.@jimmy_dore: "They had the Ukraine war in the chamber, which they had been preparing for at least a decade. Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper are never going to tell you that the CIA got in bed with right-wing Nazis in Ukraine to overthrow their democratically elected government.

Why? For economic reasons. They got a better deal from Putin and Russia than they were getting from the European Union, and that cannot stand. So, we overthrew their democratically elected president.

So what happened after we overthrew the government in Ukraine in 2014 was the Russian-speaking ethnics in the eastern part of Ukraine didn't want to go along with that coup government, and so the Ukrainian government started bombing them.

They started shelling them, which is why we had to have peace agreements, Minsk Accords I and II, and Angela Merkel revealed that they never meant to go along with those. They just used that as a time to build up the Ukrainian military to get ready for a war with Russia that they were going to provoke, which everyone knows that they did provoke.

They provoked it using Kamala Harris at the Munich Security Conference when she said we're going to put Ukraine in NATO. That was the final straw. All Putin wanted was I can't have you putting nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and I can't have NATO right on my border. But the way it's told in the United States is that Putin is an evil dictator, and he just woke up one day and decided to invade Ukraine.

And then, of course, he blew up his own pipeline, the Nord Stream pipeline, which actually screws over Europe and Germany. People say I'm turning Democrats into Republicans and stuff like this. No, I'm trying to wake up Democrats and Republicans to the uniparty that has been running things. Every war, every coup that we do, there seem to be some natural resources that we are actually after, and Lindsey Graham just said it: there's $11 trillion in rare earth minerals under Eastern Ukraine. He blurts it out like his boyfriend's name on Valentine's Day."