It was repeatedly stated since the 1990’s that NATO encroachment to the east would lead to a scenario like this

By NATO and US politicians themselves. George Kennan, the former ambassador to the USSR is the primary example of one of these people. He described it as reckless and dangerous

I'm not gon lie, I fell down a rabbit hole on YT finding out who Chris Chan was......for a microsecond I was ready to embrace the bomb

F*** em both especially Jimmy.

Carter and D*** Cheney are the Godfathers of Islamists.

Putin offered his own historical context but his long speech which US media abridged clearly spelled out the western agitation. He didn't invade Belarus which he also considers part of Russia

That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have happened regardless.

Belarus is a vassal state. Come on man

F*** his context ukraine can aspire to what it wants

Dont want smoke from nato then don't attack nato then (yes nato has been aggressor before)

PLS i-

We got a badass out here rounding up and cornering the commies!

Dont want smoke from nato then don't attack nato then (yes nato has been aggressor before)

He didn't invade Belarus cause they're his useful idiots

Watch what happens if that fat prick Lukashenko gets toppled

wtf did franklin delano roosevelt do to you

We created the conditions in the first place by making sure Yeltsin stayed in power and followed Clinton Adm. policy

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-us-has-a-long-history-of-election-meddling/565538

I think it's clear who doesn't want smoke from who. NATO is holding its d*** in it's hands. US went from tough talk to sanctions.

This is from his speech on Feb 21, 2022:

"We are seeing how persistently the Kiev regime is being pumped with arms. Since 2014, the United States alone has spent billions of dollars for this purpose, including supplies of arms and equipment and the training of specialists.

In the last few months, there has been a constant flow of Western weapons to Ukraine, ostentatiously, with the entire world watching. Foreign advisors supervise the activities of Ukraine’s armed forces and special services and we are well aware of this.

Over the past few years, military contingents of NATO countries have been almost constantly present on Ukrainian territory under the pretext of exercises.

The Ukrainian troop control system has already been integrated into NATO. This means that NATO headquarters can issue direct commands to the Ukrainian armed forces, even to their separate units and squads.

The United States and NATO have started an impudent development of Ukrainian territory as a theatre of potential military operations.

Their regular joint exercises are obviously anti-Russian. Last year alone, over 23,000 troops and more than a thousand units of hardware were involved.

A law has already been adopted that allows foreign troops to come to Ukraine in 2022 to take part in multinational drills. Understandably, these are primarily NATO troops. This year, at least ten of these joint drills are planned.

Obviously, such undertakings are designed to be a cover-up for a rapid buildup of the NATO military group on Ukrainian territory.

This is all the more so since the network of airfields upgraded with US help in Borispol, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chuguyev, and Odesa, to name a few, is capable of transferring army units in a very short time.

Ukraine’s airspace is open to flights by US strategic and reconnaissance aircraft and drones that conduct surveillance over Russian territory.

I will add that the US-built Maritime Operations Centre in Ochakov makes it possible to support activity by NATO warships, including the use of precision weapons, against the Russian Black Sea Fleet and our infrastructure on the entire Black Sea Coast.

At one time, the United States intended to build similar facilities in Crimea as well but the Crimeans and residents of Sevastopol wrecked these plans. We will always remember this.

Now attempts are being made to condemn these landmarks of history to oblivion, along with the names of state and military figures of the Russian Empire without whose efforts modern Ukraine would not have many big cities or even access to the Black Sea.

A monument to Alexander Suvorov was recently demolished in Poltava. What is there to say? Are you renouncing your own past? The so-called colonial heritage of the Russian Empire? Well, in this case, be consistent.

Next, notably, Article 17 of the Constitution of Ukraine stipulates that deploying foreign military bases on its territory is illegal. However, as it turns out, this is just conventionality that can be easily circumvented.

Ukraine is home to NATO training missions which are, in fact, foreign military bases. They just called a base a mission and were done with it.

Kiev has long proclaimed a strategic course on joining NATO. Indeed, each country is entitled to pick its own security system and enter into military alliances. There would be no problem with that, if it were not for one “but.”

International documents expressly stipulate the principle of equal and indivisible security, which includes obligations not to strengthen one’s own security at the expense of the security of other states. This is stated in the 1999 OSCE Charter for European Security adopted in Istanbul and the 2010 OSCE Astana Declaration.

In other words, the choice of pathways towards ensuring security should not pose a threat to other states, whereas Ukraine joining NATO is a direct threat to Russia’s security.

Let me remind you that at the Bucharest NATO summit held in April 2008, the United States pushed through a decision to the effect that Ukraine and, by the way, Georgia would become NATO members.

Many European allies of the United States were well aware of the risks associated with this prospect already then but were forced to put up with the will of their senior partner. The Americans simply used them to carry out a clearly anti-Russian policy.

A number of NATO member states are still very skeptical about Ukraine joining NATO. We are getting signals from some European capitals telling us not to worry since it will not happen literally overnight.

In fact, our US partners are saying the same thing as well. “All right, then” we respond, “if it does not happen tomorrow, then it will happen the day after tomorrow. What does it change from the historical perspective? Nothing at all.”

Furthermore, we are aware of the US leadership’s position and words that active hostilities in eastern Ukraine do not rule out the possibility of that country joining NATO if it meets NATO criteria and overcomes corruption.

All the while, they are trying to convince us over and over again that NATO is a peace-loving and purely defensive alliance that poses no threat to Russia. Again, they want us to take their word for it. But we are well aware of the real value of these words.

In 1990, when German unification was discussed, the United States promised the Soviet leadership that NATO jurisdiction or military presence will not expand one inch to the east and that the unification of Germany will not lead to the spread of NATO’s military organization to the east. This is a quote.

They issued lots of verbal assurances, all of which turned out to be empty phrases. Later, they began to assure us that the accession to NATO by Central and Eastern European countries would only improve relations with Moscow, relieve these countries of the fears steeped in their bitter historical legacy, and even create a belt of countries that are friendly towards Russia.

However, the exact opposite happened. The governments of certain Eastern European countries, speculating on Russophobia, brought their complexes and stereotypes about the Russian threat to the Alliance and insisted on building up the collective defense potentials and deploying them primarily against Russia.

Worse still, that happened in the 1990s and the early 2000s when, thanks to our openness and goodwill, relations between Russia and the West had reached a high level."

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riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/president-putins-full-text-of-february-21-2022-speech-to-the-nation

Guys, It's the same 10 people in here who is actually interested. What did y'all eat today? Any plans for the weekend?

Youre basically now nakedly apologising for his imperialism

He wants to prevent a sovereign state doing what it wants

Nothing and no

I’m working on my grill skills. Hosting a party this sunday

If i need to choose i take NATO side not even thinking twice. This is the war where being neutral only helps Putin and that cannot happen

What political illiteracy does to a MF