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Min fråga kvarstår dock. Hur hade USA reagerat om Kanada och Mexiko hade placerat ut kärnvapen enkom för att skydda sig mot USA? Amerikanarna gillade inte att Sovjet placerade ut missiler på Kuba och jag kan ju bara gissa att de inte hade varit positivt inställda till Kanada och Mexiko.
Om vi går tillbaka till 1990-talet så var det flera som varnade för att en expansion av NATO skulle leda till konfrontation.
"In 1998, George Kennan, an American diplomat and historian known as the ‘architect of the Cold War’, said NATO expansion would mean nothing less than “the beginning of a new Cold War,” warning that it would be a “tragic mistake.”
“Of course, this will provoke a bad reaction from Russia. And when that happens, [those who made decisions about NATO expansion] will say that we have always told you the Russians are like that. But it’s just not true,” he said."
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"Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, “Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”
“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said."
Till och med den judiska krigshöken Henry Kissinger var emot NATO-expansion och det säger väl en hel del.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/oped/experts-warned-that-nato-expansion-would-lead-to-war-but-nobody-listened-3771682
Om vi går tillbaka till 1990-talet så var det flera som varnade för att en expansion av NATO skulle leda till konfrontation.
"In 1998, George Kennan, an American diplomat and historian known as the ‘architect of the Cold War’, said NATO expansion would mean nothing less than “the beginning of a new Cold War,” warning that it would be a “tragic mistake.”
“Of course, this will provoke a bad reaction from Russia. And when that happens, [those who made decisions about NATO expansion] will say that we have always told you the Russians are like that. But it’s just not true,” he said."
/.../
"Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, “Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”
“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said."
Till och med den judiska krigshöken Henry Kissinger var emot NATO-expansion och det säger väl en hel del.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/oped/experts-warned-that-nato-expansion-would-lead-to-war-but-nobody-listened-3771682
1. Vem har pratat om att placera ut kärnvapen nära Ryssland (förutom Ryssland själva)?
2. Har Ukraina ens sagt sig vilja gå med i NATO (innan Ryssland invaderade dem)?
3. Finland och Sverige hade inga planer på att ansluta sig till NATO innan Ryssland invaderade Ukraina.
Intressant med en tanzaniansk tidning som val av källa.
