Posted on 12/31/2022 10:24:13 PM PST by Cronos
Russia has put forward a highly contentious list of security guarantees it says it wants the west to agree to in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine, including many elements that have already been ruled out.
...The demands, spelled out by Moscow in full for the first time, were handed over to the US this week. They include a demand that Nato remove any troops or weapons deployed to countries that entered the alliance after 1997, which would include much of eastern Europe, including Poland, the former Soviet countries of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Balkan countries.
Russia has also demanded that Nato rule out further expansion, including the accession of Ukraine into the alliance, and that it does not hold drills without previous agreement from Russia in Ukraine, eastern Europe, in Caucasus countries such as Georgia or in Central Asia.
Those proposals are likely to be viewed extremely negatively by Nato countries, in particular Poland and the Baltic states. They have warned that Russia is attempting to re-establish a sphere of influence in the region and view the document as proof Moscow is seeking to limit their sovereignty.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.theguardian.com ...
Seriously? The votes by each country is public knowledge, so if someone manipulated them, the country could correct it.
You are too sleazy and dishonest to admit it is a proxy war being conducted by FJB's puppet-masters.
How many bajillions of US taxpayer dollars/materiel has FJB sent to them so far?
How long would the war have lasted without those bajillions of US taxpayer dollars/materiel?
No-one is denying its a proxy war. What people are denying are your dishonest and flimsy excuses for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“he didn’t realise that his invasion of Ukraine would not only reinvigorate NATO but make it much, much stronger.”
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Let’s see how strong NATO is after the European economies collapse after losing cheap Russian energy.
Sour grapes from an American loser
The neocons lied to the russians for years. They poked and prodded the bear and ended up with a huge mess that could have been avoided. Of course the US is now throwing in a bunch of borrowed/printed dollars.
You are the fools handmaiden. Nothing you said could be farther from the truth.
Finally, someone had to give FR another history lesson. These new freeper’s are the scourge of the website. It is sickening to watch the daily posts on Ukraine and find that no one supporting Ukraine has any knowledge of what you’ve written. Now they can either go google what you posted and find the truth or they can support Biden’s corruption and spreading homosexual assault on the Western World.
Did you just feel something go over your head?
You aren't even able to recognize the cognitive dissonance in your statement, are you?
I am no neocon and definitely believe that Putin is the aggressor.
No, it was the culmination of Moscow’s failures 1919 to 2014 that brought about the 2014 situation. Blaming the West for Moscow’s failures is absurd. If they had done right for Ukraine then the Ukrainians would want to be strongly allied with Moscow.
I love the smell of Soros’ desperation in the morning.
just like “Europe will freeze to death this winter!” ??
LOL
I’ve noticed collective punishment is big among the supporters of nazi Russia. They are constantly fantasizing about Europeans freezing, Ukrainian lives being destroyed, etc. They cheer from the safety of their comfy armchairs while Putin bombs women and children because his impotent army loses on the battlefield to Ukrainian citizens and soldiers. How very Stalinist of them.
Reality is Putin invaded an independent sovereign neighboring country of 40+ million people, that have a right to be free and not under Putin's boot. That's the basic question, do Ukrainians have the right to be free?
That single-cell brain of yours is serving you well.
2022: The Year Trump Was Vindicated as EU Green Agenda Went Up in Smoke
In December, Breitbart London reported that imports of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from Russia actually increased by 21 per cent to the EU and UK compared to before the February invasion. This meant that the EU and UK paid Moscow nearly 27 billion euros ($28.4/£23.5 billion) for LNG.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/01/the-year-trump-was-vindicated-as-the-eus-green-agenda-went-up-in-smoke/
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