🚨THREAD: Russia's invasion of Ukraine was *PROVOKED* by NATO expansion and a U.S.-backed 2014 coup, according to three decades of leading U.S. military and foreign policy experts:
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 26, 2025
•Ambassador George Kennan
•Ambassador Jack Matlock
•Senator Joe Biden
•Senator Bill Bradley… pic.twitter.com/2ERSnOKkF7
Not surprised that guys like Chomsky are criticizing US for everything. I don’t have X so I don’t see all the info posted, but I doubt there is not anything “oh shit!” -stuff that would change my perspective.
Russia didn’t need much provocation. Maybe other Eastern European countries need to ask Russia before they do any independent political decisions, just not to provoke it?
It might be a difference in perspective, but I can’t see acceptable reasons for Russian invading Ukraine. Even less acceptable reasons how they’re treated ukrainian civilians.
And the 17 other people listed?
There are surely a lot of names. Can you summarize if there is any new information?
Other than US might have helped replacing the pro-Russian puppet president Janukovitš, and that Ukraine was aiming for EU and NATO.
NATO expansion was provoked by Russia.
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It’s always very funny when people people don’t know the procedures of joining the NATO. It requires acceptance of country’s parliament, government and all the former NATO member countries.
So if a country wants to join the NATO, it might not even get in. Also the thought of US picking countries to NATO is false, US is the most influential member of NATO, but not that influential that it can force other member countries to obey its will.
That did not exist. We engaged in gunboat diplomacy in the 19th century. We occupied Haiti in 1915.
Maybe I’ll check it later.
I’m trying to keep away from social media.
Yeah. I straightened the lines a bit,forbid me for that. But you’ve had periods of isolationism.
, and the concept is not alien to you.
Everywhere you go people talk about the important stuff nearby that would make them the target of a Russian nuclear strike.
It would be interesting to see what areas Russia really thought were significant and had specifically targeted.
And what info they were working from, and how old that information was.
The US was never isolationist. We have tried to be non interventionist, but we applied that policy unevenly.
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Missile silos, military bases, strategic industrial locations all tend to be on every conceivable nuclear war target list
Insiteful!
Could a former military base, decommissioned in the 90s get you blasted? What about a missle silo that has been empty since the mid 60s? Is that still on the target list?
During WW2 the town of Oak Ridge TN was started for people working on the atomic bomb to live in. Now it’s just a regular town. Is it still a high value target?
Russians like Elvis and country music. They would make Graceland the new White House.
I don’t have enough info about US history to argue against. Might be just semantical/term issue.
This is true.
I’m glad someone else has finally said this. I am the only other person I know who has expressed his opinion.
That the US is, and always has been, full of shit? Like Vance will go to Germany and scold them on free speech but he would never give that speech in Russia. Which kind of disproves his point.
Or in Turkey, which is a military ally.