Well, we've been told that we must support the proxy war against Russia because Ukraine is a democracy.

That's what they tell us, that NATO in the Western world must support Ukraine's proxy war because we're fighting for democracy.

We're fighting for freedom.

But long before the war started, long before the CIA backedbacked coup in Ukraine, the Maidon coup,

Ukraine was listed by the United States' own State Department as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

We've covered that extensively here on the show.

In fact, you can go to the U.S. State Department's own website and see it for yourself.

So hardly a country that supported democratic principles. And many Western media publications

talked about Ukraine's corruption openly. But then, when the war broke out, the media changed

there too. And the propaganda by Western media and Western governments went into overdrive,

basically trying to rewrite Ukraine's history.

But today we're lucky to have a former member of the French Ministry of Defense, Benoit Paray.

He was an international observer of Ukraine before the war broke out.

He was there.

And he's written a book called What I

Saw in Ukraine from 2015 to 2022. And we're very lucky to have Benoit joining us now to talk about

his experiences in Ukraine and what he saw while he was there. He was one of the very few people

with access to the very sensitive information

that we never got to see about civilian victims, about human rights violations.

The OSCE decided not to make that information public.

And Benoit joins us now.

Great to see you.

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