[From “Russia is not an Aggressor, and Ukraine is not a Victim”]

It is widely accepted that the Ukrainian crisis erupted into a military conflict on February 24, 2022[…]Seeds of the hostilities were planted about thirty years earlier by President Clinton and, later, by George W. Bush, both of whom recklessly pushed for NATO’s eastward expansion

Over the years, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin repeatedly warned that Moscow would not tolerate continuing NATO’s “Drang nach Osten”[…]particularly Ukraine’s membership and the subsequent establishment of NATO military bases along the Russian border

On February 25, 2024, The New York Times published an article confirming Moscow’s fears[…]
The newspaper exposed how[…]the CIA has operated a network of twelve bases in Ukraine[…]
Would the United States accept the presence of Russian military bases on its borders?[…]Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada[…]
Diplomacy was not given a chance because NATO needed to restore its image and validate its continued existence following a 30-year history of failure. The pursuit of “nation-building”[…]has accomplished neither[…]
Since a military alliance cannot exist without a rival, NATO's need for a credible enemy was an existential necessity. The Russian incursion into Ukraine could create the perception of a common threat[…]
For President Biden, who was desperate to escape the Afghanistan disaster, a victorious conflict would be a pivotal moment in his presidency[…]
Never in the realm of international relations was there a state that acted so consistently against its national interests. It put itself in grave danger when it announced its intention to join NATO in 2004, violating the 1997 Treaty on Friendship between Ukraine and the Russian Federation[…]
The preceding facts illustrate a common overriding interest among NATO leadership, its member states, and Ukraine in instigating the invasion[…]Russia was the sole party that attempted to prevent the conflict