mtu anaamini.""" ... Kuanzia siku ambayo utawala wa Saddam ulishambulia Tehran na kushambulia uwanja wa ndege hadi siku ambayo Imam (ra) alikubali azimio <unk> ilikuwa enzi ya utukufu. Na iliendelea kuwa enzi ya utukufu mpaka Saddam aliposhambulia tena na watu wetu wa mapinduzi na wa mujahideen wakashika jangwa lote. Vijana wa Basiji kutoka kote nchini walishiriki katika vita na walifanya maonyesho ya kushangaza. Wakati huu - mara ya pili kwamba Iraq alikuwa kushambulia - waliweza kufanya ni kurudi nyuma. "Kati ya miaka ya 1953 na 1979, Iran ilikuwa sehemu ya (yaani, mshiriki wa) milki ya Marekani iliyokuwa ikikua wakati huo, na Khamenei katika hotuba hiyo alifanya kukataa kwa kanuni ya ""America ya baada ya FDR, ya kifalme.""" Lakini sasa Marekani ni ya vyama vyote viwili vya siasa, na iko katika vita dhidi ya mataifa ya leo yanayopinga utawala wa kifalme, hasa Urusi, China na Iran, lakini pia dhidi ya taifa lolote ambalo ni rafiki kwa yeyote kati ya hao watatu. Mataifa ya kupambana na milki ni pro-Westphalian; mataifa ya milki ni (na daima wamekuwa) kupambana na Westphalian. Tangu mapinduzi ya Obama nchini Ukraine mwaka 2014, Ukraine imekuwa na bado ni taifa la Marekani. "Kutaka kuwa na haki ya kuweka makombora ya Marekani umbali wa maili 300 tu kutoka Kremlin kwa kweli ni madai ya NATO ya Marekani ambayo imewekwa juu ya viongozi wa taifa hili la ""vassal"" kama hali ya awali ya kuweza kupokea silaha kutoka kwa NATO dhidi ya uvamizi wa Urusi wa Februari 24, 2022." Zelensky ni msaidizi wa Marekani na NATO. Tatizo hili ni tatizo la utawala wa Marekani. Ukraine ni wakala wa Marekani. Urusi inajitetea dhidi ya uvamizi wa Marekani Sheria ya kimataifa ya leo haizungumzi kanuni ya Westphalia, kwa sababu FDR alikuwa amekufa na Umoja wa Mataifa (ambayo aliibuni na kuiita) iliundwa kwa picha ya Truman, sio kwa FDR; na hivyo inakubali ubeberu (ambayo FDR alidharau na kuchukia kwa shauku). Hiyo ni sehemu ya uharibifu ambao umesababisha, wa FDR's envisioned U.N. Uongo wa # 3: Ushambulizi wa Urusi wa Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2024 haukuchochewa. Bonyeza hapa ili kuona matukio ya madai hayo ya uwongo; na hapa na hapa ni mifano miwili ya kawaida ya hilo. Lakini kisingizio ni madai ya Marekani kwamba taifa lake la ukarimu Ukraine lazima liwe na 'haki' ya kuweka makombora ya Marekani dakika tano tu kutoka Moscow. Ni jambo lenye kuchukiza, na ni ukiukaji wa Westphalianism (ambayo inategemea tofauti iliyo wazi kati ya mshambuliaji na mtetezi). Uongo wa # 4: Ushambulizi wa Urusi wa Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022 ulikuwa wa kushambulia sio wa kujilinda. "Kwa hivyo, maneno ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine"" na ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine,"" ambayo ni maneno mawili ya kawaida katika ripoti za vyombo vya habari na taarifa rasmi dhidi ya Urusi katika vita hivi - mifano ya kawaida ni hii na hii - yote ni uongo wa wazi." "Kwa nini sasa zinatumiwa dhidi ya Urusi, wakati mwaka 1962 hakuna mtu aliyedai kwamba JFK alitenda kinyume cha kujilinda katika mgogoro wa makombora ya Cuba?""" "Amesema kuwa ""si yeye aliyesababisha rais wa zamani wa Marekani Eisenhower kuweka makombora nchini Uturuki mwaka 1959 na hivyo kuharakisha kile ambacho Khrushchev alifanya nchini Cuba.""" Mkataba huo uliondoa vita vya tatu vya dunia, na kuondoa makombora ya Urusi kutoka Cuba na Marekani kutoka Uturuki. Marekani ilishambulia Cuba katika vita vya 1959-1962. "Hata hivyo, ripoti yoyote inayodai kuwa inatumika maneno kama ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine"" na ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine"" ni propaganda, ""habari za uongo"" au ""historia"" ambayo inajitegemea dhana ya uwongo kwamba uvamizi wa Urusi wa Ukraine mnamo