History is showing that it was the US following the years after the dissolution of the USSR, who broke agreements and is causing the war in Ukraine.
The Long Train of Abuses that Culminated in the Ukraine War
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-long-train-of-abuses-that-culminated-in-the-ukraine-war/But within that sphere, Horton is a fox, weaving an encyclopedic knowledge of various conflicts into an elaborate and convincing tapestry that indicts elites, intellectuals, the military-industrial complex, and—with characteristic vitriol—neoconservatives in pushing the US toward unnecessary wars.
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, fits this mold to a tee—not because Horton contorts facts to a preconceived narrative. Rather, because it is often the same people pushing conflict after conflict who, unsurprisingly, resort to the same, well-worn playbook. Horton's tome is riveting, from beginning to end. Here, I will focus on the early post-Cold War years, since this part of the story is oft-neglected in contemporary debates about the origins of the Ukraine war.
With the closing of the Cold War, and the USSR dissolving, the U.S. faced a crisis of success: what use is the NATO military alliance without the Soviet enemy to align against? More broadly, what grand strategy should the US adopt now that containing communism was obsolete? For neoconservatives, whose answer post-Cold War was benevolent global hegemony, the solution was to adapt NATO. NATO must gradually absorb more European nations, while leaving Russia out in the cold—contained and encircled, in an even worse position than during the Cold War. NATO must expand its mission to keep European peace and expand Western democracy, or wither on the vine.
From George H.W. Bush to today, the record meticulously compiled by Horton demonstrates that U.S. and other Western leaders communicated to Russia leaders and officials that NATO would not expand east—and could even allow for Russian membership in NATO. Various efforts like the Partnership for Peace and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe were promoted to foster this impression that Russia would be included in European affairs, alliances, and institutions, rather than these structures aligning against them. All the while, these same US and Western leaders took virtually the opposite positions internally, with the result that the US willfully misled the Russians. The exact internal and external postures waxed and waned over the years, but this ultimate pattern held firm. This was even though, all along, Russian officials warned about how they and the Russian people would react to NATO advancing east. What we see is, in terms with which Americans are well-familiar, "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object."...
The US, and particularly the Biden Administration, is pushing Russia into what might be WW3. If Putin somehow can hold off on the retaliation long enough for Trump to get in, things might change enough to save us all.
Putin: West Pushing Russia BEYOND 'Red Line'
https://www.infowars.com/posts/putin-west-pushing-russia-beyond-red-line"The tactic is very simple: they push us to 'a red line', from which we can not retreat, we start to respond and then they immediately scare their population – in the old days it was with the Soviet threat and now it's with the Russian threat," Putin said Monday, according to the Huffington Post.
The Russian President also discussed plans by the U.S. to deploy more advanced missile systems near Russian borders, also stating that some of this deployment is already underway.
"The U.S. activity to create and prepare for the deployment of ground-based high-accuracy strike weapons with a range of up to 5,500 kilometers in forward zones is worrisome," Putin said Monday according to TASS (the Russian News Agency).
"The essence of what the U.S. is trying to do with regard to Russia is to push it to its red line and then scare the American people with claims of a Russian threat," TASS (the Russian News Agency) said Monday.
In a hubris-filled article by The Atlantic Council, Russia's red lines were mocked in flagrant disregard to the risk of world-ending nuclear conflict.
"One last positive point here: Politics is rich with irony, and the U.S. debate on Russian aggression in Ukraine is no exception. The reason for Biden's timidity was that Putin got into his head with his nuclear threats, even as Ukraine and the West moved past numerous Kremlin 'red lines' with no sight of a mushroom cloud on the horizon," The Atlantic Council said November 18.
Regardless of Western outlets and think tanks flirting with ending the world in a game of 'poke the bear', Russia claims it may be forced to respond.
The West has already stepped over previous Russian red lines without yet being nuked, such as invading Russia with Ukraine and allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range missiles.
"The West's support for Ukraine is pushing Russia to the point where it cannot help but retaliate," RT said Monday, summarizing Putin's statements.
On November 19 Ukraine began launching U.S.-made long-range missiles deep into Russia under the approval and guidance of the lame-duck Joe Biden administration, a move that Russia now allows a nuclear retaliation to. These events followed a Russian warning to the West against such actions.
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