A Thread on Ukraine, NATO, US and Russia
with timelines, statements and analysis
(Taking a break from Brainwashing for a day)
1. Ukraine has historically served as an "invasion superhighway", going East and West.
financialexpress.com/defence/russia…
2. Geography demands that Russia cannot allow Ukraine to be a part of NATO.
It would open up Russian hinterland to any Western invasion.
Strategic depth is vital for Russia
3. “Russia has been invaded in the 17th century by the Swedes, in the 19th century by the French & in the 20th century twice by the Germans"
"In each case, they won the war or survived it by strategic depth” - George Friedman
The Curse of Geography
theatlantic.com/international/…
4. Russia clearly demarcated its red line:
"incorporating Ukraine into the NATO Alliance"
Why NATO became a flashpoint with Russia in Ukraine
cfr.org/backgrounder/w…
5. Why Russia has a problem with the eastward expansion of NATO
"if NATO adopts a policy which envisions expansion into Central & Eastern Europe, it would be universally interpreted in Moscow as directed against Russia,"
US diplomat James Collins 1993
dw.com/en/nato-why-ru…
6. The "Paranoid" Bear
"If Ukraine were to join NATO, it would serve as a direct threat to the security of Russia," Putin said in televised remarks in February, during which he described Ukraine as a "springboard" for a NATO strike against Russia"
dw.com/en/nato-why-ru…
7. Putin warned William J. Burns, now Director of the CIA, before NATO’s 2008 Bucharest Summit:
“No Russian leader could stand idly by in the face of steps toward NATO membership for Ukraine. That would be a hostile act toward Russia"
cfr.org/backgrounder/w…
8. The Result?
NATO promises Ukraine, Georgia entry one day
We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO,” NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in a communique agreed at a summit of the pact’s 26 leaders in Bucharest
reuters.com/article/us-nat…
9. “This is our Victory"
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko called the NATO move historic. “This is our victory,” he told reporters. Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze also hailed “historic breakthrough” for his country.
10. Short Break, BRB.
11. NATO expansion
Even the current CIA Director, William Burns wrote in "The Back Channel" in 2019, that NATO expansion would provoke Russia.
via Tony Norfield @StubbornFacts
12. Some argue that NATO expansion was irrelevant
"Some experts see it as one of the key causes of his decision to attack Ukraine — but others strongly disagree, noting that NATO membership for Ukraine was already basically off the table before the war"
vox.com/22989379/russi…
13. These arguments are listed here:
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Essentially Not About NATO
justsecurity.org/80343/russias-…
While compelling at times, the arguments are contradicted by the timeline of events and statements which I will list in the next section of this thread.
14. Consulting the Kyiv Post (Feb 12 2021)
Vision 2030 for Ukraine-NATO
Those who doubt Ukraine’s future is in NATO should recall that Ukraine made its geopolitical choice clear by setting in the Constitution a strategic goal to achieve NATO membership
archive.ph/ShsBo
15. “NATO and Ukraine: Vision-2030”.
Discussion on topic: UCMC 09.02.2021
16. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (1)
A search of "NATO" in the Kyiv Post over the last year (since Feb 2021) pulls up a series of articles which show both the intent and extent of Ukraine's move into NATO in terms of training, compliance and collaboration
kyivpost.com/page/81/?s=NAT…
17. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (2)
18. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (3)
19. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (4)
20. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (5)
21. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (6)
22. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (7)
23. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (8)
24. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (9)
25. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (10)
That's it, 129 NATO related news stories in chronological order from Feb 2021 to Feb 2022
Judge for yourself if Ukraine was or was not going to join NATO in the very near future.
26. Apart from the move into NATO, Ukraine Banned
1. Russian Language in Schools
2. Russian Films & TV Channels
3. Pro-Russian Political Parties
Persecuted & Tortured Pro-Russian Separatists
Relentlessly Bombed & Murdered Ethnic Russians
"Integrated" neo-nazis into its military
27. Don't believe me? Check "Bellingcat"
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
28. More "Bellingcat" Investigations
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
29. These individuals & their colleagues in the Azov movement are openly hostile to democracy but friendly towards Nazism & fans of far-right terrorists. They are pushing an agenda of hate under a thin pseudo-intellectual, faux-academic veneer.
bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/0…
30. Don't believe Bellingcat? Try Foreign Policy:
"Ukraine’s Azov movement is hostile to Russia, friendly to neo-Nazis & France’s new right. It’s not running in Ukraine’s presidential elections because it plans to win power by playing a long game"
foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/17/the…
31. The war has been going on for while now
Hope fades as Ukraine’s war drags on (2017)
"After 3 years of war, Irina & her husband Arkady have all but lost hope of ever seeing the day the big guns fall silent & Ukraine becomes whole again"
businessinsider.com/how-residents-…
32. Zelensky does as he is told
How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia
thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/naz…
33. Don't believe the Gray Zone? Try the Kyiv Post:
‘I’m not a loser’: Zelensky clashes with veterans over Donbas disengagement
kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
34. Don't believe the bullshit spoon fed you by the BBC and CNN, Do your own Research:
Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub (September 21, 2021)
illiberalism.org/far-right-grou…
PDF (93 Pages of Photographic Evidence)
www-illiberalism-org.b-cdn.net/wp-content/upl…
35. Previous Threads on background to the conflict:
1. Maps and Statistics: Eastern Ukraine
2. UK, US and NATO Military Training
3. CIA and MI6 Training
36. A very American CIA coup d'etat, a puppet government, US, UK weapons & training, neo-nazis integrated into Ukrainian military, plans to "stress & over extend Russia" to provoke regime change
Business as Usual, Uncle Sam & Auntie Nuland?
thread here
37. CIA coup?
Don't take even my word for it, Try Stratfor:
38. More background here via @KanekoaThaGreat
kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-obama-an…
39. Some more in depth research
1. The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine
researchgate.net/publication/33…
2. The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine and Revelations from Trials and Investigations
researchgate.net/publication/35…
40. Finally, Torture & Disappearances by the SBU
Don't believe me? Try USAID
Just a taster, as that will form another thread
Unlawful detentions and torture committed
by Ukrainian side in the armed conflict in Eastern
Ukraine
truth-hounds.org/wp-content/upl…
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