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This is similar to what i had argued in another thread. NATO/US/EU played a geopolitical game with Russia where Ukraine is the sacrificial pawn. While Russia i
by rramadass 5y ago
This is similar to what i had argued in another thread.
NATO/US/EU played a geopolitical game with Russia where Ukraine is the sacrificial pawn. While Russia is the naked aggressor, the role of NATO/US/EU is more insidious and needs to be called out. It is the Ukrainian (and Russian) soldiers/people dying and suffering while NATO/US/EU have gotten away scot-free.
Relevant Reading:
1) Opinion piece from Henry Kissinger himself; written after the last conflict in 2014
: https://cnnbc.com/henry-kissinger-on-ukraine https://cnnbc.com/henry-kissinger-on-ukraine
2) Article showing excerpts from US archives : https://www.dawn.com/news/1677138/ukraine-crisis https://www.dawn.com/news/1677138/ukraine-crisis
3) The relevant research by the professor referenced in the above article can be found at https://www.jrishifrinson.com/ https://www.jrishifrinson.com/ Excerpt from one of his papers "George H.W.Bush: Conservative Realist as President" :
Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger observed in an accompanying memorandum, “It is in our interest to see the peaceful end of the Soviet Union as we have known it since 1917—a strong, totalitarian central government able to mobilize the vast human and material resources at its control. . . . The sine qua non for eliminating this threat is substantial devolution of economic and political power [emphasis added].” Even more direct was Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady, who argued in a June 1991 meeting of senior policymakers that “A real reform program would turn [the Soviet Union] into a third-rate [military] power, which is what we want;” judging from their comments at this meeting, Baker, Scowcroft, and others seemed to accept this point of view. Put simply, the spread of freedom, liberty, and U.S. values into the Soviet space was normatively attractive, but it also carried starkly advantageous geopolitical consequences for the United States.