One Western Official Finally Comes Clean About NATO Expansion

TedGalen Carpenter

September 26, 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg likely surprised both factions in the ongoing debate about NATO expansion and its role in triggering the Russia-Ukraine War. He also undermined (perhaps fatally) the official cover story about the reasons for the Ukraine war. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Western officials and their allies in the corporate media have insisted vehemently that the alliance’s addition of Eastern European nations after the Cold War and giving a pledge to Ukraine that it would become a member someday had nothing to do with Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack his neighbor. Indeed, anyone who argued otherwise risked being accused of echoing Russian propaganda and being “Putin’s puppet.”

 

Ukraine asked West to strike Iran and Syria – Guardian

RT
27 Sep, 2023

Kiev was reportedly willing to conduct missile attacks on both nations if its Western backers supplied “the necessary means of destruction”