# NATO Expansion and the Ukraine War: Claims About US and Russian Roles

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2101741372545929685
- Source account: [@TeaTramRussia](https://x.com/TeaTramRussia)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 2026-09-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles) How America forced Russia to invade Ukraine.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=3) When the Soviet Union collapsed in nineteen ninety-one, a promise was made, NATO would not advance even one inch to the east. But the opposite happened.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=11) In nineteen ninety-four, President Bill Clinton officially signed documents authorizing NATO's eastward expansion, all the way to Ukraine and Georgia. In nineteen ninety-nine, the first wave of expansion began.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=22) Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic were added.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=25) Russia was deeply displeased, but these countries were still far from its borders. Then in two thousand and four, a second wave brought in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=35) At this point, Russia was furious. In two thousand and seven, President Putin said, "Stop.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=40) Enough." But in response, in two thousand and eight, the United States pressured Europe into pushing NATO expansion toward Ukraine and Georgia directly on Russia's doorstep. Russia objected, because if Russia had decided to place a military base along the Rio Grande or the Canadian border,

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=56) America wouldn't just have panicked, war would have broken out within ten minutes.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=60) And within a month, a war did begin, one that devastated Georgia.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=64) In two thousand and ten, Viktor Yanukovych was elected on a platform of neutrality. Russia had no territorial ambitions in Ukraine.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=72) None. What Russia was negotiating was simply a twenty-five-year lease for the Sevastopol naval base. That was all.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=78) Not Crimea, not Donbas, nothing more. In two thousand and fourteen, the United States actively worked to remove Yanukovych from power. From December twenty twenty-one through January twenty twenty-two, one of the central questions in negotiations was this:

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=93) Does the United States claim the right to deploy missile systems inside Ukraine? Blinken told Lavrov that the United States reserves the right to place missile systems wherever it chooses, and that is how the war began. What was Putin's actual goal?

[1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=108) To pressure President Zelensky into agreeing to a neutrality deal.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=111) And within seven days of the invasion, that agreement was almost reached, but Ukraine unilaterally stepped back from the nearly finalized deal.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=120) Why? Because the United States told them to.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=123) The plan was to use Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia to block Black Sea access and strip Russia of its international standing. And American senators called it an excellent use of their money because no Americans were dying. A pure proxy war.

[2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/67ps67Kp1ZTo/en/nato-expansion-and-the-ukraine-war-claims-about-us-and-russian-roles?t=138) In this geopolitical chess match, after the door to peace negotiations was shut, nearly one million Ukrainians have since lost their lives or been permanently disabled forever.