Posted on 03/10/2023 9:57:45 AM PST by Kazan
This war need never have happened if Kissinger’s, and many others’, proposal for a neutral, non-NATO Ukraine had been accepted by the US in 2021, as Russia reasonably requested, and if Ukraine, at America’s direction, had ceased its eight year, US-sponsored war on the Donbas Russian speakers and Russian ethnics, and had enforced the Minsk II accords.
But the US Military Industrial Complex wanted a war and got one. The object: To bleed and weaken Russia with a Vietnam-like quagmire.
Russia appears to be surviving US sanctions quite comfortably, as new customers pop up in Asia for its natural gas and other vital resources, its ruble remains strong, 80% of its people apparently support their government, Europe’s, particularly Germany’s, economies are in free fall as the cost of US liquified natural gas exceeds the cost of demonized Russian pipeline gas by huge multiples, and as the BRICs develop new trade routes and payment methods in Asia and across the global south, threatening the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
All of this, and the risk of nuclear war with a Russia that does in fact feel threatened by the US Military Industrial Complex’s thirty year pattern of gratuitously aggressive behavior:
*NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, in the teeth of explicit promises by every 1990 Western leader that such expansion would never occur if Russia accepted German reunification, withdrew its troops from Eastern Europe, and dissolved the Warsaw Pact;
*Invitations in 2008 to Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO, well known at the time to be as totally unacceptable to Russia as the Soviet Union’s attempted similar conversion of Cuba in 1962 was to the United States;
*US deep involvement in the 2014 coup that deposed Ukraine’s democratically elected, pro Russian president; US installation of sophisticated weapons systems in the new NATO countries
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the usual Russian lies
The citizens of The United States did not blow up the Nordstream pipeline.
The Democrats blew up the Nordstream pipeline.
Truth hurts cuck Canuck. You should volunteer because the Ukrainians need someone vicious and strong who says “sorry” after every shot fired.
You don’t belong here.
I’m glad you’re so quick to get the official Biden reaction to this out. You’ve been trafficking in the government/media conglomerate disinfo long enough you can probably freelance your BS without getting the latest FBI talking points. You need a badge, junior G-man, BS second class. Keep up the vigilance.
Garbage article full of lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations.
NATO should have went the way of the Warsaw Pact. One without the other is in an imbalance.
not one criticism of Putin
Putin illegally invades a sovereign country - violating the 1994 Budapest Agreement, which the author again makes no mention of - and yet he gets zero criticism
this author is not objective, he’s obviously a paid Russian propagandist repeating all the bogus Kremlin talking points
“..Garbage article full of lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations.””
such as?
“… this author is not objective, he’s obviously a paid Russian propagandist repeating all the bogus Kremlin talking points”
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Oh, you sound so very, very French.
Submissively surrendering to Russian nuclear blackmail seems very French.
“Such as”: *NATO’s relentless eastward expansion, in the teeth of explicit promises by every 1990 Western leader that such expansion would never occur if Russia accepted German reunification, withdrew its troops from Eastern Europe, and dissolved the Warsaw Pact;
The whole article is recycled manure.
All you and your ilk have are lies, coming straight from Deep State and the Biden regime.
everything
Frankly, it’s pretty much past the time when there’s not much left of Eastern Ukraine to save. It’s turning into a graveyard.
This source is not Russian, goober.
“NATO’s relentless eastward expansion”
Russian barbarians hate it when the nations they used to dominate and enslave take steps to secure themselves against future domination and enslavement by Russia.
NATO has not ‘relentlessly expanded’ but instead plenty of countries have freely joined it and that list will soon enough include Finland and Sweden. Maybe even Switzerland and Austria who are both now integrating their militaries with NATO.
Also, Russia does not get to veto who can and can’t apply to join NATO.
That’s just the same as criminals getting a say on who can and cannot have a burglar alarm.
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