Thread by @RealLoriSpencer

In 2008, then U.S. Ambassador to #Russia (and now Chief of CIA) William Burns specifically and accurately predicted exactly what would result from #NATO expansion or skullduggery directed to #Ukraine: 🧵👇🏽

“In #Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force #Russia to decide whether to intervene.”

The memo was addressed to the upper level of the national security leadership, and was followed within a month or two by the #Bush administration’s announcement that the U.S. would go ahead with this insanity regardless. It is a grade A primary document:

wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…

Just wanted to add an extra tweet to say THANK YOU @wikileaks. Without you, we wouldn’t have this important historic cable.

#FreeAssange! ☮️