President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense William Perry considered resigning in protest against NATO enlargement. The great US scholar-statesman George Kennan called NATO enlargement a “fateful error,” writing in the New York Times that, “Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.” diplomats and Ukraine’s own leaders knew well that NATO enlargement could lead to war. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. The archives show irrefutably that the U.S. Third, it would push Biden to the negotiating table, undermining the administration’s continued push for NATO expansion. Second, it would expose President Biden’s personal role in the war as a participant in the overthrow of Yanukovych, and before that as a staunch backer of the military-industrial complex and very early advocate of NATO enlargement. more than $100 billion in outlays to date. First, it would expose the fact that the war could have been avoided, or stopped early, sparing Ukraine its current devastation and the U.S. To recognize them would undermine the administration in three ways. The key to peace in Ukraine is through negotiations based on Ukraine’s neutrality and NATO non-enlargement.īiden and his foreign policy team refuse to discuss these roots of the war. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014.
intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds! Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement, and in the most recent G7 statement. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S.
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Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S.
Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. George Orwell wrote in 1984 that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past.
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