Posted on 03/02/2022 4:11:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Russia-Ukraine war will likely end in one of three ways: Russia will annex all of Ukraine and reincorporate it into Russia; Russia will install a puppet regime in Kyiv and exercise effective political control over Ukraine's foreign policy; or Russia will militarily occupy parts of Ukraine and suffer the resistance of an insurgency that may be armed and supported by outside powers. Regardless of which scenario plays out, this is and will be a tragic and unnecessary war — entirely preventable, if only the Europeans and Americans had heeded the warnings of George F. Kennan about the likely unintended consequences of NATO expansion.
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Kennan during his long career as a diplomat and historian (he died in March 2005 at the age of 101), wrote several books and numerous articles about Russia, including historical works on Russian diplomacy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War. He had perhaps the most important qualities of a diplomat, statesman, and historian: he was able to look at events through a Russian/Soviet lens, to see things from a Russian/Soviet perspective.
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Kennan used that insight in the late 1990s to warn his countrymen and Europe against expanding NATO in the wake of the West's victory in the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Clinton administration had made it known that NATO would be inviting Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance. Kennan's first public pronouncement on NATO expansion was made in October 1996 in an event held at Columbia University's Harriman Institute. He decried efforts to expand NATO as a "strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions."
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If the USA told China that Ukraine joining NATO was a done deal, knowing they would tell Putin, then it was probably Biden’s handlers that provoked the war.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
Ukraine was denied entry to NATO in 2008 by Germany and France.
Ukraine is not going to be a member of NATO.
Fake News to justify a Despot’s territorial war of expansion.
NATO expansion toward Russia during their period of weakness after the fall of the USSR acted like a slow-motion Versaille Treaty, spurring Russia to rearm with new generations of weapons, while America and NATO wasted their militaries on useless sandbox wars and ruined them with the woke CRT-globo-homo agenda.
So provocation = justification?
Like buying a new car justifies car-jacking?
Hood Rat morality.
Former Soviet satellite countries don’t need NATO, they could just form their own military pact friendly to NATO and Russia would still be mad.
Khrushchev was in the process of putting his own MRBMs in Cuba after our failed Bay of Pigs invasion. They were not ready to fire, the pads were being built. We nearly went to nuclear war over this. In the end, both sides' missiles were removed from Turkey and Cuba.
For Russia, Ukraine in NATO, with MRBMs a 4 minute flight to Moscow, and tanks a 2 day drive to the Caspian, is a red line just as dire as missiles in Cuba.
This is not a revelation. Russia has been warning the world, and we have been ignoring them.
Turns out, the Russians were serious. Just as JFK was.
Or, Ukrainians kill Russians with western weapons till they leave. Sounds good.
World War One begat World War Two
The Cold War seems to have begat war in Ukraine
Let us pray it does not evolve into World War Three.
Slow motion Versailles, perfectly started.
So Putin is justified in a future invasion of Poland, that was also a "key German invasion route". For the hundredth time, there is NO NATO army in Europe that is a credible invasion force of Russia.
I suggest you read the entire article thoroughly—quite fascinating.
In reality, there was no longer a need for NATO after the USSR fell, and the organization should have disbanded or significantly wound down most of its operations.
The alliance lost it’s purpose and use. Here we are today.
from the wikipedia NATO page itself:
In the 1990s, the organization extended its activities into political and humanitarian situations that had not formerly been NATO concerns
Predicted the Ukraine war THIRTY years ago?
As traders say about buying stocks...
Being early is the same thing as being wrong.
Thanks for the reminder.
The internet is forever.
You equate Ukrainians’ desire for self-determination and defending their country against a foreign invader -to Nazism!
NATO does not invade to expand. Russia does.
“...there was no longer a need for NATO after the USSR fell”
Are you FKN KIDDING ME?
Georgia: Invaded and annexed by Russia 2008.
Crimea: Invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014.
Belarus: Invaded and annexed by Russia in 2020.
Ukraine: Invaded by Russia in 2022.
This is why former Soviet republics want to join NATO.
They are not asking to join Russia. They are being invaded.
Ukraine proves why they need to be in NATO.
In the sense of usage by Bill Clinton, “is” is not the question that is relevant.
Whatever the propaganda media push-out becomes the truth for 24 hours until it is debunked by a fact checker.
You are very naive and silly if you think Russia could look at Ukraine in NATO as anything less than an existential threat, because you believe that NATO represents only rainbows and unicorns.
You are very silly.
But you don't think Russia should feel threatened, because you think NATO only represents lollipops and rainbows.
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