Declaration of Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop, Former Apostolic Nuncio to The United States of America, on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
March 6, 2022
This is a very long article post on FreeRepublic
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4063990/posts
A small snippet
The expansion of NATO
First of all, it is necessary to remember the facts, which do not lie and are not susceptible to alteration. And the facts, however irritating they are to recall to those who try to censor them, tell us that since the fall of the Berlin Wall the United States has extended its sphere of political and military influence to almost all the satellite states of the former Soviet Union, even recently, annexing into NATO Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary (1999); Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania (2004); Albania and Croatia (2009); Montenegro (2017); and North Macedonia (2020). The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to expand to Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Practically speaking, the Russian Federation is under military threat – from weapons and missile bases – just a few kilometers from its borders, while it has no military base in similar proximity to the United States.
To be considering the possible expansion of NATO into Ukraine, without thinking that it will arouse Russia’s legitimate protests, is nothing short of puzzling, especially given the fact that in 1991 NATO pledged to the Kremlin not to expand further. Not only that: at the end of 2021, Der Spiegel published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees (here, here and here). Moscow demanded legal guarantees from its Western partners that would prevent NATO from further eastward expansion by adding Ukraine to the alliance and also from establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contained a clause on the non-deployment of offensive weapons by NATO near Russia’s borders and on the withdrawal of NATO forces in Eastern Europe back to their 1997 positions.
As we can see, NATO has failed to keep its commitments to Russia, or has at least forced the situation at a very delicate moment for geopolitical balances. We should ask ourselves why the United States – or rather the American deep state which regained power after the electoral fraud that brought Joe Biden to the White House – wants to create tensions with Russia and involve its European partners in the conflict, with all the consequences we can imagine.
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The Pentagon’s virological laboratories in Ukraine
Still on the subject of American interests in Ukraine, it is worth mentioning the virological laboratories located in Ukraine which are under the control of the Pentagon and where it seems that only US specialists with diplomatic immunity are employed directly under the American Ministry of Defense.
We should also remember the complaint made by Putin regarding the collection of genomic data about the population, which can be used for bacteriological weapons with genetic selection (here, here and here). Information about the activity of laboratories in Ukraine is obviously difficult to confirm, but it is understandable that the Russian Federation considered, not without reason, that these laboratories could constitute an additional bacteriological threat to the safety of the population. The U.S. Embassy has removed all files related to the Biological Threat Reduction Program from its website (here).
More Proof, Bert, dispelling the claim that the Russia invasion was unprovoked
But also there are many sources that point out NATO expansion was the trigger for invasion, coupled with being lied to by the west regarding attempts to stop he hostilities in eastern Ukraine via the Minsk Agreements that were used to buy time to arm ^& train Ukraine's military. As was later revealed by Angela Merkle and verified by Hollande & Poroshenko. There is also evidence that supports that the hostilities in eastern Ukraine were started by the Ukrainian Nazis that were well know to exist in large numbers, long before any of this began unfolding. They hate all Russians.
There is no need for anyone to rely on Russian propaganda to get the truth. But it is impossible for some people to accept the truth.
How many people to this day believe that the holocaust was made up and that it never happened, even though there is more than amble proof that it was a real event.
Way past time for you to start realizing the truth, and that this same administration that tried to assassination Donald John Trump, are the same ones who have been not only lying to the American public, but have been fleecing the American taxpayers destroying the middle class along with our nation. The RINOs are in cahoots with these criminals who you unwittingly (I hope) are aiding & abetting them in the destruction of this nation.
I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people, but this nation is now teetering upon the abyss. Saving this nation is far more important than saving Ukraine. Ukraine is actually being used & abused by holding this evil proxy war in their land, and destroying their future for hegemonic gain for the crooks controlling the levers of power. They are not doing this to make the word a safer place, they are doing it for absolute control.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.