Russia Ukraine war, page-10843

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    I have never argued that any country has the right to invade any other country.
    I am arguing that this war is a response to NATO expansionism.
    That it is the outcome of policies pursued by NATO over 30 years of non stop expansion and wars.
    If you care to go back and read my posts you can find the links to the strategy documents proving so, you can find the evidence that the Donetsk, Luhansk Crimea problems directly resulted from the US funded and sponsored, Right Sector fascist led coup of 2014 which overthrew an elected government.

    From 1996 -

    Problems with Current U.S. Policy

    • NATO expansion needlessly provokes Russia.
    • Expansion promotes divisions in an already divided region.
    Russia simply cannot countenance the absorption of Ukraine into a Western security alliance. Ukraine itself suspects that it will be allowed to slip into the Russian sphere of influence in exchange for Russia’s approval of Visegrad Four membership in NATO.

    Economically, NATO has only been a burden to its member states. It has never promoted democracy (for example, looking the other way at Turkey’s democratic flaws).
    Finally, NATO was conceived as–and continues to be–a military alliance designed to counter military threats.

    https://ips-dc.org/the_costs_and_dangers_of_nato_expansion/

    Video of Joe Biden Warning of Russian Hostility if NATO Expands Resurfaces

    https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-resurfaced-clip-russia-baltic-states-1997-video-1685864

    Many predicted Nato expansion would lead to war. Those warnings were ignored

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia-ukraine
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    Among others, Biden’s CIA director, William J. Burns, has been warning about the provocative effect of NATO expansion on Russia since 1995. That’s when Burns, then a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, reported to Washington that “hostility to early NATO expansion is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.”
    https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2022/03/01/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-warnings-nato-expansion-could-provoke-russia.html

    It is an indisputable fact that it is NATO expansion which has triggered this war.

 
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