NATO knew where the 'Red Line' was - that is why it crossed it
Russia Today article that cites some of the many predictions on record from REAL experts accurately describing the process whereby Russia would be goaded by NATO into invading the Ukraine :-
'In 1998, George Kennan, an American diplomat and historian known as the ‘architect of the Cold War’, said NATO expansion would mean nothing less than “the beginning of a new Cold War,” warning that it would be a “tragic mistake.”
“Of course, this will provoke a bad reaction from Russia. And when that happens, [those who made decisions about NATO expansion] will say that we have always told you the Russians are like that. But it’s just not true,” he said.
In 1997, 50 prominent foreign policy experts, including former senators, military leaders, and diplomats, sent an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton outlining their opposition to NATO expansion. “It is a policy error of historic proportions,” they wrote.
Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, “Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”
“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said.
These are just some of the statements made by major American political figures, but it would be possible to compile an entire book from forecasts made in the 1990s alone. And after the Ukraine crisis began in 2014, and Russia’s subsequent reabsorption of Crimea, opinions about the folly of further NATO expansion were heard more and more often in the West. '
And so on.
What is abundantly clear is that it is not a 'tragic mistake', nor is it a 'policy error'.
The populations of the Western World have quite simply allowed themselves to be taken over by a force of calculated Evil, the most prominent weaponised aspect of which is NATO, with its millions of deliberately targeted civilian victims, and the propaganda aspect of which is the MSM, and primarily television 'news', as the medium taking over, one might rather say possessing, the collective western mind, unable to interpret the repetitively narrow combinations of manipulated Words and Images (focused 'Human Interest' stories and Large Scale Atrocity allegations gratuitously alternated hour after hour, day after day) as anything other than Reality
Television is a hypnotic medium, and that is not meant metaphorically, that is the physiological level on which it operates.
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