Finland's Move Into NATO Further Hems In Russia
NATO's decision to accept membership of Finland further hems in Russia, with the ongoing eastward expansion of the American-driven attack force a key reason cited by Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
i would think the NATO Finland move could easily add to Russia's determination to seize large chunks of Ukraine territory to get space from the world's most aggressive military alliance since WW2.
NATO's appalling record of aggression is there for all to see and it sure ain't pretty.
it's worth reflecting on how America speaks with a forked tongue in its international relations and how this directly contributes to the war in Ukraine
here's a key part of the history, as outlined by John Wight in an essay published on medium.com in January entitled "Why The Disbandment of NATO is Long Overdue.
the first paragraph outlines America's key lie; the second summarizes NATO's major operations.
JOHN WIGHT
"Moving things forward, it is by now no secret that US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in a meeting on February 9, 1990, that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward” upon the reunification of Germany. According to declassified documents, Baker’s pledge was made as part of a “cascade of assurances” over Soviet security given by Western leaders at that time and on into 1991, when the Soviet Union came to an end. It is the breaking of those assurances that lies at the heart of the deterioration in relations between East and West that has taken place since, and which informs the current conflict in Ukraine."
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"The decisive role of NATO in achieving the West’s objectives in the former Yugoslavia need not detain us here, especially as I focused on that very topic on this platform just recently. The point is that today — bearing in mind NATO’s role in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, its role in helping turn Afghanistan into a failed state, its critical role in toppling Gadaffi in Libya and turning that country into a failed state, and its stance in threatening Russia’s security in Eastern Europe — it is no longer feasible or possible to harbour any lingering belief that NATO is anything other than a tool of US hard power, deployed not to protect and defend, but instead to destroy and dominate."
