The current CIA director and former ambassador to Russia, Bill Burns, has long warned that NATO membership for Ukraine viewed as bright redline in Russia. Yet in recent months his earlier warnings appear to have disappeared from the radar as the Biden administration has opened the door for Urkrainian NATO membership. It is as if elements in Washington wanted to start a war with Russia.
That is the argument put forward in a recent article in the Conservative Tree House:
On the question of extending NATO membership to Ukraine, Burns’ warnings about the breadth of Russian opposition are even more emphatic. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” he wrote in a 2008 memo to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
. . .The CIA Director is crystal clear that Russia would be seriously triggered about any prospect of Ukraine entering NATO.
Yet, in December of 2021, the exact same time when U.S. backchannel intelligence was being shared with China about Russian troop movements on the border with Ukraine, Joe Biden was telling Ukraine that membership in NATO was in their hands.
. . .The manufactured Russia-Ukraine crisis now becomes the cover story for why the U.S. economy is collapsing. The pain being felt by middle class, blue-collar workers is now shifted to be an outcome of geopolitical events that are Vladimir Putin’s fault. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Do not underestimate how many people in the U.S. will buy into this nonsense, and keep in mind the Republican wing of the UniParty has a vested interest in allowing the narrative to embed in the psyche of voters. Both wings of the DC vulture will help promote this fraud, just as both wings of the DC uniparty sold out our Main Street economy on behalf of their multinational benefactors.
Have elements within Washington been provoking war in Ukraine?
Does a change in policy about NATO membership explain why there is major war in Ukraine after years of relative quiet during the Trump administration?
Here is Reuters article that confirms Biden’s offer of NATO membership:
“President Biden said very clearly that the decision on Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the decision of the Ukrainian people only, this is a sovereign and independent Ukrainian state,” he said. “And it depends on Ukraine and NATO members.”
You don’t support a nation’s ability to exercise free and independent will? That nations are subject to the whims of their neighbors when it comes to alliances?
I believe that Kennedy was correct in forcing the removal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Cuba in 1962. Nations have the right protect themselves.
Is Cuba now free to station Russian nuclear weapons that target the US?
I see no compelling interest for the US in pushing NATO membership for Ukraine, and I see plenty of compelling reasons for us to avoid war with Russia.
Yes they should have a vote at the same time we should anticipate the likely outcome. There is nothing wrong with NATO saying no the risks aren’t worth it as well. I mean would it have been bad advice from NATO to say “If we do that you likely will be attacked by Russia, are you sure you want that”?
There is a lot of good people in Ukraine Hungary, Romania, Poland. Czech Republic and others who blocked the jihadist immigration in 2015 would take them in a heartbeat.
Thanks for posting this Bill…it validates everything I’ve been saying. And to think Biden was still pushing Ukraine to join NATO as late as Dec 2021.
Gotta have a boogeyman so the defense contractors can get their money’s worth with those lousy senators and congressmen they donate to. They’ve apparently decided to give the Middle East a break for a few years.
I haven’t read a lot about “the great reset”,…watched very little discussion of it when it comes up.
That said, it seems to me that some pretty obvious ways to set it off would be to destabilize a nuclear power, and create situations where the population loses confidence in their banking system (see also, canada).
At a time when the world should be united against the maniacs who unleashed a global pandemic that has killed 5 million people, this all seems extremely incredibly unnecessary and destructive.
From a propaganda standpoint, it also carries many of the hallmark strategies used against trump for the past 6 years.
It’s very real every day my wife is calling different friends all over Ukraine they are terrified to leave their apartments.
I ask why haven’t they left to Poland or Hungary they say locals are saying Russians are shooting cars leaving. So yes real people dying and a poor country will be even poorer left in ruins.
A new member requires the approval of all members. The US can veto any new membership:
The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.
there need to be consensus for all NATO decision, so rejection also requires consensus.
a single country can not end a NATO application they can only slow it down.
