Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War

American Thinker ^ | August 11, 2023 | Edward Lozansky

[NorthernDancer]

This subject is important for someone who was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in America; who has relatives and friends in all three countries; and who for almost three dozen years has been doing his best to make them all friends and even allies….

I'd start with the 1992 New Year's Eve celebration, when about 300 American businessmen, some with their families, descended on the Kremlin, where they were joined by the Russian Who's Who and U.S. ambassador James Collins. A Russian military ensemble performed American music, with soloists singing "God Bless America." U.S. approval among Russians at that time was well over 80%. …

A distinguished American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, George Kennan, was a more realistic thinker when he said a few years earlier that "were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy."

With George H.W. Bush in the White House, hope for a better future remained. But after Bill Clinton won the 1992 election, the Washington foreign policy establishment, sometimes called the "Deep State," was no longer interested in our ideas. The euphoria about winning the Cold War, and the dawning of what they saw as an era of a unipolar world under total American leadership — some called it hegemony — made them believe that Russia and her interests were no longer relevant. In their calculations, from now on, Moscow would have no choice but to obey orders from Washington since it had nowhere else to go.

[tlozo]

The euphoria about winning the Cold War, and the dawning of what they saw as an era of a unipolar world under total American leadership — some called it hegemony — made them believe that Russia and her interests were no longer relevant.

"Russia and her interests" or to be more clear russian hegemony over Eastern European nations.

Russia demands NATO roll back from East Europe and stay out of Ukraine. MOSCOW, Dec 17, 2021 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it wanted a legally binding guarantee that NATO would give up any military activity in Eastern Europe (Poland and from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that were once in the Soviet Union) and Ukraine, part of a wish list of security guarantees it wants to negotiate with the West.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-unveils-security-guarantees-says-western-response-not-encouraging-2021-12-17/

[budj]

100% accurate. After the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO should have become an amateur athletic conference.

[airborne]

"All the media attention in Victoria Nuland's leaked phone call with the U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, discussing the details of the coup two weeks before it actually happened on February 22, 2014, was concentrated on her expletive language towards the E.U. However, almost totally ignored is that a few seconds later, she also mentioned her constant briefings with Sullivan and added, "Biden willing."

[Jan_Sobieski]

Great article from a Ukrainian born, Russian Educated, American Intellectual who is President of American University in Moscow. It explains what those of us who know something have been trying to convince our credulous Freepers to understand.

Those duped by the deep state / operation Mockingbird media assault simply don’t want to believe the truth. Yet, as always, truth is the only thing that can set us free…

[sauropod]

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