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West provoked Ukraine war, Nigel Farage says
Yahoo News ^ | 6/21/24 | Becky Morton

Posted on 06/21/2024 11:45:07 AM PDT by JonPreston

Nigel Farage has said the West "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards.

But he added that the expansion of the EU and Nato gave him a "reason" to tell the Russian people "they're coming for us again".

In an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Mr Farage was challenged over his judgement and past statements, including when he named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired in 2014.

"I said I disliked him as a person, but admired him as a political operator because he's managed to take control of running Russia," Mr Farage said

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: bidenswar; farage; neoconsarefools; readthearticle; ukraine; west; worldwariii; ww3; zeepersoutraged
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To: Leaning Right

NATO and the West have been hugely provocative—and duplicitous in dealing with Russia.

And a planned war whereby Russia is forced into being an ally of China is bad news for us.


41 posted on 06/21/2024 12:26:55 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: californian by choice

But Russia didn’t respond until after a full decade of massive threats and provocation, so what are you talking about?


42 posted on 06/21/2024 12:27:46 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: adorno

Putin didn’t need a reason to invade Ukraine. He was going to do it sooner or later.
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Especially with NATO expanding eastward to his doorstep….the US can not be trusted, remember Baker’s promise when the Berlin Wall came down? …
“ NATO will not move one inch Eastward “, Liar.

Time to suffer the consequences.


43 posted on 06/21/2024 12:28:17 PM PDT by delta7
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To: JonPreston
Bush to press for Ukraine and Georgia in NATO

April 1, 2008

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL01417062/

44 posted on 06/21/2024 12:29:01 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

boom!


45 posted on 06/21/2024 12:30:34 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Rockingham

Russia is still winning, filling its pockets with $$$ energy revenues, 70 billion last month…while the collective West is plunging further into bankruptcy.


46 posted on 06/21/2024 12:31:21 PM PDT by delta7
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To: JonPreston

Yep. Its obvious to anybody who looks at the issue.


47 posted on 06/21/2024 12:33:19 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: TonyinLA

Ukraine was never officially invited into NATO. Ukraine kept asking but NATO kept kicking that can down the road with “some day.” Nor was NATO expansion ever used as an excuse for Russia’s invasion of 2014. Putin, on the other hand, thinks that he should be able to do whatever he wants in Ukraine and no one should complain or offer Ukraine help. Sometimes it is the bear that is doing the poking.


48 posted on 06/21/2024 12:34:04 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: JonPreston

Farage again demonstrating the he and Reform UK are nothing more than Russian intelligence operatives.


49 posted on 06/21/2024 12:34:47 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: delta7
Especially with NATO expanding eastward to his doorstep….the US can not be trusted...

The citizens of the United States can't even trust the U.S. government.

50 posted on 06/21/2024 12:40:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JonPreston

Fostering, supporting and financing all the corruption in Ukraine would qualify.


51 posted on 06/21/2024 12:41:22 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: JonPreston; Dalberg-Acton

Yup.


52 posted on 06/21/2024 12:43:19 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: delta7

The citizens of the United States can’t even trust the U.S. government.

In fact they consider half this country as radical enemies of the state. I’m surprised ANY foreign country trusts the U.S. government.


53 posted on 06/21/2024 12:44:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

I knew you were a NeverTrump plant


54 posted on 06/21/2024 12:50:01 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: mass55th

lol


55 posted on 06/21/2024 12:53:06 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: JonPreston

I suspect Putin issued an ultimatum that Ukraine ignored.

I can’t read Russian yet, but I will keep trying to learn to read Russian.


56 posted on 06/21/2024 12:58:53 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Rockingham

“In return for Ukraine giving up the hundreds of nukes and delivery systems they had at the end of the Cold War”

I understand that the “nukes and delivery systems” legally belonged to the Commonwealth of Independent States, the legal successor to the CCCP.

If North Dakota declared independence, the USAF nuclear missiles in the state would remain under Pentagon control.

A Major Anderson[Fort Sumter] type officer would not let the North Dakota National Guard seize the missiles.


57 posted on 06/21/2024 1:05:02 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Rockingham

On the contrary. When Trump broke publicly with the GOPe consensus defending the Iraq War, it helped his campaign a lot.

The Ukraine War and the UK support of it is a similar fiasco and Farage is the first major party candidate to state the obvious.


58 posted on 06/21/2024 1:09:33 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: delta7

Based on whose reporting? Nowadays, money goes in and then goes out of Russia with little transparency. We do know though that Russian state finances are a shambles because of the cost of Putin’s war on Ukraine and the effect of sanctions. And Russia’s domestic economy is about the size of Indonesia’s.


59 posted on 06/21/2024 1:18:46 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: JonPreston

Of course that’s the truth and any honest person won’t deny it. It’s a shame we have so many Leftist here.


60 posted on 06/21/2024 1:35:06 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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