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NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine (www.jeffsachs.org)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah no that's misinformation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

FTA:

"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement."

The background background is that Putin invaded Ukraine (Crimea) in 2014.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You're going to get a lot of hate for posting this, because it's disinformative crap and Putin is a war criminal.

If you want to see a talk that does actually bring this perspective -- more or less, that Putin does have valid reasons for seeing his security threatened by the expansion of NATO -- without the propaganda crap and without somehow trying to say that that justifies Russia invading a sovereign nation to rape and murder its civilian citizens, then watch this talk by John Mearsheimer. Inflammatory title aside, it's excellent.