By Independent News Roundup
JFK Jnr (00:00.174)
You know, Putin every day says, I want to settle the war. Let's negotiate. And Zelensky has said, we're not going to negotiate. But Zelensky didn't want to start that way. I don't want to, you know, belabor the history. But Russia was invaded three times through Ukraine. The last time Hitler killed one out of every seven Russians. They don't want to have Ukraine join NATO. So when the wall came down in the Soviet Union, Europe.
Gorbachev destroyed himself politically by doing something that was very, very courageous. He went to Bush and he said, I'm going to allow you to reunify Germany under a NATO army.
I'm going to remove 450 ,000 Soviet troops. But I want your commitment. After that, you will not move NATO one inch to the east. And we solemnly swore we wouldn't do it. Well, then in 97, Brzezinski was the first of the neocons said, we're going to move NATO 1 ,000 miles to the east.
and take 15 countries into it and surround the Soviet Union. So then we not only move it into 14 new nations, but we unilaterally walk away from our two nuclear weapons treaties with the Russians. And we put Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland 12 minutes from Moscow. When Russians did that to Cuba in 62, we came this close to nuclear war until they removed them. So the Russians don't want nukes 400 miles from Moscow. We
then overthrow the Ukraine government in 2014 their elected government and put in a Western sympathetic government Russia then has to go
JFK Jnr (01:43.63)
into Crimea because they have a port. It's their only warm water port. And they know the new government that we just installed is going to invite the U .S. Navy into their port. So Russia then went into Crimea without firing a shot because the people of Crimea are Russian. Then the new Ukrainian government we installed started killing ethnic Russians in Donbass and Lugansk, and they voted to leave and join Russia. Putin said, I don't want them. Let's give them protection and give them semi -autonomy and make an agreement.
to keep NATO out of Ukraine. That treaty was written by Germany, France, Russia, and England, the Minsk Accords. And the Ukrainian parliament, which is controlled by ultrarighters, and that's a nice way of talking about them, refused to sign it. Zelensky runs in 2019. He's an actor. Why did he get elected? With 70 % of the vote? Because he promised to sign the Minsk Accords. He promised peace.
He gets in there and he pivots. Nobody can explain why, but we know why. Because he was threatened with death by ultraritis in his government and a withdrawal of support by the United States by Victoria Nuland, who's the leading neocons and state department. We told him he could not sign it.
So then the Russians go in, they don't send a big army, they only send 40 ,000 people. It's a nation of 44 million people. They clearly do not intend to conquer Ukraine. But they want us back at the negotiating table. We won't allow Zelensky to go back. So he goes to Israel and Turkey and says, will you please help me negotiate a treaty? The Russians just want to guarantee that Ukraine won't join NATO. Zelensky signs the treaty. Putin's people signed the treaty. And Putin starts withdrawing the Russian troops.
in good faith. And what happens? Joe Biden sends Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, over to Ukraine in April and forces him to tear up the treaty. And since then, 450 ,000 kids have died who none of them should have died. 5-8 Ukrainians die for every one Russian that dies,
JFK Jnr (03:49.87)
They don't have any men left. You know, we're giving them all these weapons, but they don't have men left. It's a catastrophe and we look kind of like the aggressor. That's the way the rest of the world sees us.