Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Laying Blame For Every Ukrainian And Russian Death In This War ...and for every extra penny you are paying at the gas pump, and for the destabilization of world affairs, and the possible collapse of the dollar, and the risk of nuclear holocaust. "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." -Edmund Burke IN LAST WEEK'S NEWSLETTER, I LED OFF with the backstory of the current events in Ukraine, explaining the provocation that brought Russia to invade Ukraine: In a nutshell, a violent US-engineered coup had overthrown the existing Russia-friendly elected regime in early 2014; the US had installed hand-picked Russia-hostile American puppets drawn from the neo-Nazis population of the western part of the country in that elected government's place; the neo-Nazis had promptly launched a campaign of violent oppression against the eastern Ukrainian population whose electoral will they had undone; the conflict between the usurpers in Kiev and the disenfranchised in eastern Ukraine momentarily halted in late 2014 and early 2015 when the Kiev regime-- under pressure from Russia, Germany and France-- agreed to cede autonomy to the the affected regions (Donetsk and Luhansk), but this agreement has been ignored ever since; and the neo-Nazi usurpers also began lobbying hard for admission to NATO (an alliance whose chief purpose is the suppression of Russia), raising the prospect of nuclear missiles being placed a minute or two's flight time from Moscow. Add to that summary that the US had unilaterally abrogated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, and has steadily indicated that NATO membership was soon to be extended to Ukraine. Also add that the coup-installed government, now featuring the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky after elections from which the participation of the Ukraine's eastern population was excluded, is in no way a democracy (contrary to the incessant propagandistic assertions of every Western government and media mouthpiece-- all of whom seem to be taking bribes from Ukraine-- but wait, I'm getting ahead of myself...). Tulsi Gabbard summarizes THAT issue nicely here: Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/185.htm#1