Posted on 06/23/2024 2:19:58 AM PDT by RandFan
Volodymyr Zelensky has furiously described Nigel Farage as being infected with the "virus of Putinism", the Mail on Sunday reports. It writes that the Ukrainian president's "extraordinary intervention" comes after the Reform UK leader suggested the West was partially responsible for Russia's full-scale invasion. The Mail also reports that one of Farage's "most prominent supporters has repeatedly called for closer ties with the Kremlin".
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Are you going to attack Trump next?
I assume nothing. Peace treaties have always occurred, and most of the time it is like dealing with the devil.
Right, which is why Finland dropped its treaties with Russia, negating 50 years of neutrality and joined NATO. They realized treaties with Putin/Russia were worthless.
Link to the treaty by NATO promising to not expand eastward to Poland, etc.
It does NOT exist.
Couldn't find a quote of Trump blaming the invasion on NATO expansion.
Trump correctly blamed the invasion on Biden's weakness.
Trump touted his dovish record as president and pointedly noted that Vladimir Putin had launched invasions of his neighbors during the administration’s of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — but not while he was in office.
“He understood me and he understood that I didn’t play games,” Trump said. “He did have an affinity for Ukraine and I said ‘never let it happen.’”
Russians Fear Americans. The sight of just a handful of American soldiers would turn the tide in Ukraine. Once they see the flag on the arm of an American service man they will throw down their rifles and surrender—asking for American Levies. Deep down all Russians hate and fear Putin and Russia and secretly want to become Americans. If we go into the War, the only casualties will be from accidents rather than any combat. If they do launch a rocket attack, most will not work and the Old Nukes will not go off. Russia would fold up in 72 hours giving us another victory.Don’t you know? America is invincible, we never lose wars we only win—haven’t you seen all the movies? (sic).
“The EU, much like Senile Joe’s administration , is destroying once great nations.
Much of the damage is irreversible. Time will tell, waiting for Turkey to join Brics ( not officially announced yet) and leave NATO- it will be a nail in NATO’s coffin- Amen.”
Erdogan is already a Putin shill, just like Orban. Turkey and Hungary should both be expelled from NATO so we can all see just how benevolent Putin really is.
You're not looking very hard:
Washington: Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with the All-In podcast that the possibility of NATO expanding to Russia’s border has always been understood to be off the table and such rhetoric now is provocative.
“They don’t want to have it, it’s always been understood, and that’s even before Putin,” Trump said in the podcast that aired on Thursday. “It’s always been understood that was a no-no… that was very provocative, and now it’s even more provocative.”
Trump said that it’s understandable that Russia would be bothered by NATO troops on its border, adding that NATO’s eastward expansion is a key reason for the conflict and that President Biden’s rhetoric about envisioning Ukraine eventually joining NATO is even more provocative. “Biden was saying all of the wrong things and one of the wrong things he was saying: ‘Ukraine will go into NATO,’…Biden, he was saying the opposite of what in my opinion you had to say…and he’s still saying it,” Trump said.
Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu).
The State of Ukraine with which Russia signed these agreements ceased to exist under its own constitution order after the Maidan Coup in 2014. Even though they tried to keep the ‘appearance’ of order, the country is essentially in constitutional anarchy now.
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