Mike Benz

Wow.

And this started in 2014, you said?

2014 is when NATO began this in Central and Eastern Europe.

That was really, if you will, the sort of agent zero.

That was sort of the, you know, if this was a sort of Ebola outbreak, that was sort of the lab in which it was incubated or the monkey, you know, that first bit a human.

And this was, you know, from their perspective,

The State Department, USAID, the military pumped $5 billion into Ukrainian civil society to topple the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014.

This is Viktor Yanukovych's government.

And I'm not even weighing in normatively about whether that's a good or a bad thing.

But the plain fact is, is we did overthrow that government, which was democratically elected by the Ukrainian people.

We did it through the same means that

were done on January 6th.

This was just a straight-up riot to take to the main parliament building square and overrun it through violence and seize control over government.

It's everything that was accused of January 6th protesters, but our U.S.

Embassy did it.

Victoria Nuland was handing out cookies and water bottles to the militias that the State Department and USAID and all these different CIA-backed channels had been funding with billions of dollars.

But they were not expecting what came next, which was this countercoup.

The entire eastern side of the country declared itself to be a secessionist breakaway state.

militarily backstopped by Russia.

Crimea voted in an independent referendum to join the Russian Federation.