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How Media Turned Election Favorite into a Villain for Telling the Truth:

‘The West provoked the Ukraine conflict’ says a major contender for party power in the upcoming British stage-managed election.

In fact, the REFORM UK party’s leader simply repeated what everyone knows is the undeniable truth.

NATO and EU expansion plans made Russia believe the West posed a threat, the Eurosceptic Nigel Farage has said. Western powers essentially goaded Russia into launching a military operation against Ukraine by refusing to abandon plans for NATO and EU enlargement (to within 300 km of Moscow), Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, has said.

In an interview with the BBC, Farage, famous for his prominent role in the Brexit campaign and his passionate anti-immigration views, recalled that he warned of a potential war in Ukraine as early as 2014, following the Western-backed coup in Kyiv.

‘It was obvious to me that the ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man [Russian President Vladimir Putin] a reason… to say ‘they are coming after us again’ and go to war,’ he said.

While Farage conceded that it was Putin’s responsibility to send troops to Eastern Ukraine on preventative grounds – with the support of the peoples of the Eastern regions’ electorate, Farage insisted that ‘we’ve provoked this war.’

In essence, Farage caused Press and Political hysteria simply by correctly observing that The Emperor is naked. The emperor is not wearing any clothes.

Farage’s comments have predictably sparked outrage from UK officials, with Home Secretary James Cleverly (a citizen of Sierra Leone, Africa) claiming the Reform UK leader was ’echoing Putin’s justification for the invasion of Ukraine.’

In September 2014, while fierce battles were raging in Donbas, Farage denounced what he called the West’s unnecessary provocation of Moscow. He argued that it stemmed from NATO and the EU’s aspiration to absorb Ukraine. 

‘The moral of the story is, if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don’t be surprised when he reacts,’ Farage said at the time.

On February 24, 2022 – the day Russia sent troops into Ukraine – Farage acknowledged that Putin ’has gone much further than I thought he would,’ emphasizing that ’it made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.’

Russia has for years voiced concerns about NATO expansion towards its borders, seeing it as an existential threat. Members of the US-led military bloc agreed in 2008 that Ukraine would eventually join, but gave no specific timetable.

Washington-controlled Kyiv officially declared NATO membership a strategic objective in 2019. In 2022, after four of its former regions voted to join Russia, Ukraine submitted an application to join the bloc.

Moscow has repeatedly stated that Ukraine’s neutral status is one of the key goals of its military campaign. The issue loomed large at the Istanbul peace talks in the spring of 2022, which both Russian officials and David Arakhamia, the head of Ukraine’s delegation at the negotiations, have said were derailed by then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who advised Ukraine to keep fighting. STORY ~ MICHAEL WALSH VETERAN JOURNALIST

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