Perhaps the dumbest sentence ever written in the history of the earth.
These statements are just wrong. Freedom for the captive nations that were part of the Soviet Union was always part of NATO's purpose. Integration of all these countries into NATO (including Russia) was a goal in the 90s, and Yanukovych's rejection of a deal with the EU already approved by Ukraine's parliament that would have started the EU accession process was the reason for the revolt that removed him from power. The framework and movement for integrating Ukraine into the EU and NATO started 25 years ago.
The fact that US office holders and present and former officials milk US aid and foreign assistance programs like a fat teat has nothing specifically to do with Ukraine, as if somehow they aren't going around with their hands out everywhere else as well. From a Ukrainian point of view, making the payoffs was a wise move. But they are hardly the only reason or even the principal reason why the US has been involved in Ukraine, Georgia and most of the rest of the post-Soviet states since the 90s.
“But they are hardly the only reason or even the principal reason why the US has been involved in Ukraine, Georgia and most of the rest of the post-Soviet states since the 90s.”
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It’s about putting US and NATO (same difference) military bases up against the Russian border, akin to prospects we rejected being done against the US in 1962.
Perhaps the dumbest sentence ever written in the history of the earth.
In times and in discussions such as these I always hearken back to FDR’s famous quote that seems to be forgotten in times such as these. And that famous quote was...
“Nothing happens in politics without a reason” - FDR