When Russian forces expanded their military presence in Ukraine in February 2022, U.S. officials and most of the Western news media portrayed the development as a brazen act of aggression by a dictatorship against a peaceful democracy. The reality was much more complex. Ukraine had allowed itself to become NATO’s pawn in Russia’s security zone. Such a move was bound to create severe tensions, not only between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and NATO. In February 2022, regional tensions reached the point of being a full-fledged proxy war between the West and Russia. Moreover, the United States and its NATO allies endeavored to portray the fighting in Ukraine as exceptionally evil.

Nicolai Petro, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Listen to Former German General Harald Kujat at a public lecture in Germany how he destroys the false pro-war narrative of the neocons. This talk was held in German and is dubbed into English thanks to the brilliant work of Andreas Voss who makes these translations possible.

NATO is risking a wider war

On February 13 the U.S. Senate voted to approve Biden’s $95 billion, including $60 billion for Ukraine. In addition to Democrats, 22 out of 49 Senate Republicans, including their leader, Mitch McConnell, voted for this bill. According to the “well-meaning” Joe and Senate Speaker Chuck Schumer’s plan, the war, the killing of Ukrainians, and the destruction of their country must go on, never mind the threat of its escalation and Putin’s offer to start negotiations.

So what does ex-President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his previous presidential campaign he rubbished it publicly, saying it was “obsolete”. Yet when a little later he met the UK’s prime minister, Therese May, it was all hunkydory. He told her he supported NATO 100%. Yet on Saturday he made a scathing speech saying he “encouraged” Russia that “they could do whatever the hell they want” against those NATO countries which had not paid up their dues.

BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (Reuters) – NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance’s eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a “near-peer” adversary.

A major armed conflict between NATO and Russia is imminent if a secret document from the German Armed Forces is to be believed, with Russia invading NATO’s Baltic states as early as July.

Ukraine war turning in Moscow’s favor as Western equipment and manpower in dangerously short supply

‘We have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times,’ NATO chief says in ARD interview.