Right, and Russia is NOT a "tyrannical dictatorship and an enemy of the US". Okay
No country in eastern Europe joined the Russian Commonwealth(CIS) vs the EU. There are good financial and historic reasons.
Right, and Russia is NOT a "tyrannical dictatorship and an enemy of the US". Okay
No country in eastern Europe joined the Russian Commonwealth(CIS) vs the EU. There are good financial and historic reasons.
Obsession with NATO expansion: a deeply ideological move inevitable in provoking conflicts
By James Smith
Published: Apr 02, 2022
“NATO and the EU’s attempts to subsequently encroach Russia’s own periphery would prove to be the decisive straws which “broke the camel’s back” and provoked conflict. It is a logical feature of international relations theory, as reiterated by leading scholar John Mearsheimer, that attempting to ensnare and encircle one country with a hostile military alliance is a straight route to conflict. The West makes no apology for it, believing that it is their ideological right and destiny to do so, as the “end of history” logic goes. Western expansion soon provoked in the Euromaidan crisis of 2013 in Ukraine, sparking a tidal wave of anti-Russian nationalism which then opened up a geopolitical struggle over the future of Ukraine. The West in turn failed to acknowledge how the ultra-nationalist assault on Russian identity and language in the country has also been humiliating to Moscow.
The US and its allies in their hubris refused to compromise, setting off a chain reaction of events leading to the present day. Russia’s reactions to this context are branded as aggression and zero-sum moral evil. However, they are in the strategic sense necessary for Moscow to safeguard its own national security and offset military and political domination by an adversarial military alliance.
This whole scenario was ultimately preventable. But Western governments and media continue to gravely mislead the public about its causes.”
Source:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1257438.shtml
And related:
Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
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UnCommon Core: The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Russia is far from perfect, but the EU is no bastion of freedom. A few days ago, European farmers and their supporters protested loudly in front of EU Headquarters in Brussels. Naturally, the American fake media refused to cover the event.
The EU is just as tyrannical as Russia, maybe more. And most Western Europeans hate Americans and look down on us.
