War on Peace. Cover-up

On 10 April 2026, Mr. Timur Ismailov and Mr. Peter de Bourgraaf met in Leiden, Ismailov's hometown in the Netherlands. The trailer War on Peace triggered the historic meeting. For two hours, they exchanged a lot of CV issues as well as thoughts on the trailer's central theme: the roots and provocative aspects of the more than decade-old United States–Russian proxy war on Ukraine. At present, this contented theme is thirty-years old. It was brought up by the Bill-Clinton administrations and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). At the time, the newly created Russian Federation, the principal successor state of the imploded Union of Socialist Soviet Republics under the lead of Mikhail Gorbatchev, was led by President Boris Yeltsin. The building of a new security architecture for the house of Europe was agreed on by all parties in East and West. Though the Anglo-American NATO leadership defied this few-year-old agreement by expanding the organisation with the newly independent states from the dissolved Warsaw Pact, democratically and liberally transforming Russia exempted (parallel to the history of the Weimar Republic). The 1990 gentlemen's agreement on the ailing Soviet Union's orderly retreat in exchange for the Atlantic Alliance's stay-where-you-are was broken. Against this backdrop, Mr. Ismailov, a film director born in Leonid Brezhnev's USSR, focusses on the dissident but highly mediating role of the Dutch ambassador in Moscow, Govert Willem baron de Vos van Steenwijk. The baron's position in the highly transforming state would be his final one before the age of retirement.