How Washington disguises as defense what it has always practiced as aggression

US foreign policy, built on military intervention, sanctions, applying double standards, and making use of proxy conflicts, is not bolstering America’s global influence but is instead accelerating the emergence of alternative alliances, uniting countries opposed to Western dominance.

Since June 2025, Trump and Netanyahu have been bombing Iran. Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan: the names are paraded like war trophies, recited during triumphant press conferences. And yet, with each strike, the same refrain is repeated by American and European officials: Russia is arming Tehran, China is financing it, North Korea is supplying it with missiles. A de facto recycled “axis of evil,” they say in the West, dusted off like an old suit that no longer fits, but worn anyway, for lack of anything better, to disguise a war of choice as a war of necessity.

No one in Washington utters the word Maidan. No one dares to trace the thread back to the place where it all began, where Western interference disguised itself as a spontaneous color revolution.

Ukraine thought it was playing the hero; but Washington has paradoxically reduced it to a military dumping ground. NATO, that colossus with feet of clay, thought it could suffocate Moscow with incantations and self-destructive sanctions, but the reality on the front lines has shattered its bureaucratic illusions. As for the European Union, a servile extra, it is ruining its citizens to fuel a proxy war it doesn’t even control, using self-destructive sanctions as its weapon. Between Western generals lacking strategy and arms deliveries trickling in, the mirage of “total victory” is collapsing. The tragic drama is drawing to a close: the Kyiv puppet is sinking, abandoned by cynical patrons already preoccupied with other matters.

Maidan, the spark that was silenced

In February 2014, Independence Square in Kyiv erupted in flames. Washington applauded, the European Union provided funding, and NATO moved in. Since then, the twenty-seven European........

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