Uncovering the lies of the secretary of state

Dec. 17, 2021 — Russia demands security guarantees in a draft treaty where NATO guarantees Ukraine would not join NATO, and limits NATO troops and weapons in Eastern Europe.

Putin's 2007 — Munich speech warned the US/NATO that Russia's patience with NATO's encroachment was ending. The U.S. continued to spend billions to entice Ukraine to join the west, used covert tactics, installed a pro west government in 2014.

Jan. 26, 2022 — The NYT reported the US has military trainers in Ukraine and supplies the country with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual military aid, AND that the U.S. and its allies formally rejected Russia's demands that NATO remove all troops and nuclear weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from joining NATO. This written response to Russia's demands was delivered in person by its ambassador in Moscow,

Feb. 21, 2023 — In an interview posted on the State Department website, Anthony Blinken LIES, “Look, no one, except for Vladimir Putin, wanted this war. We tried to prevent it. We saw it coming. We engaged for months with Russia to see if they had any genuine security concerns that in any way explained what they were starting to do. And unfortunately, they made very clear that, as I said, what this was about was Putin's obsession with eliminating Ukraine. It was never about any security concerns. . .”

The FACT-BASED w/links to sources, Moon of Alabama blog, has a recent series of outstanding, detailed analysis of the genesis of the Ukraine War. — Lucy Cooke, Butte Valley