1/4 Dmitrii Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta and Nobel Peace Prize winner: 'We all gathered early in the editorial office. We are in sorrow. Our country on the orders of President Putin has begun a war with Ukraine. And there is no one to stop the war. bit.ly/3pdfBPg
2/4 'Therefore we are experiencing not only sorrow but also shame.'
3/4 'A nuclear button, like a key chain from an expensive car, is twirling in the hands of the supreme commander [Putin]. Is the next stage a nuclear strike? How else can one interpret the words of Vladimir Putin about weapons of retribution?'
4/4 'We are printing this issue of Novaya Gazeta in two languages - Ukrainian and Russian. Because we will never consider Ukraine as the enemy, and the Ukrainian language as the language of the enemy.
And last. Only an antiwar movement of Russians can save life on this planet.'
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1/14 Keating's warning was not 'brilliant' - it parroted ideas that were widely discussed in op-ed pages at the time. It was also proved wrong by history. There is no correlation between NATO's conduct and Putin's assault on Ukraine.
2/14 The last major NATO enlargement approaching Russia's borders was in 2004. Since then, only 4 small Balkan states of negligible military significance have joined the alliance. NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia remains an unlikely and distant prospect.
3/14 As @McFaul has demonstrated, NATO-Russia relations have waxed and waned in accordance with the vicissitudes of Russia's internal politics, not Western conduct.
A deeply flawed attempt by the Quincy Institute's Director of Studies to draw a parallel between the West's intervention against ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Its numerous errors of fact and omissions include the following:
1. The ahistorical claim that NATO's Kosovo intervention was based on 'a new principle conjured up by the United States and its partners, R2P.' In fact R2P was only formulated in its aftermath, and its instigators included Sudan's Francis Deng and Algeria's Mohamed Sahnoun.
2. The suggestion that Bosnian Serbs were unjustly treated as 'pariahs' in Washington, and only later discredited themselves through the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.