Analysis of NATO's Role in Ukraine Conflict
How America forced Russia to invade Ukraine.
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.
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.
Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic were added.
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.
At this point, Russia was furious.
In two thousand and seven, President Putin said, "Stop.
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,
America wouldn't just have panicked, war would have broken out within ten
minutes.
And within a month, a war did begin, one that devastated Georgia.
In two thousand and ten, Viktor Yanukovych
was elected on a platform of
neutrality. Russia had no territorial ambitions in
Ukraine.
None. What Russia was negotiating was simply a twenty-five-year lease for
the Sevastopol naval base. That was all.
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:
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?
To pressure President Zelensky into agreeing to a neutrality deal.
And within seven days of the invasion, that agreement was almost reached,
but Ukraine unilaterally stepped back from the nearly finalized deal.
Why? Because the United States told them to.
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.
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.
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