Westen hat Russen betrogen
The US and Germany had said to Gorbachev and to Yeltsin, we won’t expand NATO one inch eastward.
Like always with the United States, they lied, they cheated, and they started the expansion.
I know about in detail, which is get NATO all the way to surround Russia, because that was the plan of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dick Cheney and others going right back to the 1990s.
Russia, throughout its history, has always believed in keeping some safety from the west, which has repeatedly invaded Russia.
And after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and Germany had said to Gorbachev and to Yeltsin, we won’t expand NATO one inch eastward. But then, like always with the United States, they lied, they cheated, and they started the expansion. And then the Russians. I was observing this all along. The first expansions, which were in central Europe, didn’t come too close to Russia. And they said, ugh, we don’t like that. You cheated. You told us no, but okay, that’s Hungary. Poland and Czech Republic. That was 1999 under Clinton. But then it just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming. And they said, with rising decibels and rising fervour, stop coming closer. And their ultimate red line has been consistent. It is Ukraine and Georgia. Why? Well, it goes back Piers to the British Empire, to 1853, to 1856, actually to Lord Palmerston. He had an idea, surround Russia in the Black Sea. Render Russia’s fleet in the Black Sea in Sevastopol, which was there in 1853, just like it’s there in 2024, render it essentially inoperable. Control the Dardanelles. This is a long story. And then Russia is a second or third rate power. And President Putin is responding to what has been a british imperial attempt for 175 years and a us attempt since 1991, basically to surround Russia with NATO. And what Putin has been saying is, dont do that. Stop, leave Ukraine as a kind of buffer zone. And Ukraine was perfectly happy with that, and public opinion was perfectly happy with that, and they didnt want to join NATO. And in 2009, they elected Viktor Yanukovych, who promised them neutrality, which was the promise that Ukraine itself had made in declaring its independence, that they would be permanently a neutral country because they’re in between west and east, they’re in between Europe and western Europe or the European Union and Russia. So they wanted just, okay, we’ll be neutral. But then the United States did team up to overthrow Yanukovych in February 2014. And that’s when this war started. That’s when Russia stopped saying, well, we’ll lease a base in Crimea. Rather, we’ll take back Crimea. We don’t want it to fall into NATO hands, just like the Tsar did not want Sevastopol to fall into Palmerston’s hands. So this is basically a long, long story. I think the rest is negotiable. I basically think either the US and Europe dont understand what theyre doing, which is not impossible, or theyre still on what has been a 30 year neocon agenda, which I know about in detail, which is get NATO all the way to surround Russia, because that was the plan of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dick Cheney and others going right back to the 1990s. They still want to do it and they think they can still accomplish this.
