TRUMP AND PUTIN TO MEET ON UKRAINE
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shaking hands, symbolizing Ukraine war peace talks and media controversy
Have we been told the truth about 'evil Russia', or was Ukraine wrecked for an un-necessary war that NATO wanted?
Aug. 13, 2025: Are the Corporate Media misinforming Canadians about the Russia / Ukraine war? CBC just had a headline story on its website titled: Ukrainians brace for betrayal as Trump prepares to meet Putin. Well, Ukrainians have already been betrayed for years, and murdered for years, and with millions turned into refugees by this crazy war that never had to happen and which was in my opinion pushed for by NATO and the combined North American and European political and corporate elites.
But that story of NATO wanting the war cannot be 'officially told' in Canada. We Canadians are only allowed to hear the official story, from our official corporate media and government sources. And the story we are told is that WE care only about democracy and freedom and justice, while the Russians are the evil enemy (as always) ... and they want to take over the world. And maybe that story is correct, but after a lifetime of my own side lying to me about so many important things, I simply don't believe our own rulers anymore.
And when we have this kind of censorship of the truth, when only 'the official story' can be told, then do we really have a democracy? Because remember, when there is censorship - then who is doing the censoring and in whose interests are they doing it? And in Canada and the United States, I'd say that Big Business is doing the censoring, because big business owns the big media, and I believe big business also controls our top politicians and our governments.
And if they are allowed to censor and control the information that we are getting, and if they are allowed to only tell us the facts they want us to know, and if we believe what they are telling us, and we think we are getting the truth .... then then they will largely control our thinking. And that is NOT a good thing for us. That's why a truly 'free media' is believed to be a fundamental part of a functioning democracy. But we don't have that free press, which is a big part of why our democracy is virtually on life support. Which is another idea we are never allowed to hear; instead we are told we are a great and wonderful democracy. But have a look around; where IS that great democracy? Do we citizens have a voice in anything that is going on in Canada? And if we 'the people' don't have a voice, then where is our democracy?
There is an entirely different story about this whole Russia / Ukraine war. In this 'other story', Russia is not really the enemy, and instead the real enemy, the real cause of this war, is the U.S. Deep State Military Industrial Complex Government. They are the ones who really started this war. And believe me - a good case can be made for this argument. I don't know what is right and what is wrong or what's true and false, but I DO know there is another side to this Russia / Ukraine war story and I DO know that we are only getting told one side of the story. And I DO know that that is a very dangerous situation for us. Especially if we believe what we are being told and trust those who are telling us.
Let me give you another side of the story in a nutshell. And let me say that this 'other side story' is supported by thousands of experts, professors, ex-military, diplomats, journalists, and etc. Of course this does not make 'the other story' correct, but that story IS there, and we are definitely not allowed to hear it and try to make up our own minds. Instead, we are officially told that anyone who doesn't believe the official story is a Putin-loving mass murderer of Ukrainians.
So, in the other side of the story, there was a Ukrainian government back around 2012 that had been supposedly democratically elected but was not supported by the U.S. So the CIA and etc. brought about a coup in Ukraine and got rid of a pro-Russian government and replaced them with a pro-NATO and anti-Russian government. And that CIA led coup led directly to the war that has wrecked Ukraine.
The coup happened in early 2014. First the Ukrainian government of the day was overthrown. Then, Russia annexed Crimea to protect its interests in Crimea (which had been a part of Russia during the time of the Soviet Union).
At about the same time, for whatever reasons, a war began between Ukraine proper and the eastern parts of Ukraine (the Donbass area) where the populations were largely Russian speaking and friendly to Russia. Those areas of Ukraine did not want to be a part of this new anti-Russian Ukraine. I don't know who started this fighting, but those attacks on the Donbass region led to the deaths of thousands of people in those areas. And somewhere along the line, those areas were annexed by Russia with popular support from the people who live there.
There was also talk that powerful forces within the new Ukrainian government were neo-Nazis. Russia had suffered very heavily in WW2 from the Nazi attacks, and Russia has no intention of allowing Nazi sympathetic forces on its borders. In 2017 the Ukrainian government began to push for NATO membership. In May of 2019, a popular actor, Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected president basically on a platform of peace and better relations with Russia. He was elected in part because Ukrainians wanted peace and better relations with Russia. But once elected Mr. Zelenskyy seemingly decided to change his ideas of peace. Ukraine moved closer to NATO membership and shortly thereafter Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia called it a defensive act because they would not allow Ukraine to become part of NATO, and lots of western experts agreed with, or at least could understand this point of view on Russia's part, but that idea was not allowed into the western media. (And I'm not even saying these ideas are right, but I am saying that we are not even allowed to hear about these points of view in our corporate media or from our top politicians. And that is a dangerous kind of censorship in my opinion. We are instead told to believe the official story,and are also told that those who don't believe it are not good people.)
WHO SABOTOGED THE PEACE PLANS? Prior to the war, and as the war was beginning, there were major peace talks underway for months, and these talks were torpedoed by, from what I have heard, the Biden Government. Now maybe that's wrong, and it was Russian intransigence that stopped the peace talks, but lots of experts say it was the U.S. government. But those peace talks, and who killed them, are ignored by the North American media and governments.
I don't know what the truth about the "Minsk" peace talks is, but again we were only told one side of the story. What I want from our media and politicians is The Truth. But instead all we get is 'The Official Story' which I no longer trust after a lifetime of being lied to by the official stories.
In conclusion ..... Censorship is dangerous. And here in Canada we are being told a completely censored story about Russia / Ukraine. Which doesn't make it wrong ... but believing it is not wise in my opinion. It benefits our ruling class if we believe that Russia is our enemy, when really our ruling class itself may be our greatest enemy. And they always want us focused on 'outside enemies' because it distracts us from seeing who our real enemies are. That's the situation we are in. In my opinion we need access to full and honest information, and we'd be better off in many ways if we were getting that. Don't trust or believe the corporate owned media. Don't trust or believe our top politicians... Sadly, these people don't work for us and it's dangerous for us to trust them. On the other hand, if this story is incorrect and wrong, please let me know and I will endeavor to make the needed corrections. AND ... here below is a story from the CBC about Russia / Ukraine which I think illustrates what concerns me about this whole war and the story about this war.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukrainians-trump-putin-1.7606096
