Jimmy Dore: Afghanistan Withdrawal Led to Ukraine War Escalation

DORE: “When Joe Biden was pulling out of Afghanistan... I knew it. They wouldn’t allow him to end that war unless he had another war going, and that was the Ukraine war, which we instigated.

… it started in 2014 with the might on coup, which was when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of of Ukraine, and we got in bed with the Azov battalion, the Nazis over there. And that was because Ukraine wanted to be closer with Russia economically than the European Union… it’s just an economic war.

… people think that Putin just woke up one day in the middle of I’m gonna invade Ukraine just for kicks. No, it was because the people, after they couped that government, the Russian speaking ethnic people in the eastern part of Ukraine called the Donbas, didn’t want to go along with that coup government, and so the Ukraine Government started shelling them…”