On Monday's installment of Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec reminded viewers of the complex history behind the Russo-Ukrainian war as President Donald Trump prepared for his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House. This high-profile meeting was seen as an opportunity for both parties to discuss critical details of a potential peace deal regarding the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe.
Posobiec noted that the discussions were not solely about peace but also potentially about tariffs, but broke down the wider geopolitical context. “This is all about Ukraine and likely about tariffs as well," Posobiec said. "We need to understand that President Trump, Secretary Bessent, Secretary Hegseth, and Vice President [JD] Vance, along with the envoys who were sent to Ukraine two weeks ago, have made an incredible impact on this war.”
He continued, noting the significance of the day as the third anniversary of the deadly conflict. “For those of you following, today is the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. So this is the day the tanks rolled across,” Posobiec remarked, referring to the moment when the conflict escalated from a territorial disagreement to war. While the mainstream narrative continues to describe the war as "unprovoked," Posobiec offered a more nuanced take. “The war was started when Russian tanks rolled in. That’s when it crossed from a disagreement to an actual war.”
However, Posobiec stressed that the roots of the conflict stretch further back, to 2014, when hostilities first began in the Donbas region. “This iteration of the war isn’t the start of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine,” he explained. “That began in 2014 when the movement took place in the Donbas to separate and then join and be annexed by the Russian Federation.”
A significant factor in the conflict, Posobiec said, was the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, noting that the mainstream narrative, which paints Yanukovych as a pro-Russian leader who reneged on an EU deal, overlooks crucial details. “You’ll hear the mainstream say that Yanukovych was pro-Russia, he was a pro-Russia president, he reneged on a deal with the EU, they were going to do an economic deal… so he had to be driven out of office," Posobiec said. "But yet, Yanukovych was elected by all of Ukraine. He was Ukrainian. He is Ukrainian.”
Posobiec pointed out that the overthrow of Yanukovych in the 2014 Maidan Revolution was backed by external forces, including the United States: “The fact that he was elected and then driven from office in a color revolution that received backing from the United States, from liberals as well as conservatives, is key,” he explained. He went on to name prominent US politicians such as John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar, and Chris Murphy, who played a role in supporting the movement that led to Yanukovych’s ousting.
“They got his overthrow, he flees, it’s called the Maidan Revolution. That’s what leads to the current situation here,” he said. “This process has not been stabilized.”
Posobiec urged viewers consider the broader context and not to view the world and these conflicts as Marvel movies. “Every story has two sides to it. Every argument has two sides to it. If you’re going to sit there and say the Russians are this, this, this, this and this, and I’m not even arguing that they’re not, but you have to understand the story from where it began.”
“I would love if the world worked like a Marvel movie and you got to say these are the good guys and these are the bad guys and there’s nothing else going on,” he said. “But that’s the exact corporate globalist narrative they want to put on everything. The real world is more complicated than that.”
Watch the full episode below.
