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Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Wednesday that he provided the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with an opportunity to expand while simultaneously claiming the United States is using its foreign influence to keep NATO "client states in reign." When asked about NATO Secretary-General Jen Stoltenberg's remark that Putin's getting the opposite of what he wanted, Putin criticized the nature of the alliance but acknowledged Russia may have motivated NATO. "Our position has always been...that NATO is a relic of the Cold War and is only being used as an instrument of US foreign policy designed to keep its client states in rein. This is its only mission. We have given them that opportunity, I understand that. They are using these arguments energetically and quite effectively to rally their so-called allies," Putin told reporters at the sixth Caspian Summit. The Russian president also said that NATO was "turning Ukraine into an anti-Russia, a bridgehead for trying to stir up Russia itself," mentioning alleged rebukes of Russian culture and language that helped stir up conflict. Putin Admits He Gave NATO the Opportunity to Expand (msn.com) It's nice he finally half way admits the truth about NATO expansion. That NATO is a relic of the cold war is true. The irony being NATO was almost dead and buried until Russia attacked Ukraine. Putin himself is to blame for it's resurgence, rearmament, and it's renewed focus. That said what the heck does he mean when he claims it's a instrument of US foreign policy designed to keep client states in rein? Besides the fact the US has been drawing away from NATO since Clinton and every president since including Biden (right up to the war). NATO is a voluntary member organization. If you don't like what it's doing or it's direction, you are free to leave at anytime. Every member has veto power over it's decisions, hence why they need and have article 5 to guard against that power in time of war. There are plenty of recent examples of member states going against US interests (Iraq anyone?). So is this really something Putin actually believes as crazy as it sounds. Or is he just speaking to the domestic audience? I'm pretty sure that last sentence was all on Putin's troops murdering, raping and pillaging the Ukrainian countryside. That has a tendency to turn people against you. -
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The Minsk agreement was supposed to federalise Ukraine, so that the ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians could live peacefully in their various states, under a Ukrainian federal government. Ukraine wasn't happy with that, enacting laws to ban the Russian language - the native language of many - and shelling areas of the Donbass it didn't like, killing innocent people, including children. All I'm saying is that any news organisation that's paid for by a government has a vested interest, and will have to toe the line, reporting the views of its paymasters. I've shown you why Bellingcat is one such organisation, as are the BBC, RT and Sputnik. What happened to that mall was dreadful, but as I've said elsewhere I'm left wondering why there isn't more definitive footage - shopping malls are bristling with CCTV cameras, many of which upload footage directly to cloud storage in case the camera is destroyed. -
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I've said from the start that neither side is blameless, so I'm not defending Putin. Hanging on every word that Zelensky says like he's that captain of a beloved football team won't help the situation, and is causing horrendous bloodshed.
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