Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I’m saying this again because a moderator deleted my comment for “Russian propaganda”. The US promised the USSR in the early 1990s that it would not expand Eastward past Germany. It lied and expanded up to the Russian border.
Here is proof from the former ambassador.
After expanding NATO eastward, the U.S. deployed anti ballistic missile defense systems in Poland and Romania further provoking Russia in its own backyard.
www.rferl.org/a/…/30291193.html
Through funding like USAID and active diplomatic efforts, the U.S. supported the overthrow of the pro Russian Yanukovych government in Ukraine
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Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Except the US did not expand eastward. Sovereign nations decided to protect each other, and Russia disliked that. It really is that simple.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 1 week ago
NATO expansion was a provocation. After the Cold War ended, the original rationale for the alliance—containing the Soviet Union—no longer applied. So expanding Eastern was an aggressive move to exploit a weakened Russia as Kissinger quite honestly explained in the PBS interview.
From Russia’s perspective, this expansion was a threat. It’s faced multiple invasions from the West —Napoleon, the Nazis—it was clear that Russian leaders would view NATO’s movement toward its borders, the deployment of missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, and Western support for the ousting of allied governments as existential threats.
Their reaction is rooted in history and security logic.