“#NATO Chief Openly Admits #Russia Invaded #Ukraine Because of NATO #Expansion”

by Caitlin Johnstone in @substack

“During a speech at the #EU #Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens #Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that #Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.”

“Stoltenberg’s remarks would probably have been classified as Russian propaganda by plutocrat-funded ‘disinformation experts’ and imperial ‘fact checkers’ if it had been said online by someone like you or me, but because it came from the head of NATO as part of a screed against the Russian president it’s been allowed to pass through without objection.”

#US #Imperialism #PermanentWarComplex #Propaganda #Warmongering #NarrativeControl

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Excellent piece by David Bromwich in @natcounterpunch! Very well worth a read!!!

“Living On A War Planet … And Mansging Not To Notice”

… which (among many others) highlights this inconvenient truth:

“The #Russian invasion of #Ukraine was an illegal and immoral act, but the adjective that usually follows illegal and immoral is ‘unprovoked.’ In truth, this war was provoked. A contributing cause, impossible to ignore, was the eastward extension of #NATO, always moving closer to the western borders of Russia, in the years from 1991 to 2022. That expansion was gradual but relentless. Consider the look of such a policy to the country – no longer Communist and barely a great power — which, in 2013, American leaders again began to describe as an adversary.”

It ends with this thought:

“Meanwhile, the lesson for the United States should be simple enough: the survival of the planet cannot wait for the world’s last superpower to complete our endless business of war.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/30/living-on-a-war-planetand-managing-not-to-notice/

#USImperium #PermanentWarComplex