<https://chasfreeman.net/the-many-lessons-of-the-ukraine-war/> Chas W. 
Freeman, Jr. 



The Many Lessons of the Ukraine War




September 26, 2023 


By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)    


I want to speak to you tonight about Ukraine – what has happened to it and why, 
how it is likely to emerge from the ordeal to which great power rivalry has 
subjected it; and what we can learn from this.  I do so with some trepidation 
and a warning to this audience.  My talk, like the conflict in Ukraine, is a 
long and complicated one.  It contradicts propaganda that has been very 
convincing.  My talk will offend anyone committed to the official narrative.  
The way the American media have dealt with the Ukraine war brings to mind a 
comment by Mark Twain: “The researches of many commentators have already thrown 
much darkness on this subject, and it is probable that, if they continue, we 
shall soon know nothing at all about it.”

It is said that, in war, truth is the first casualty.  War is typically 
accompanied by a fog of official lies.  No such fog has ever been as thick as 
in the Ukraine war.  While many hundreds of thousands of people have fought and 
died in Ukraine, the propaganda machines in Brussels, Kyiv, London, Moscow, and 
Washington have worked overtime to ensure that we take passionate sides, 
believe what we want to believe, and condemn anyone who questions the narrative 
we have internalized.  No one not on the front lines has any real idea of what 
has been happening in this war.  What we know is only what our governments and 
other supporters of the war want us to know.  And they have developed the bad 
habit of inhaling their own propaganda, which guarantees delusional policies.


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