The goal of this post is to collect a list of useful sources regarding NATO in general, as well as the context of the war in Ukraine, to be used to educate new leftists or anyone else who needs it.

If you comment, please include sources as well as a brief description of each source’s contents. Ideally, use bourgeois sources that the average Western “left-leaning” liberal would consider trustworthy to highlight changes in reporting over the years.

This post will be gradually updated as new comments appear, and will then be pinned to this community. (This will probably take a while, but you can still direct people here to look at the sources in the comments.)

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2014 US-backed coup

Nazism in Ukraine

Government oppression of Russian-speaking population

Genocide in the Donbas

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  • itspostingtime@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    Donbass (2016) - War documentary by Anne-Laure Bonnel. (TankieTube, Internet Archive) - A French director goes to Donbas region, showing the state of things as it is being bombed, interviewing people in bomb shelters, hospitals, on the street, etc. CW: Graphic scenes, deaths/injuries shown.

    Articles/videos by Geopolitical Economy Report. He has several articles/videos worth checking out, but I’ll just list two:

    1. “West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections” - “… starting in 2017, representatives of Western governments and corporations quietly held annual conferences in which they discussed ways to profit from the civil war they were fueling in Ukraine. In these meetings, Western political and business leaders outlined a series of aggressive right-wing reforms they hoped to impose on Ukraine, including widespread privatization of state-owned industries and deregulation of the economy.”

    2. “CBS censors its own report on Ukraine weapons corruption” - “Under Ukrainian government pressure, CBS News censored its own documentary “Arming Ukraine,” which showed that just around 30% of the weapons Western governments have sent actually go to the frontlines, with widespread corruption and black markets.”

    “The Nulands: A family business of perpetual war” - Article about the role of Victoria Nuland and husband Robert Kagan within the military-industrial complex as well as going into detail on Nuland’s career and involvement in Ukraine. “Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia – and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.”

    On Reinhard Gehlen, the CIA, and NATO: “The CIA’s Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis” - "The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. … Bolted lock, stock, and barrel into the CIA, Gehlen’s Nazi-infested spy apparatus functioned as America’s secret eyes and ears in central Europe. The Org would go on to play a major role within NATO, supplying two-thirds of raw intelligence on the Warsaw Pact countries. Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service until he retired in 1968, Gehlen exerted considerable influence on U.S. policy toward the Soviet bloc. "

    “U.S. Built NATO By Putting Nazi War Criminals in Charge” - Not a bourgeois source as this is on the page of a communist party, but it’s basically just a list of several Nazis who got positions in NATO.