Important discussion on the ukraine war with russia outlining the potential root causes
5 min readImportant discussion on the ukraine war with russia outlining the potential root causes
Let me just explain in two minutes the Ukraine war this is not an attack by Putin on Ukraine in the way that we are Told every day this started in 1990 February 9th 1990 James Baker III our secretary of State said to Mel gorbachov NATO will Not move one inch Eastward if you agreed To German Unification basically ending World War II and uh gorbachov said that's very Important yes NATO doesn't move and we Agreed to German Unification the us then cheated on this Already starting in 1994 when Clinton signed off on a Basically a plan to expand NATO all the Way to ukra ukine this is when the So-called neocons took power and uh Clinton was the first agent of this and The expansion of NATO started in 1999 With Poland Hungary and Czech Republic At that point Russia didn't much care There was no border other than with the Kingsburg but other than that there was No direct threat then uh the US uh led The bombing of Serbia in 1999 That was bad by the way uh because that Was a use of NATO to bomb a European Capital Belgrade 78 straight days to Break the country apart the Russians Didn't like that very much but Putin Became president they swallowed it they Complained but uh even Putin started out
Pro European pro-american actually asked Maybe we should join NATO when there was Still the idea of some kind of mutually Respectful Relationship then 911 came then came uh Afghanistan and the Russians said yeah We'll support you we understand to root Out Terror but then came two other Decisive actions in 2002 the United States unilaterally walked out of the Anti-ballistic missile treaty this was Probably the most decisive event never Disc in this context but what it did was Trigger the US putting in missile Systems in Eastern Europe that Russia Views as a dire direct threat to National Security by making possible a Decapitation strike of missiles that are A few minutes away from Moscow and we Put in two agis missile systems we say It's defense Russia says how do we know It's not Tomahawk nuclear tip missiles In your silos you've told us we have Nothing to do with this and so we walked Out of the ABM Treaty unilaterally in 2002 and then in 2003 we invaded Iraq on Completely phony pretenses as I've Explained in 200 uh 4 five we engaged in A soft regime change operation in Ukraine uh the so-called first color Revolution it put in office somebody That I knew and was I was friends with And I'm kind of distantly friends with The president
Yusenko uh because I was an adviser to The Ukrainian government in 1993 94 95 and then the US had its dirty hands In this it should not medal in other Country's elections but in 2009 Yanukovich won the election and he Became president and in 2010 on the Basis of neutrality for Ukraine that calmed things down because The US was pushing NATO but the people Of Ukraine on the opinion polls didn't Even want to be a NATO they knew that The country is divided between ethnic Ukrainian ethnic Russian what do we want With this we want to stay away from your Problems so in February 22nd 2014 the United States participated Actively in the overthrow of Yanukovich a typical us regime change Operation have no doubt about it and the Russians did us a favor they intercepted Really ugly call between Victoria nuland My colleague at Columbia University now Uh and if you know her name and what She's done have sympathy for me um Really Uh between her and uh the US ambassador To Ukraine Jeffrey Pat who's a senior State Department official till today and They talked about regime change they Said who's going to be the next Government ah why don't we pick this one No Klitschko shouldn't go in it should Be yatsenuk ah yes it was yatsenuk and
We'll get we'll get the big guy Biden to Come in and do an attab boy they say you Know Pat him on the back it's great so They made the new government and I Happened to be invited to go there soon After that not knowing any of the Backround and then some of it was in a Very ugly way explained to me after I Arrived how the US had participated in This all of this is to say the us then Said okay now NATO is really going to Enlarge and Putin kept saying stop you Promis no NATO enlargement it's been by The way I forgot to mention in 2004 Estonia laia Lithuania Bulgaria Romania SLO Slovakia Slovenia Seven more countries in the not one in Eastward and then okay it's a long story But the US kept rejecting the basic idea Don't expand NATO to Russia's Border in A context where we're putting in goddamn Missile Systems after breaking a treaty 2019 we Walked out of the intermediate nucle Nulear Force Treaty in 2017 we walked out of the Jcpoa the treaty with Iran this is the Partner this is the trust building in Other words it's completely Reckless US Foreign policy on December 15 2021 Putin Put on the table a draft Russia US Security Agreement you can find it online the Basis of it is is no NATO
Enlargement I called the White House That next week after That begging them take the negotiations Putin's offered something avoid this war Oh Jeff there's not going to be a War announc that NATO's not going to Enlarge oh don't worry NATO's not going To enlarge I said oh you're going to Have a war over something that's not Going to happen Why don't you announce and he said no no Our policy is an open door this is Jake Sullivan our policy is an Open Door Policy open door for NATO Enlargement that is under the category Of by the way you don't have Your right to put your military bases Anywhere you want and expect peace in This world you have to have some Prudence there's no such thing as an Open door that we're going to be there And we're going to put our missile Systems there and that's our right There's no right to that we declared in 1823 Europeans don't come to the Western Hemisphere that's the Monroe Doctrine The whole Western Hemisphere after All okay anyway they turned down the Negotiations then the special military Operation started and five days later Zalinsky says okay okay Neutrality and then the Turks said well Will mediate this and I flew to Anora to Discuss it with the Turkish negotiators
Because I wanted to hear exactly what Was going on so what was going on was They reached an agreement with a few Odds and Ends and then the United States and Britain said no way you guys fight on we Got your back we don't have your front You're all going to die but we got your Back back as we kept pushing them into The front lines that's 600,000 deaths Now of ukrainians since Boris Johnson Flew to keev to tell them to be Brave absolutely ghastly
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