Without the Ukrainians' three century long desire to pry themselves away from the Russian Empire, US machinations would have been meaningless. Russia' genocidal Ukraine erasure project predates US involvement by nearly three centuries, starting with Peter, continuing under Catherine and intensified under the Alexanders: From https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/lost-in-russified-whataboutistan-ee8920632d0b :
“”Little Russia, Livonia, and Finland are provinces governed by confirmed privileges, and it would be improper to violate them by abolishing all at once. To call them foreign and deal with them on that basis is more than erroneous-it would be sheer stupidity. These provinces, as well as Smolensk, should be Russified as gently as possible so that they cease looking to the forest like wolves. When the Hetmans are gone from Little Russia, every effort should be made to eradicate from memory the period and the hetmans, let alone promote anyone to that office.”
Russification resting on mythologized history was a constant under Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet regimes:
https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/language2.jpg
Alexanders II and III: banning baptisms and all media in the Ukrainian language. It was legal to speak banned Ukrainian on the Warsaw to Moscow train before the Polish-Ukrainian border. But then speak Russian and wait until it crosses the Ukrainian border back into Russia before switching back to Ukrainian.
Nicholases I and II: Repression of the national awakening poet Taras Shevchenko and absorption of Ukraine’s Uniate Church into the Russian Orthodox Church. ”writers should be most careful when handling the question of Little Russian ethnicity and language, lest love for Little Russia outweigh affection for the fatherland-the Empire.”
Stalin: blame the Holodomor famine on Ukrainian nationalists and Polish saboteurs. “”In the 1930s, the Russification of the Ukrainians proceeded at a rate that imperial proponents of a big Russian nation could only have dreamed of.” — Ukrainian historian Sergiy Plokhy
Brezhnev: banning university theses in Ukrainian.
And Putin’s “Ukraine is not a real country George”
The Valuev Circular, issued by the minister of internal affairs of the Russian Empire, stating that the Ukrainian language “never existed, doesn’t exist, and cannot exist.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine
Russia needs to follow the Japanese path to de-imperialization:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/russia-ukraine-war-empire-demolition-the-only-endgame-part-2-ea906e9e507e . Watch Sokurov's Hirohito to understand its future.
This Brzezinski is now more useful on how to channel check a war and the descent of a dying mafia with a flag empire into warlordism than the one you cited:
https://medium.com/@nadinbrzezinski/shoigu-active-measures-internal-conflict-af78b1bfdb58
My reference to "omnipotent Uncle Sam" was ironic and sarcastic. Your faith in the omnipotence and competence of the American national security state and its covert operations is touchingly naive.
For every Iran 1953 or Guatemala 1954 there are more Bay of Pigs, Dienbienphus and Saigons (1963 and 1975). Watch Winter on Fire. How the Maidan Revolution developed organically was far more important than anything outsiders did. You confuse correlation with causation while being utterly silent on the war crimes of Bucha/Irpin/Izyum/ Mariupol/Kramatorsk, the mass deportations, filtration camps and torture rooms found in every deoccupied town. Like Russia's exterminationist leaders and TV talking heads, you genocidally deny Ukraine's existence.