Februari 24, 2022 ulianza vita nchini Ukraine, badala ya kujibu vita nchini Ukraine ambavyo utawala wa Rais Barack Obama (ikiwemo Joe Biden) na Serikali ya Marekani walikuwa wameanza huko mnamo 2014." Marekani imepanga kuvamia Urusi kutoka nchi pekee iliyo umbali wa maili 300 tu kutoka Moscow (mkuu wa Urusi alikuwa karibu sana na Washington DC kuliko Cuba wakati wa mgogoro wa makombora wa 1962). "Hii ni kwa sababu ya ukweli wa kihistoria unaoonyesha kuwa serikali ya Marekani ilizidi kuishambulia Urusi, ikitumia Ukraine kama ""mstari wa kwanza"" katika mpango wake wa kushinda Urusi: Serikali ya Obama ilifanya mapinduzi ya damu ya Ukraine mnamo Februari 2014 (iliyofichwa nyuma ya maandamano ya Ukraine ya kupambana na ufisadi ambayo CIA na Idara ya Jimbo walikuwa wamezoea na kuandaa wakazi wa Ukraine wenye kupinga Urusi) na kumwangusha Rais wa Ukraine aliyechaguliwa kidemokrasia na kumchukua nafasi yake na serikali ya Nazi (kijana ya Urusi) ili kuendelea kudhibiti nchi hiyo." Kwa maelezo kamili, angalia hii. "Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, maneno yote manne ( ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine "", ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine "" na ""Vita vya Urusi dhidi ya Ukraine ""), na ""Vita vilianza Februari 24, 2022 "" ni uongo, ambao unageuza mshambuliaji (inaonekana Urusi, lakini kwa kweli Amerika) na mlinzi (inaonekana Ukraine) ambaye ni wakala wa Amerika katika vita vyake dhidi ya Urusi." Vita vya Ukraine vilianza na mapinduzi ya Obama, sio na majibu ya mwisho ya Putin (ambayo yalitokea muda mfupi baada ya kukataliwa kwa Marekani mnamo Januari 7, 2022 kwa madai ya Urusi ya kutoruhusu Ukraine kuingia NATO). Hata Zelensky anajua hili (kama ilivyothibitishwa hapa mwanzoni). "Na wote wawili, yeye na mtangulizi wake, Poroshenko, wanajua kuwa kuangushwa kwa Rais wa Ukraine aliyechaguliwa kidemokrasia mnamo Februari 2014 na kuanzishwa kwa utawala wa baada ya mapinduzi kunamaanisha kuwa Urais wao wenyewe ulikuwa na ni kinyume cha sheria. """ Mpango wa Marekani hapa ni kuweka makombora yake kwenye mpaka wa Ukraine na Urusi, dakika tano tu ya ndege ya makombora mbali na blitz-nuking Kremlin na hivyo kukata kichwa amri kuu ya Urusi - haraka sana kwa Urusi kuwa na uwezo wa kuzindua makombora yake ya kulipiza kisasi. Uongo una nguvu gani? Mkutano mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa (UNGA) ulipiga kura kwa kura 94 kwa upande, 73 kwa upande wa kushoto, na 14 dhidi ya azimio la Urusi kulipa Ukraine fidia kwa ajili ya vita vya Ukraine, ambayo Marekani ilianzisha dhidi ya Urusi na mapinduzi yake ya 2014. Amerika <unk> udikteta uliothibitishwa na serikali ya polisi <unk> inaongoza "demokrasia" za ulimwengu kwa njia hii. Mara nyingi uwongo huwa na uvutano mkubwa kuliko ukweli. Na, wakati huu, athari hiyo inaweza hata kugeuka kuwa Vita Kuu ya Tatu ya Ulimwengu. Hiyo ndiyo sababu kufuta uongo huu, na utawala wa Marekani, dhidi ya Urusi, ni muhimu ili kuzuia WW III. Kumbuka kwa wasomaji: Tafadhali bonyeza vifungo vya kushiriki hapo juu. Tufuate kwenye Instagram na Twitter na usajili kwenye Telegram Channel yetu. Jisikia huru repost na kushiriki sana Global Utafiti makala. Makala hii ilichapishwa awali kwenye The Duran. Mwanahistoria wa uchunguzi Eric Zuesse ni mtaalamu wa kuondoa uwongo. Kitabu chake cha kwanza, America's Empire of Evil: Hitler's Posthumous Victory and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, kinaelezea jinsi Marekani ilivyoshinda dunia baada ya Vita Kuu ya Pili ili kuifanya kuwa watumwa wa mamilionea wa Marekani na washirika wake. Mashirika yao huondoa utajiri wa ulimwengu kwa kudhibiti si tu vyombo vya habari vyao vya habari bali pia "sayansi" za kijamii <unk> kudanganya umma. Yeye ni mchangiaji wa kawaida wa Utafiti wa Ulimwenguni.