During a speech at the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.
The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement.
He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership.
Stoltenberg made these remarks as part of a general gloat about the fact that Putin invaded Ukraine to prevent NATO expansion and yet the invasion has resulted in Sweden and Finland applying to join the alliance, saying it "Demonstrates that when President Putin invaded a European country to prevent more NATO, he's getting the exact opposite."
Stoltenberg's remarks would probably have been classified as Russian propaganda by plutocrat-funded "Disinformation experts" and imperial "Fact checkers" if it had been said online by someone like you or me, but because it came from the head of NATO as part of a screed against the Russian president it's been allowed to pass through without objection.
It's the damnedest thing how you'll get called a Kremlin agent for saying that this war was provoked by NATO expansionism and that it serves US interests, even when NATO openly says this war was provoked by NATO expansionism and US officials keep openly saying that this war serves US interests.
If I were the NATO Secretary General publicly gloating about how Putin's efforts to stop the expansion of NATO have failed, it would be fine for me to acknowledge that NATO expansion provoked this war after our refusal to prevent a needless conflict.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded
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