Russia Warns NATO Membership for
Ukraine Would Mean WW III
Eric
Zuesse, December 20, 2021
Just
like when U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s American Government, during
the 1962 Cuban Crisis, warned that Soviet missiles in Cuba would mean World War
3, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s Russian Government warned, on 20
December 2021, that if its adjoining nation of Ukraine becomes a NATO member
(which would present the danger of U.S. missiles only a 7-minute flight-time
away from Moscow) would mean WW3.
Soviet
communism is gone, the Soviet dictatorship is gone, the Soviet response to
NATO, the Warsaw Pact, is gone; but America and its allies have continued the
Cold War against Russia; and, now, finally (after decades of NATO expansion
right up to Russia’s borders), Russia has laid down the gauntlet to them, just
as America had laid down the gauntlet to the Soviet Union and its allies, in
1962, regarding Cuba.
Russia’s
RT News bannered on December 20th, “Russia
promises ‘military response’ to any further NATO expansion”. Of course, any “military
response” would be against NATO — all of it — and probably within less than an
hour, most people on both sides of that nuclear war would be either dead or
doomed soon to die — and even throughout the world there would be billions of
deaths. No military conflict between Russia and America (and its ‘allies’ or
vassal-nations) would be able to remain non-nuclear, because
whichever side would be losing any non-nuclear war would promptly release all
of its nuclear stockpile against the other, and so the nuclear exchanges would
become a part of any U.S.-v.-Russia war.
The
reader-comments at that news-report were informative, especially if a reader
there clicks onto “Best” so as to be reading first the most “like”ed of the
reader-comments (and this means that the most representative of all of the
comments are being posted at the top). Here they are:
COMMENTS — “BEST” (the top-listed
ones)
TheFishhv2
About time. NATO
expansion must stop, because NATO's intentions are not good. This organization
has done a lot of damage in the last 25 years, and it must be reigned in.
Sun
Tzu TheFishhv2
NATO is a defense
organization pal, they never attacked anyone!
1Beak1
Sun Tzu
How true as they were
in Libya, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia - What a wretched Liar.
LaCarreta
Sun Tzu
NATO in its 72 years
of existence never defended a single member state only attacked, bombed,
invaded a number of foreign nations.
On May 7, 1999,
during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Operation Allied Force), five U.S. Joint
Direct Attack Munition guided bombs hit the People's Republic of China embassy
in the Belgrade district of New Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and
outraging the Chinese public.
NWOD
Sun Tzu
LOL, NATO is an
aggressive imperialist enterprise. It has NEVER acted defensively - name a time
it has - and every single war, battle, sabotage, and threat it has engaged in
has been aggressive, unlawful and evil.
TheCruXx
Sun Tzu
And how can you
explain it to the world, that NATO was in several wars, when NO ONE ATTACKED
THEM, OR ANYONE OF THEM. Kinda odd for a defense club...
LeftForward
Sun Tzu
The best defense?
Libertarian4Eva TheFishhv2
When Russia is done
with eastern Europe, think they'd mind coming to our US southern border? It's
not like it is defended at all, anyone can get through, and frankly the Russian
troops would be good business for Texas. Considering our true enemy is in
Washington DC, I think it would be a good breath of fresh air to have the
visitors.
ELPuerco
One should keep in
mind that during the 1990 negotiations between the Soviet Union and the US-led
Western “bloc” over the issue of German reunification (the so-called fall of
the German wall), the Western side promised that NATO would not expand itself
into Eastern Europe. And yet, expand it did – and it has been expanding, and
getting very close to Russia. To this day, Washington maintains a policy of
“encircling” and “containing” Moscow. In fact, declassified documents that
became public in 2017 show us that between 1990 and 1991, security assurances
against any such NATO enlargement were given to Soviet authorities by western
leaders of the highest level. This 1990 promise was broken, which makes Russia
the aggrieved party – and not the other way around, as US narratives would have
it. Basically, the so-called Iron Curtain fell, while its western counterpart
(NATO) has grown larger and stronger – even though the Cold War supposedly
ended. And that brings us to the current crisis.
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Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author of They’re Not
Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.