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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Apr 2, 2022 • 42 tweets • 18 min read • Read on X
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A Thread on Ukraine, NATO, US and Russia

with timelines, statements and analysis

(Taking a break from Brainwashing for a day) ImageImageImage
1. Ukraine has historically served as an "invasion superhighway", going East and West.

financialexpress.com/defence/russia… Image
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 Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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. ImageImageImageImage
10. Short Break, BRB. Image
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 Image
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… Image
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… Image
17. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (2) Image
18. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (3) Image
19. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (4) Image
20. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (5) Image
21. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (6) Image
22. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (7) Image
23. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (8) Image
24. Kyiv Post NATO Headlines (9) Image
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. Image
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-… Image
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… ImageImage
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… ImageImage
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… ImageImage
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1. Here is yet another example of twisted biased agenda driven science

(Whether or not you are in favor of vaping)

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Clearly the pathetic excuses for science journalists at the Guardian & other MSM failed to fact check the paper:

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1. A truly stunning example of what is called an "ad hoc hypothesis", i.e. a secondary hypothesis added to a theory specifically to save it from being falsified when evidence for its original version is missing or contradictory.

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The Havana Cat is finally out of the CIA Bag!

The 60 Minutes investigation into Havana Syndrome

youtube.com/watch?v=Ixdsvi…

Transcript

Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up"

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h/t @a_kruschke x.com/BillyBostickso…
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🧵Long live the lab-leak hypothesis!

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🧵Long live the quest for truth!

2. When that day finally comes & Baric raises his right hand, every word in there will be waiting for him


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