леле, кога успяха руснаците да купят и the economist?! за авторът няма и да
питам -- ясно е, че е руска подлога.
John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the
Ukrainian crisis
The political scientist believes the reckless expansion of NATO provoked
Russia
The trouble over Ukraine actually started at NATO’s Bucharest summit in
April 2008, when George W. Bush’s administration pushed the alliance to announce that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members”. Russian leaders responded immediately with outrage, characterising this decision as an existential threat to Russia and vowing to thwart it. According to a
respected Russian journalist, Mr Putin “flew into a rage” and warned that “if Ukraine joins NATO, it will do so without Crimea and the eastern
regions. It will simply fall apart.” _America ignored Moscow’s red line, however, and pushed forward to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. That strategy included two other elements: bringing Ukraine closer
to the eu and making it a pro-American democracy_.
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The next major confrontation came in December 2021 and led directly to the current war. The main cause was that Ukraine was becoming a de facto
member of NATO. The process started in December 2017, when the Trump administration decided to sell Kyiv “defensive weapons”. What counts as “defensive” is hardly clear-cut, however, and these weapons certainly looked offensive to Moscow and its allies in the Donbas region. Other NATO countries got in on the act, shipping weapons to Ukraine, training its
armed forces and allowing it to participate in joint air and naval
exercises. In July 2021, Ukraine and America co-hosted a major naval
exercise in the Black Sea region involving navies from 32 countries.
Operation Sea Breeze almost provoked Russia to fire at a British naval destroyer that deliberately entered what Russia considers its territorial waters.
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https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis
останалото може да прочетете сами, тези които се интересуват.
онзи най-вероятно ще го пропусне като руска пропаганда 8-).
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