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Post by Alan Watson 👌 Vladimir Putin did not wake up on 24 February 2022 and decide, “I think I’ll invade eastern Ukraine today,” nor was the US campaign to expand NATO into Ukraine a last-minute maneuver. (US State Department documents show Ukraine’s future…
March 1999: Under Bill Clinton, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. A weakened post-Soviet Russia, led by Boris Yeltsin, controlled by a cabal of Oligarchs, protested but could do nothing to prevent it.
March 2004: Under George W. Bush, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO – the largest ever wave of NATO enlargement.
April 2008: At the NATO Bucharest summit, George W. Bush announced that Ukraine and Georgia are on an “immediate path to NATO.” Bill Burns, ambassador to Russia, sent a memo: Across the board, Burns said, the Russian political class told him, “Ukraine is the reddest of red lines, “Nyet means nyet.”
February 2014: Kiev erupted in violence. Obama State Department official Virginia Nuland boasted that since the 2004 “Orange Revolution,” the US had spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. Creating chaos and confusion, NATO rooftop snipers killed both protestors and police - forcing Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
Donbass Civil War Point of No Return
2 May 2014: Neo-Nazi thugs, bussed to Odessa with their baseball bats, confronted ethnic Russians protesting the coup. When the protestors fled into the city's Trade Unions House, the building was set on fire. Forty-eight people were burned or bludgeoned to death
February 2015: In Belarus, Putin and Poroshenko met with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to negotiate a ceasefire. The leaders agreed to a deal that would have ended fighting in eastern Ukraine – granting autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbass - but successive Ukrainian governments refused to implement the accord.
December 2021: Team Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left a “neutral” Ukraine intact. Since 2008, Russia had tried to convince US administrations that Ukraine was off-limits to NATO membership, but Joe Biden once again brushed Russian concerns aside: “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.”
18 February 2022: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documented that Ukraine had ramped up artillery attacks along the Line of Contact. (Since the 2014 coup in Kiev, NATO-armed Ukraine and Nazi brigands had killed thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbass.)
19 February 2022: Invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said, “Ukraine will get and deploy nuclear missiles.” The next evening, on CBS 60 Minutes, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said, “Ukraine will never honor the Minsk ceasefire…”
24 February 2022: With 90,000 troops, Russia launched its “Special Military Operation” - not a "full scale invasion." Citing the UN principle, “Responsibility to Protect,” Russia intervened in the eight-year Donbass civil war after all prospects for diplomacy had failed.
Putin waited patiently on a Minsk peace or on a mutual security accord with #NATO. Now he admits he was snookered, perhaps also realizing that "he who fights a war only halfway digs his own grave." Because he can no longer trust the West, and Zelensky is intransigent, Russia must pursue the war until the #Ukraine army surrenders.
Since June 2024, Putin has delineated Russian conditions for a broad, sustainable permanent peace: No temporary ceasefires, no European "peacekeepers," no NATO (or Nazis) in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and the historical Russian oblasts Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.
Absent an agreement, #Russiawill continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv. The Russians are stayers, can endure hardship – will fight to the end. From the Kremlin to the Duma to the street, Russia is united in its goal of destroying NATO's potential to harm or hurt the Russian people.
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Source: Alen Watson @DietHeartNews
March 2004: Under George W. Bush, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO – the largest ever wave of NATO enlargement.
April 2008: At the NATO Bucharest summit, George W. Bush announced that Ukraine and Georgia are on an “immediate path to NATO.” Bill Burns, ambassador to Russia, sent a memo: Across the board, Burns said, the Russian political class told him, “Ukraine is the reddest of red lines, “Nyet means nyet.”
February 2014: Kiev erupted in violence. Obama State Department official Virginia Nuland boasted that since the 2004 “Orange Revolution,” the US had spent $5 billion on regime change in Ukraine. Creating chaos and confusion, NATO rooftop snipers killed both protestors and police - forcing Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
Donbass Civil War Point of No Return
2 May 2014: Neo-Nazi thugs, bussed to Odessa with their baseball bats, confronted ethnic Russians protesting the coup. When the protestors fled into the city's Trade Unions House, the building was set on fire. Forty-eight people were burned or bludgeoned to death
February 2015: In Belarus, Putin and Poroshenko met with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to negotiate a ceasefire. The leaders agreed to a deal that would have ended fighting in eastern Ukraine – granting autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbass - but successive Ukrainian governments refused to implement the accord.
December 2021: Team Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left a “neutral” Ukraine intact. Since 2008, Russia had tried to convince US administrations that Ukraine was off-limits to NATO membership, but Joe Biden once again brushed Russian concerns aside: “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.”
18 February 2022: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documented that Ukraine had ramped up artillery attacks along the Line of Contact. (Since the 2014 coup in Kiev, NATO-armed Ukraine and Nazi brigands had killed thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbass.)
19 February 2022: Invited to speak at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said, “Ukraine will get and deploy nuclear missiles.” The next evening, on CBS 60 Minutes, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said, “Ukraine will never honor the Minsk ceasefire…”
24 February 2022: With 90,000 troops, Russia launched its “Special Military Operation” - not a "full scale invasion." Citing the UN principle, “Responsibility to Protect,” Russia intervened in the eight-year Donbass civil war after all prospects for diplomacy had failed.
Putin waited patiently on a Minsk peace or on a mutual security accord with #NATO. Now he admits he was snookered, perhaps also realizing that "he who fights a war only halfway digs his own grave." Because he can no longer trust the West, and Zelensky is intransigent, Russia must pursue the war until the #Ukraine army surrenders.
Since June 2024, Putin has delineated Russian conditions for a broad, sustainable permanent peace: No temporary ceasefires, no European "peacekeepers," no NATO (or Nazis) in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and the historical Russian oblasts Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.
Absent an agreement, #Russiawill continue advancing beyond the four oblasts and toward the historical “Russian cities” of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv. The Russians are stayers, can endure hardship – will fight to the end. From the Kremlin to the Duma to the street, Russia is united in its goal of destroying NATO's potential to harm or hurt the Russian people.
part 2
Source: Alen Watson @DietHeartNews
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