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Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's not hard to understand Russia's thinking. The West promised the former USSR that NATO wouldn't expand "one inch east" after German reunification

It lied. NATO has added 14 new members since then, ALL east of Germany, threatening Russia on its borders
multipolarista.com/2022/02/20/us-…
NATO continued to break its promise, again and again, militarily encircling Russia, adding 14 new member states near or even on its borders, constantly sending weapons and troops to threaten Moscow.

That relentless Western aggression now has consequences.
multipolarista.com/2022/01/14/us-… Image
NATO colony Estonia (formerly part of the Soviet Union) has Western troops just 100 kilometers from Russia's border, constantly threatening it.

Imagine if Moscow controlled the Mexican government and has Russian troops 100 kilometers from the US border
Don't forget that, back in December, Russia requested a series of security guarantees, such as the promise NATO would not keep expanding east onto its borders.

The US and NATO rejected Moscow's request, completely ignoring its serious security concerns
abcnews.go.com/International/…

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Feb 24
Venezuela stands firmly with Russia over Ukraine. President Maduro, who has criticized NATO's expansion to Russia's doorstep, says:

"From Venezuela we condemn the perverse plans to militarily and strategically surround Russia. All support to President Putin and his people"
Venezuela's right-wing, US government-sponsored puppets, like conservative coup-supporter María Corina Machado, are condemning Russia and staunchly supporting Ukraine/NATO

She also denounced Cuba, Iran, and China, just because it's her favorite pastime
Nicaragua's Sandinista government is joining Venezuela in supporting Russia against US/NATO imperialism.

A high-level Russian political delegation just arrived in Managua today, in fact, to hold discussions with Nicaraguan officials
el19digital.com/articulos/ver/…
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Feb 20
NATO is the Nazi Arming and Training Organization.

In Operation Gladio, NATO recruited former Nazis to fight communists.

Nazi generals like Hans Speidel and Adolf Heusinger slaughtered civilians in the Holocaust, then became leaders of NATO (and capitalist West Germany's army)
NATO produced a f(l)ashy propaganda film honoring the Forest Brothers, Baltic fascists who voluntarily collaborated with Nazi Germany

The Nazi Arming and Training Org (NATO) portrayed these Nazi war criminals as anti-communist heroes for fighting the USSR
thegrayzone.com/2017/07/20/nat…
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Feb 20
US and European leaders are preparing “painful” sanctions on Russia, which could include sabotaging Germany’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline & hitting Russian gas giant Gazprom

They're fueling the Ukraine crisis to justify the economic attack

via @Multipolarista
multipolarista.com/2022/02/20/wes…
The US has been desperate to stop Germany's Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia

Hawkish FM Baerbock, of the pro-war Greens, let the cat out of the bag:

“All options are on the table, including Nord Stream 2”

"We are prepared to pay a high economic price"
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen declared that "Everything is on the table" for sanctions, including Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom, the largest company in the country
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Feb 16
Supported by rich right-wing elites, so-called “trucker” protests (led by non-truckers and opposed by truckers' unions) have paralyzed the capitals of Brazil and Canada in less than six months.

@BrianMteleSUR and I showed how the cynical operation works:
multipolarista.com/2022/02/14/can…
The son of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo -- a fascist extremist who called for bringing back tactics from the dictatorship, including suspending civil liberties to crush the left -- is openly supporting the rightwing convoy in Canada
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Feb 6
The trucker convoy in Canada is so obviously a rightwing operation astroturfed by conservative billionaires. It's absurd seeing some "leftists" pretend otherwise

This is Texas' far-right attorney general, a corrupt Tea Party pet project who tried to help Trump steal the election
It's clear as day that the Canada trucker convoy is astroturfed by rightwing oligarchs. Trump is promoting it, and single rich donors were giving them $215,000, which is how it got $10 million in 2 weeks

It's similar to a billionaire-funded rally Bolsonaro recently did in Brazil Image
In September, Brazil's far-right leader Bolsonaro and ultra-rich allies organized an astroturfed rally, which they marketed as "grassroots"

Corporate oligarchs paid to send many buses to the rally. Trump aide Jason Miller was in Brazil helping organize it
brasilwire.com/september-7th-…
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Jan 29
Ukraine has had a US puppet government ever since a Western-backed 2014 coup

But even this puppet gov't has stressed there's no evidence Russia plans to invade

It's the US & UK pushing for war with Russia (Ukraine's economy is really suffering from this) multipolarista.com/2022/01/26/ukr…
Even the CIA roadies at CNN acknowledge the major tensions between Ukraine's puppet government and its US masters

The US keeps trying to start a war, but Ukraine admits Russia isn't planning to invade

The US wants Ukraine to commit suicide to hurt Russia
edition.cnn.com/2022/01/28/pol…
Ukrainian President Zelensky is a Western puppet, so now that he's contradicting his masters in Washington, don't be surprised if he is suddenly replaced

Zelensky reassured reporters, "There is a feeling abroad that there is war here. That's not the case"
edition.cnn.com/2022/01/28/pol…
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