What seems obvious and that everyone accepted without flinching in blood-curdling unanimity is that Putin would be a new Hitler who seeks to conquer the territory of Ukraine. Russia’s territory would still not be big enough for the 150 million people who live there. Putin is said to be a bloodthirsty leader who considers it necessary to reconquer the former territory of the Soviet Union by force. The Russian state would therefore be an imperialist state because everyone agrees on this on French television panel discussions.

This simplistic and caricatured vision contributes to the clash of civilizations and exploits the prevailing Russophobia. All those who question it are pro-Putin. There is no room for doubt. Unanimity must remain intact.

The doubt is that this vision of things could ignore the thousand provocative gestures of the USA which led to the intervention of February 24, 2022. We would in particular ignore the Maidan coup d’état coordinated by the Americans in 2014, as well as American omnipresence in the decision-making process of the new state, and the training and equipment of the Ukrainian army.

Another reason for doubt: Russia may have been forced to intervene after all attempts to reach a security agreement had failed. The doubt also concerns the fact that Russia wanted to reach an agreement as early as April 2022 in Istanbul, as reported in a 14-page document published by Le Figaro, while the desire to reach an agreement was completely absent on the American side. . In short, the doubt concerns the possibility that the Americans used the Ukrainian people to weaken Russia.

Who then showed empathy towards the Ukrainian people? Are they those who favored direct American intervention leading to a murderous escalation in which the Ukrainian people would be sacrificed? Or those who denounced American interventionism because they sensed the possible sacrifice of the Ukrainian people being used to weaken the Russians?

To maintain this doubt, it is not necessary to develop a conspiracy theory. We can just take a look at the Rand Corporation document which set out in 2019 how to weaken the Russian competitor and how this could lead to an escalation of the conflict. Rand’s suggestions were implemented to the letter, knowing full well that these measures would lead to escalation. The doubt then is that perhaps the United States wanted this escalation. Hence the hundred billion dollars sent to the other side of the world.
Those who believe that all this is done in the name of democracy and freedom are spectacularly and disconcertingly naive. Geopolitical ignorance ends up having a price. It thus makes it possible to endorse a brand new set of provocations by now allowing Ukraine to launch American missiles into Russian territory, including on the radars that are able to detect nuclear missiles. This provocation of course passes under the radar screens of the “free” Western media, even though it is crucial information of an exceptional gravity. Biden, who supplies the genocide bombs to Gaza, seeks to provoke Putin just as Netanyahu is currently seeking to provoke Hezbollah.
I do not claim to be able to shake the Western consensus, however irrational it may be. But there are several hundreds of us in the West who have come out of the cave, far, far away from television screens.