From CommonDreams.Org:
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, violating multiple verbal promises given to Soviet leaders. The CIA and its sister organization, the NED, sponsored color revolutions in multiple former Soviet bloc countries. The CIA “engineered” the 2014 coup in Ukraine, according to former US Ambassador Chas W. Freeman. The US armed the Azov battalion that was killing Russian speakers in the east of Ukraine. (See also this and this.) In 2019, the RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia; RAND predicted the actions would result in a war in which Russia would have the advantage. The New York Times and Washington Post reported on extensive CIA meddling in Ukraine since at least 2014. The New Yorker reported on CIA and National Security Agency efforts to hide what they had done in Ukraine.
Jack Matlock, former US ambassador the the USSR, said in a 2024 interview: “Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?” Matlock said the US backed the 2014 coup, and, “Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea.” Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are “dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis—we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying.” And Matlock wrote: “I have been appalled that a succession of American presidents and European leaders discarded the diplomacy that ended the Cold War, abandoned the agreements that curbed the nuclear arms race, and provoked a new cold war which has now become hot.”
See this for dozens of mainstream news articles about the presence of Nazis in Ukraine and US support for them.
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2 comments:
When I was a paperboy, I soon learned to get promises in writing. The idea that national leaders can rely on verbal promises, especially those allegedly given by previous administrations, is laughable.
The concept of spheres of influence in which powerful countries can control other countries has no basis in international law. Nations are considered sovereign with a right to make their own decisions in their own interests. The Soviet Union considered Cuba, 90 miles from the US coast, to be under its influence and there wasn't a damn thing the US could do about it. And now Putin is squealing about NATO on his doorstep? This is all obvious bullshit to justify Putin's seizing Ukrainian land he has no intention of returning even if the Ukrainian government were to change overnight. This is every bit as illegal as Israel seizing Palestinian land and should be just as rightly condemned.
Cap,
You enthusiasm for nuclear war is bizarre.
Who cares if verbal promises aren't enforceable? The point is that Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons. Why antagonize them?
Who cares if "spheres of influence" have no legal standing? They're a recognition of realities, not legal niceities.
Cuba had its own revolution and the USA was unable to reverse it. When the USSR tried to put nuclear missiles in Cuba the USA threatened war. Now the USA is trying the same thing after fomenting a violent coup in Ukraine.
This is recklessness. This is hubris.
You keep going on about legality. How do you square the circle of the USA enabling Israel's genocide in Palestine with their bullshit narrative of blocking "Russian Imperialism" in Ukraine?
You once chided me for mentioning the nazis in power in Ukraine, stating that I was ignoring supposed nazi tatoos on Wagner Group mercenaries. As if it's permissible for the USA to support nazis if Russia does it.
It is irrefutable that the Russia-Ukraine was would not have happened but for the USA's provocations. The USA demanded that Russia accept what the USA would never accept for itself.
And the fact of Russia's massive nuclear arsenal makes the USA's behaviour all the more insane and evil.
I don't know why you can't see that. This posture of moral consistency that you claim does nothing but reinforce the USA's status-quo.
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