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The Route Causes of the Ukraine War

5-Why Analysis

International relations students practiced identifying the root causes of various international conflicts using the "5 Whys" model

 

Rise above the information war to see the real world

 

 

The Root Cause of the Ukraine War

"If one rises above the smokescreen of information warfare and grasps the true causes causes of the mega-conflict by asking "5 Whys" questions, it becomes easy to see that it is not the peoples of the coalition nations who are fighting against Russia in Ukraine, but rather their countries' rulers – who, by frightening their populations with the "Russian threat," are pursuing their own personal political and financial agendas."

~ World Intelligence

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Introduction

 

 

 

   

"Every day, I pray to God for forgiveness for having helped that piece of scum (Volodymyr Zelenskyy) come to power."

~ Yulia Mendel, former Press Secretary of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine (de jure 2019-2024 and de facto afterwards)

 

 

 

   

"A totalitarian regime has been established in Ukraine."
~ Tucker Carlson

 

 

 

   

In a nutshell, what started the war in Ukraine?

Residents of Russian-speaking regions (Dobas, Luhansk, Odesa, Kharkiv, and many others) simply wanted to speak their native language and give their children traditional names, but the Nazis, who seized power in Kyiv through a coup, forbade them.

 

 

 

Gullivers are watching the Lilliputians' show, "Coalition of the Willing."  

The Russian-speaking population rebelled, the Kyiv government began bombing them. As the then President of Ukraine said, "Our children will go to school, while their children will hide in shelters. They will not go to school, they will know nothing. That's how we're going to win."

Then, the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine officially seceded from Nazi-ruled Ukraine, signed military assistance treaties with Russia, and then appealed to Russia to protect them from genocide by Ukrainian Nazis.

 

Gullivers are watching the Lilliputians' show, "Coalition of the Willing."

 

   

The opinion of a representative of the Ukrainian people

"We lived in alliance with Russia for 23 years, and everything was fine. Then we switched to alliance with the West, and all hell broke loose." Look, no one switched sides—neither you nor I were asked about this. Russia simply relied on certain elites, while others wanted to seize power. To achieve this, they had to overthrow and remove those who collaborated with the Kremlin and re-pledging allegiance to the West, in exchange for access to power and a redistribution of assets for those who were pro-Russian.

The greatest fear of the pro-Western elites is that the people will tire of European values, giving them the chance to turn back toward Russia. The return of pro-Russian elites would mean the eradication of the assets of the pro-Western elites, so they absolutely couldn't allow such a turn, and after Poroshenko, everything was heading in that direction. Therefore, they quickly trained and sold the pseudo-peacemaker and advocate for dialogue with Russia, Zelensky, to the people.

I, like 73% of those who voted for this chameleon, was deceived. By 2021, my positions had completely diverged from his, because it was obvious that a turn toward the Sorosites and globalists was underway, and then came the war. War as a way to cement the pro-Western elite and, through hatred of the Russian Federation, create conditions that make a return to a pro-Russian vector impossible.

In other words, war is a mechanism for gaining control over the country and protecting oneself from a revanche by pro-Russian forces that threaten to cut off the trough. Including control over natural resources, which has always been Soros's main goal. In this, they are partners with the post-Maidan elites."

~ Alexey Dubinsky

 

 

 

 

   

"Five whys cut through confusion like a sharp blade – only the essence remains." ~ Japanese-style KoRe proverb

 

 

 

   

Diversifying the "5 Whys" Model: Improving Thinking Skills

The "5 Whys" model was originally developed at Toyota to identify the root causes of production problems. This example demonstrates that this model can also be used to improve thinking skills. Specifically, in this example, the "5 Whys" model uses a sequential series of probing questions that open eyes to the true causes of events, develop critical thinking, and help rise above the smokescreen of information warfare.

 

 

 

World Intelligence (WI): European Union (EU) - challenges, foresight  

"How much financially have Western economies lost from the war in Ukraine in the first four years?" asked students.

"More than $1.5 trillion," answered artificial intelligence (AI)

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Students asked in-depth questions of "Why?", and a well-informed AI answered them.

Here's an example of how students used the "5 Whys" method in a dialogue with an AI to uncover the root causes of the war in Ukraine that began in 2022.

 

 

   

The 5-Why Process

Why, despite such enormous losses, does the West continue to support Ukraine?

Not the entire West, but a coalition of Western politicians, is not supporting Ukraine – they are paying for the services of a mercenary in their war with Russia.

Why are Western politicians fighting Russia?

Because Russia has always defeated the West on the battlefield, and the West has always wanted revenge. In particular, the descendants of members of that fascist coalition, who have now united in a new coalition against Russia, want to take revenge for the USSR's victory over the Western fascist coalition in World War II.

Why have Western politicians decided to fight Russia through Ukraine?

A Nazi dictatorship and corrupt officials are the two main characteristics of Ukraine from 2014 to 2022, which determined Western politicians' choice of Ukraine as their mercenary in the war against Russia.

Why did Nazis come to power in Ukraine?

A Nazi armed minority came to power in Ukraine in 2014 as a result of a coup d'état orchestrated and financed by the Western coalition.

Why did this armed Nazi minority persist in Ukraine after the victory over the fascist coalition in World War II?

In 1956, the Soviet government amnestied nearly 50,000 Western Ukrainian and Baltic fascists – "Banderites" and "Forest Brothers." Their descendants did not actively display their Nazi aspirations until the collapse of the USSR in 1990. After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia became independent countries, whose governments began to permit fascist marches and the infiltration of fascist ideologies and practitioners into their countries' rally structures.

 

 

 

 

   

Insider Revelations

"As we know, and some have stated it outright, NATO and the EU are prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian, and they are serious. But does this enhance the security of Europe or the United Kingdom? Of course not. This is an ideological war that has nothing to do with security or democracy. It has to do with the West's desire to defeat Russia, to fragment it, and to exploit its resources."

~ Jim Jatras, U.S. diplomat

 

 

 

 

   

Can the residents of Donbass really want to be part of Ukraine if the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose last name is Dropaty, declares: "Donbass's only problem is its people"?

 

 

 

   

"They are worse than terrorists, they are fascists."
~ Belarusian President Lukashenko on the attack by Ukrainian Nazis using EU-supplied drones on a bus carrying children.

 

 

 

   

"(Ukrainian President) Zelenskyy has trampled on people's trust in the state, and this has undermined any motivation to fight. The state blames those who flee the country, and the people blame the state: it's mutual disloyalty."
~ Yulia Mendel, former Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine

 

 

 

   

The Memory Faultline:
A 5‑Why Descent into the Poland–Ukraine Symbolic Rift

The core ideas:
Each nation protects its own historical memory. Cooperation becomes fragile when symbols clash.

Read the 5-Why analysis

 

 

 

 

 

Beginner's Mind  

Takeaway Question

Fidel Castro predicted that World War III would be in Europe, that Russia would fight fascism, and that fascism would call itself "democracy." Is the war in Ukraine already the 3rd World War or a continuation of the 2nd World War?

 

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