NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev HeardU.S. Secretary of State James Bakerâs famous ânot one inch eastwardâ assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
The Ukraine Mess That Nuland MadeAssistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraineâs regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
The Westâs Sabotage of Peace in UkraineIn May of [2022] Ukrainian media reported that then-British prime minister Boris Johnson had flown to Kiev the previous month to pass on the message on behalf of the western empire that âPutin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with,â and that âeven if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they are not.â
The War in Ukraine Was Provokedâand Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovychâs overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.
So many people forget that the Ukrainian Russian conflict never really ended, the idea that it was an unprovoked invasion is absurd, (and no, before someone decides to make a braindead comment, provoked does not mean justified.) There have been many leaked videos pre-invasion of violence towards both sides, and neither side made a proper effort to actually quell it, only surface level bullshit inorder to take the "moral ground:
Westerners usually donât know any of that, because Western governments, NGOs, and corporate media erase all inconvenient context and history. I try to point folks toward developing real media literacyâŠ
@davel@drwankingstein All of which have their biases and really a very limited subsample of viewpoints and history.
NATO will continue expanding as more and more border countries don't want to deal with limp dick Putin. Russia will be broken up to small territories and anything that remains of the federation will be scrapped and sold for salvage to finance rebuilding what has been lost.
Ta-ta!
That is what the US has wanted for the last 25 years, but itâs unlikely to happen. The Global North has very significantly de-industrialized itself, and its attempts at sanctions not only havenât worked, but are having the effect of it isolating itself from the global majority. Russia has aligned with the Global South. Hence BRICS+ and the larger developing multipolar bloc thatâs going its own way, ignoring the USâ ârules-based international orderâ sanctions, developing its own international balance of payments outside of US dollar hegemony, and working to get out from under the boot of the IMFâs & World Bankâs debt traps.
the federation will be scrapped and sold for salvage
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So many people forget that the Ukrainian Russian conflict never really ended, the idea that it was an unprovoked invasion is absurd, (and no, before someone decides to make a braindead comment, provoked does not mean justified.) There have been many leaked videos pre-invasion of violence towards both sides, and neither side made a proper effort to actually quell it, only surface level bullshit inorder to take the "moral ground:
Westerners usually donât know any of that, because Western governments, NGOs, and corporate media erase all inconvenient context and history. I try to point folks toward developing real media literacyâŠ
@davel @drwankingstein All of which have their biases and really a very limited subsample of viewpoints and history.
NATO will continue expanding as more and more border countries don't want to deal with limp dick Putin. Russia will be broken up to small territories and anything that remains of the federation will be scrapped and sold for salvage to finance rebuilding what has been lost.
Ta-ta!
That is what the US has wanted for the last 25 years, but itâs unlikely to happen. The Global North has very significantly de-industrialized itself, and its attempts at sanctions not only havenât worked, but are having the effect of it isolating itself from the global majority. Russia has aligned with the Global South. Hence BRICS+ and the larger developing multipolar bloc thatâs going its own way, ignoring the USâ ârules-based international orderâ sanctions, developing its own international balance of payments outside of US dollar hegemony, and working to get out from under the boot of the IMFâs & World Bankâs debt traps.
The neocolonial plunderers already tried that, and they even got away with under Yeltsin, but then Putin kicked them out, which is why theyâre especially butthurt about him.
@CaptDust @davel When you need to resort to insults like this it's a clear sign you've lost the argument.
Not always, but often đ