I know, that’s what I’m saying, expanding NATO destabilized the region. And we knew that this would happen: see the quotes in my earlier post. These quotes were from years and years before even the invasion of crimes. They predicted more than a decade before that if we were to expand NATO further east in the direction of a nuclear armed rogue state, then we would be jeopardizing the lives of countless innocent civilians in the region. And these weren’t like some obscure off hand remarks either; this was common knowledge among foreign policy experts at the time.
Is it nice that there is a nuclear armed hyper capitalist stare sitting on the border of Ukraine? No, it sucks. But the way to deal with that is not by flipping of the Russians, slapping a big target on the back of Ukraine, and then running away. And this is exactly what we did by expanding NATO (again, see the Biden and Kennan quotes) and pretending that we were considering letting Ukraine join NATO. We failed them, over and over.
I know, that’s what I’m saying, expanding NATO destabilized the region. And we knew that this would happen: see the quotes in my earlier post. These quotes were from years and years before even the invasion of crimes. They predicted more than a decade before that if we were to expand NATO further east in the direction of a nuclear armed rogue state, then we would be jeopardizing the lives of countless innocent civilians in the region. And these weren’t like some obscure off hand remarks either; this was common knowledge among foreign policy experts at the time.
Is it nice that there is a nuclear armed hyper capitalist stare sitting on the border of Ukraine? No, it sucks. But the way to deal with that is not by flipping of the Russians, slapping a big target on the back of Ukraine, and then running away. And this is exactly what we did by expanding NATO (again, see the Biden and Kennan quotes) and pretending that we were considering letting Ukraine join NATO. We failed them, over and over.