How the West lost the war it thought it had won - Coda Story

How the West lost the war it thought it had won - Coda Story

Three years ago this week, as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, an extraordinary wave of global solidarity swept across the world. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities from London to Sydney. Tech giants blocked Russian state media. Even Switzerland abandoned its neutrality to freeze Russian assets. Only five countries voted against a United Nations resolution calling for Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukrainian territory, com…

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine after months of practically begging the West for security guarantees. The invasion was not “unprovoked” nor “full-scale” as the Western talking points say. But we were against the invasion from the first moment and have not changed our position on it. We actually warned against this war starting in the winter of 2014, but unfortunately were never heard. On the other hand, we cannot condone the lies ab…