Critique of NATO and US Foreign Policy

You and Antony Blinken and Victoria Newland and Jake Sullivan and the

rest of the warmongering neocons

at the heart of government here in Washington,

along with the vassal states in NATO,

are the principal provocateurs that I mentioned.

I am not apologising for Mr Putin, you understand,

but just to glance fleetingly back at the

history of the last 30 years or so,

you could have done better.

You could have followed President Gorbachev's lead in 1989.

You could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not

to advance NATO one yard closer to the Russian border than the eastern

extremities of a reunited Germany.

You could have responded to President Putin's overtures in his famous

10 February 2007 speech at the security conference

in Munich and shepherded us all towards a much,

much safer Europe.

Or in 2008, you could have chosen not to expand NATO eastwards.

Or in 2014,

you could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d état in Ukraine.

Or in 2019,

you could have supported the Minsk Accords.

Now we're told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy

time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering.