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For context* he said this👇 right after Russia invaded Ukraine (he'd blamed Ukraine, the EU, & Nato for 'provoking' Russia) and the month after his Stop The War Coalition colleagues set up a group to defend the 'Anti-Fascist Resistance' in the Russian-run 'Republics'. /THREAD/
*I noticed someone in the replies whining about context. Around the same time as he gave those comments in Newport in this👆 clip he was telling a Lyndon LaRouche organisation in Australia this 👇schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2015… ![[Nato's] interests in the Ukraine are not benign interests in support for the people of Ukraine. It's about advancing military technology and a military presence further and further eastwards in order to create this ghastly scenario of some kind of hi-tech war with Russia in the future.](/images/1px.png)
![[Nato's] interests in the Ukraine are not benign interests in support for the people of Ukraine. It's about advancing military technology and a military presence further and further eastwards in order to create this ghastly scenario of some kind of hi-tech war with Russia in the future.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dlwy68NXoAA21Ip.jpg)
One year later at the Channel Four Labour leadership hustings he said if Russia invaded Lithuania we'd be "sucked into it" because we're in Nato. (He's since repeated that the UK shouldn't help defend our friends in the Baltics at least 3 times.)
