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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s also hypocritical. NATO is willing to allow Ukraine to join, but not Russia:

The archives show irrefutably that the U.S. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Nonetheless, U.S. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision.

[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its behind a paywall can you copy paste?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep. After the USSR was murdered and the State sliced up and sold for spare parts to the Imperialist bourgeoisie in the west, there was a nationalist bourgeoisie that regained control of the Russian Federation's resources and industry, and the West never forgave them for that. That's why Russia is a far-right dystopia in many ways, but unlike far-right dystopias allies to the US Empire, the Russian Federation is depicted in a negative light exclusively in western Media, unlike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Argentina, etc.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)