No NATO for the Greasy Green Goblin 😃
F O Putin.
NATO strong.
Ukraine in 1994 handed over its nukes to Russia, who promised to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders. In 1999 Ukraine handed over to Russia TU-160 and TU-95 bombers and KH55 cruise missiles.
Result? Neutral Ukraine in 2014 had Crimea seized and a separatist war started.
In 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine using those returned cruise missiles and bombers to attack civilians.
If this is about NATO expansion, Mr. Putin, why did you reject Zelensky’s offer of no NATO for Russian withdrawal? Why do you, even now, demand more from Ukraine?
“We emphasized that the security of one nation or a group of nations cannot come at the expense of another’s security”
Nothing about NATO is a threat to Russia unless Russia wants to have an offensive posture towards NATO nations, and then and only then are NATO nations obliged to defend against active offensive measures towards them and or their allies.
NATO expansion:
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-75-anniversary-expansion-timelapse-member-countries-1886634
Zelensky talking about NATO:
“I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or just say no. And the response was very clear, you’re not going to be a NATO member, but publicly, the doors will remain open.”
Imo this is a war the deep state wanted.
https://www.islamtimes.com/en/news/984878/zelensky-reveals-nato-s-true-stance-on-ukraine-accession
How ready you are to throw in with the globalists.
People would like to isolate NATO expansion as the only element to this, but the Reality is that NATO expansion took place even as the entire West was stiff-arming the Russian Federation after the Cold War.
Had the RF been, instead, escorted in to full trade normalization, and equitable participation in international policy affairs West of Moscow, and treated as an up-and-coming peer in the advancement of the peace and prosperity of Western Civilization NATO could’ve expanded right to their borders and they wouldn’t have batted an eyelash.
Look, you have an entire Soviet architecture that overcame the mass of it’s own Deep State (large chunks of which persist to this very day) to throw down 70 years of suffocating communism, and were they praised? Were they welcomed to the West?
Oh, HELL no!
Saith the accursed NeoCons: no former Soviet will EVER NOT be a Soviet; nor will they EVER be treated as anything BUT Soviets.
More, even, than NATO expansion, it is that damnable NeoCon notion, and it’s infernal philosophical children, propelled forward by our own diabolical cabal of Deep State actors, that has fueled every last iota of international friction with the Russian Federation since 1990. And it DAMN near sent them back into the arms of Stalin’s Ghost; the Russian Federation struggled so mightily economically that many felt they’d made a mistake, and wanted to go back to communism. Never a majority, by the grace of God, alone, but enough to make the threat credible.
WE HAD A GOLDEN WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, from about 1989 to MAYBE as late as 1999, to affirmatively establish a constructive West/East peace partnership, actively aid in pulling Russia out of the rubble of the collapsed CCCP, and become fast partners in prosperity; bringing our combined influence in our respective global hemispheres to bear on an entire globe that could’ve well used the leadership of a more unified pair of superpowers.
COULD’VE
DIDN’T
So today we choke down the rotten fruit of our failure, as our own Deep State muppets, yes-men, and hangers-on comfort themselves on the thin gruel of taking cheap shots at Putin.
Has “NATO “ invaded Russia?
Has Russia invaded several sovereign nations?
Project much pitin?😎
Putin was entertained at the NATO top table between 2001 and 2008, as an honored guest, and it was even at one of those meetings where he was being undeservedly schmoozed, that he banged on about NATO expansion as if the Cold War was still on.
He should’ve been given the same hairdryer treatment as Zelensky got in the White House, but instead we had to tolerate another 14 years of “yeah, he’s being a total ass but DON’T POKE THE BEAR”... Leading to zero criticism of his bullshit, leading to his completely paranoid fantasy being given a sliver of credibility.
I swear, people who actually still parrot that line should have their dumbass mouths washed out with soap before being dragged off for a cognitive decline test.
It’s as retarded as saying North Korea has a legitimate beef when North Korea is only a basket case because the Kim regime insists on living in a total disinformation bubble.