A look back at RFK Jr. detonating the West’s biggest geopolitical lie

He said what no U.S. politician was allowed to say out loud, that the war in Ukraine didn’t begin in 2022. It didn’t even begin in 2014. It began in 1990, with a betrayal so foundational it fractured the architecture of European peace, and laid the groundwork for everything that followed: NATO’s Eastward march, Ukraine’s ruin, and the hybrid war now convulsing the world.

That year, the Soviet Union withdrew 450,000 troops from East Germany. Not a skirmish, not a bargain for territory, a full-scale strategic, agreed upon pullout. In exchange, U.S. officials gave their word: “Not one inch eastward.” That wasn’t propaganda, it was documented. In declassified U.S. memoranda, diplomatic cables, and NATO meeting records, Secretary of State James Baker, President George H.W. Bush, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and NATO’s own Secretary General all echoed the same line, no NATO expansion beyond Germany.

They didn’t write it into a treaty, not because the promise lacked weight, but because the plan was never to keep it. That was the brilliance of the deception, get Gorbachev to demobilize, to open space and fill it later with missiles, bases, and encircle Russia.

Gorbachev didn’t completely misread the West. He misread the moment. He naively believed the Cold War had ended, a handshake, not a handover. But Washington didn’t see peace. It saw a unipolar window, a brief chance to rewrite history (a la end of history), redraw borders, and neuter its only true civilizational rival before it could ever rise again. The promise wasn’t broken out of negligence. It was a calculated maneuver, a velvet deception, designed to coax the Soviet Union into disarming itself so the West could encircle what remained.

What followed wasn’t diplomacy. It was conquest through delay.

NATO crept east by over a thousand miles. Fourteen countries absorbed. Missiles moved in. Exercises in the Baltics. Airfields in Poland. Radar stations in Romania. The ring tightened, and every Russian protest was mocked as paranoia, even as the alliance that promised not to move was building an offensive perimeter around Moscow.

And then came Ukraine.

RFK Jr. is one of a few American figures with the clarity to connect what happened next. Because behind the flags, hashtags, and televised appeals for “democracy,” this war was never about defending sovereignty. It’s about laundering money, and laundering the collapse of the old world order through a fire that someone else has to die in.

Congress authorized a couple hundred billions in “aid.” That aid didn't go to Ukrainian schools, hospitals, or pensions. It flows directly into the balance sheets of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, which delivered weapons in exchange for state contracts, then return the profits to their shareholders. And who holds the shares? BlackRock. Vanguard. State Street.

That’s layer one,the war as stimulus. Layer two is much worse.

Ukraine was never meant to be rebuilt. It was meant to be collateral.

Because while the war raged, the West was already sketching the post-war carve-up. In 2022, Ukraine signed an agreement with BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory to manage its “recovery framework.” Translation: BlackRock would help structure the incoming capital, loans, and investments needed to rebuild the country, under the friendly guidance of those who also hold Ukraine’s war debt.

This was the endgame, Ukraine’s future mortgaged to pay for its destruction.
Part 2/2 In the fantasy sold to Western publics, Ukraine would win. Then rebuild. Then integrate with Europe. In reality, the loans are unpayable (it never was meant to be repaid by fiat, looting Ukraine's national assets was the game), the infrastructure is gone, the population is evicerated, and the vulture investors are circling, not to save the country, but to harvest it. With one hiccup, that of a Russian victory.

The recovery plan was never humanitarian. It was a boardroom playbook. BlackRock structures the loans. McKinsey fills in the spreadsheets. Monsanto patents the seeds. Bayer owns the soil. Cargill buys the silos. Halliburton draws the blueprints. Shell bids on the gas fields. This isn’t a Marshall Plan, but a leveraged buyout underwritten by the blood of a betrayed people.

And none of this could happen if Ukraine retained sovereignty. That’s why it had to be broken, politically, economically, militarily. And that’s exactly what happened.

In 2014, when Yanukovych refused to sign the EU Association Agreement, the deal that would’ve handed Ukraine’s trade, currency, and economic policy to Brussels, neocon Washington intervened. The color revolution on the Maidan was not a spontaneous cry for freedom. It was a regime change op, executed in the open. We have the receipts. In a now-infamous call, Victoria Nuland chose the new government in advance: “Yats is the guy.” The State Department picked the cabinet. Ukraine’s fate was decided from outside.

Then came Minsk, not a peace process, but a stall tactic. Merkel and Poroshenko both admitted Minsk was never designed to be enforced. It was meant to buy time. While Ukraine was pretending to negotiate, NATO was training troops, fortifying positions, preparing the battlefield.

But it backfired. Russia didn’t wait. And now the fantasy is in ruins.

Russia didn’t collapse. It fortified economic firewalls, building sovereign infrastructure like SPFS, its alternative to SWIFT, long before the West pulled the trigger. It turned over 19 rounds of EU sanctions into rocket fuel, catapulting itself to the rank of the world’s fourth-largest economy. Its economy realigned east. Its diplomacy expanded south. Its military might reestablished, and on the fronts that matter (missile and drone tech), surpassed Western parity. The plan, to use Ukraine as a spearhead to fracture Russia, then feed off the chaos, has failed. And for the Russophobes who sold it as strategy, the result is absolute humiliation.

Real decisions were made far from Kiev, in the embassy corridors of DC and London, where strategy is scripted by CIA and MI6 coordinators, and refined by Pentagon war planners and NATO’s forward command structures. The financial architecture is dictated by IMF technocrats, World Bank emissaries, and the ever-present calculus of BlackRock and global capital.

Narrative control outsourced to Atlantic Council affiliates, NGO apparatchiks, and the sprawling ecosystem of Western-funded “civil society” instruments whose real mandate is to simulate consent while neutralizing dissent. The language of democracy is retained, but only as a branding exercise.

And through it all, the Ukrainian people, courageous, exhausted, misled, continue to bleed, not for sovereignty, but for a geopolitical hallucination drafted in Western capitals.

Ukraine has already sold nearly 30% of its farmland to foreign conglomerates. It has traded its independence for a lie. It has outlawed opposition parties and extended martial law indefinitely. It is no longer a nation, it is a Western asset under hostile management.

This was never a war for democracy.

It was a war for markets, for access, for contracts, a war to secure the right of empire to loot without resistance.

But every empire dies the moment it forgets what its promises once meant.
And this one, bloated with nuclear debt, drowned in lies, choking on its own illusions, is already being buried under the betrayal it thought no one would remember.