Europe, Russia and Ukraine: A Critique of NATO Expansion

If you're honest

enough to ask yourself, why would the

countries of Europe today destroy their

own economies in order to fight

to the last Ukrainian against Russia?

What, what are you doing? What's the point here?

And the

answer is Europe knows that its wealth

is ebbing away. It has been for a century.

The European countries are in a mad rush to

become tourist attractions.

They're done.

Why? They have no... The Belgians don't have the Congo.

The French don't have half of

Africa. The British don't have India.

The Japanese don't have Southeast Asia.

They don't have it, and they're not gonna get it back.

But if they could defeat Russia,

they would have at their disposal the largest country by

geogra- the geography on this planet.

Russia's immense,

and they could carve it up into little places.

You know, like they carved up

the Middle East into

Bahrain and

Kuwait and all these tiny little countries

that they can then set

against each other.

It's the last gasp

of a new colonialism that

might save them, and the nasty Mr. Putin

won't allow it. Oh, it's such a grief.

Here's the

problem. For the mass of the Europeans, this

makes no sense at all, and they're

right. It doesn't.

I wanna remind Americans,

'cause this issue is so important,

when Russia

imploded, promises were made to the Russians.

It's admitted by Angela Merkel and others, uh, and I'm not making anything

up, that the NATO alliance would not push

eastward. They did.

Poland joined,

then the Czech Republic, then

Romania and Bulgaria and all of them.

The last one was Ukraine. That was part of Russia before

anyway. At that,

Putin had said,

"You can't do it in Poland." They did it.

He didn't do anything.

"You can't do it in Czechoslovakia."

They did it. He didn't do anything.

"You can't do it in Romania

and Bulgaria." They did it.

He didn't do anything. "You

can't do it in Ukraine."

They did it.

He invaded. New York Times: "Without provocation, Mr.

Putin..." Huh? What? What?

That's America. Denial is its way of

handling complexity.

The Russians

did nothing about the NATO, NATO

moving close to their border

in all those countries,

and yet you portray them as

putting all of Europe at risk.

They're gonna invade all. What?

They're the ones who have been suffering your invasion

since 1990, and they didn't do anything about it,

except when you--

in the case of Ukraine,

'cause that was part of

Russia, and large numbers of

Russians lived there. You got a problem.

It's not that way in the other parts.

So none of that, none of that, none of that.

So the Europeans are

in their last gasp of

colonialism and so are

the Americans, and the rest of the world sees that.

And you know what it

does? It makes China, Russia,

and the BRICS much more cohesive

than they would otherwise

be, much more powerful and

solidified in their

view. They, they see

what the agenda

is, and they won't have anything to

do with it. So when Mr.

Victor Ha- Hanson or anyone like,

"This is a sign of strength," yeah,

sure it is. You keep believing that.