It is not true that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war America has been planning for decades

There is no evidence that the war in Ukraine is a “US proxy war” planned for decades. There is no evidence of a Western coup in Ukraine in 2014. Neo-Nazi groups exist, but they do not control Ukraine. The sanctions are not part of a long-term secret plan, but a reaction to Russian aggression. The claims of “globalist domination” are conspiratorial and unsubstantiated. All of these narratives are part of Russian propaganda aimed at creating the impression that Ukraine has no will of its own and that the West is to blame for the war—which does not match the actual facts, events, and evidence

 

We analyze a post on the social network Facebook which says:

As you can see now, this war in Ukraine is a US proxy war that was planned for decades, cost billions of dollars, and involved subversive coups and an alliance with neo-Nazis. The US empire thought it could easily win the war by using sanctions to destroy the Russian economy and sending an unlimited number of Ukrainian men to die on the battlefield.

The ultimate goal of this proxy war is global domination by the globalists–to defeat Russia, and then deal with China.

However, all the globalist plans have failed miserably and now they are deflecting their military and economic failures by blaming India and China for buying Russian oil. The US/EU can end this war in a day by refusing to send weapons and money to Ukraine.

Yet too many military contractors and politicians profit through money laundering and bribery. And the American empire has too much ego to admit that it has lost to Russia.

So the madness will continue as long as it can.

The public often hears the narrative that the war in Ukraine is an “American proxy war,” that it has been planned for decades, that Ukraine is Nazi, that the West staged a coup in Kyiv in 2014, and that the goal is the destruction of Russia and global domination by the “globalists.”

However, independent analysis and fact-checking show that these claims are mostly propaganda cooked up in the Kremlin’s kitchen that is not supported by evidence.

According to an analysis by RAND Corporation („No, Ukraine Is Not Fighting a Proxy War“, 2024), the term proxy war is often misused. In the classical sense, a proxy war means that a major power directly controls and manages the conflict through another actor, i.e. when two countries fight each other indirectly–by supporting belligerents in a third country.

In the case of Ukraine, this does not apply. The US and NATO support Ukraine with weapons, finance, and training, but they do not control its politics or military strategy. Ukraine is an active and independent entity, not a puppet.

The purpose of this narrative is to present Ukraine as a state that cannot decide for itself. As if it were a state without territorial integrity and sovereignty, as if it is not independent, so it must be in someone’s hands and controlled. But the truth is that Ukraine is defending itself, immediately after the first attack on February 24, 2022, it responded to Russian military aggression and has continued to do so for more than three years.

One of the oldest Russian disinformation narratives is about a proxy war being waged by the West, NATO or the EU… in Ukraine, against Russia. It began with a statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in April 2022.

The fact is that Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 by land, air, and sea, which is the second act of aggression, after annexing the Crimean peninsula in 2014. Since then, NATO, within the framework of a common policy of its member states, but also of individual decisions of each member state, has been trying to help Ukraine, which has a legitimate right to self-defense, in accordance with the UN Charter. Sending complex systems for ground and anti-aircraft action does not mean proxy war, but assistance for Ukraine’s defense policy.

This proxy war narrative has its own prehistory, and that is the narrative of the alleged promise of the West, specifically of the late US President George H. W. Bush, that NATO would not expand to the East after the fall of the Berlin Wall. But this is also untrue and was denied by the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

Some sources (especially Russian state media outlets) claim that the United States staged a coup in Ukraine in 2014 to overthrow the pro-Russian leadership. However, according to Foreign Policy, there is no evidence that the Euromaidan protests were directed by the West. The protests began spontaneously in response to the decision of then-President Viktor Yanukovych to suspend the process of European integration. Western countries provided political support, but there is no evidence of a coordinated operation or a coup financed by them.

Truthmeter.mk has already written on this topic.

Russian rhetoric often claims that Ukraine is a “neo-Nazi state.” However, this is a manipulation. Far-right groups (such as parts of Azov) exist, but they have no real political power in the country. The government of Ukraine is democratically elected, and is not under the control of neo-Nazis.

Ukraine banned the promotion of Nazism in 2015. Interestingly, Russian state media outlets have been describing Ukraine as a “Nazi” state since 2014, but data shows that the number of texts and media reports linking Ukraine to Nazism increased sharply on the day of the invasion, according to the Italian institute ISPI90.

As for the claim in the post that the sanctions were a long-term planned mechanism to destroy Russia, according to PolitiFact, there is no evidence that such a decades-long secret plan existed. The sanctions were a reaction to specific events–the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion in 2022. The economic effects are there (reduced trade, technological stagnation, capital outflow), but research shows great uncertainty and unpredictability in their outcome–this is not a premeditated conspiracy.

The claim that “globalists” want global domination through this war is not supported by any concrete evidence. It is a conspiratorial narrative originating from propaganda sources linked to Russian state disinformation and far-right media outlets in the US and Europe. No international organization or independent researcher has found material evidence of a coordinated “globalist conspiracy.”

From all this we can conclude that there is no evidence that the war in Ukraine is a “US proxy war” planned for decades. There is no evidence of a Western coup in Ukraine in 2014. Neo-Nazi groups exist, but they do not control Ukraine. The sanctions are not part of a long-term secret plan, but a reaction to Russian aggression. The claims of “globalist domination” are conspiratorial and unsubstantiated. All these narratives are part of Russian propaganda aimed at creating the impression that Ukraine has no will of its own and that the West is to blame for the war—which does not match the actual facts, events, and evidence.

Therefore, we assess the post we are analyzing as untrue.

 

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