By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Globalists own all six of the major news outlets thus, mostly globalist (another term for the Deep State) news is presented in America. When censorship prevails there is only their approved side. What follows is largely the omitted side of the Ukraine Russia War that just escalated into WW III when Biden supplied, then authorized, firing long range missiles into Russia. North Korea has entered on the side of Russia and the UK and France have authorized troops should Trump discontinue funding that war, which is certain.
The Deep State media still refuse to share two important aspects of the Ukraine Russian War story—their own 2014 Coup d’état gaining power in Ukraine and NATO’s roll in provoking Russia first to war then to World War III. As to the first, LibertyUnderfire.com formally published, “Putin is Destroying the New World Order in Ukraine,” March 18, 2022. The other presents NATO as the foundational cause of the conflict. Cold War history, foreign to most millennial journalists, cannot be omitted. The facts presented here can easily be verified, not by an non-degreed fact checker employed to discredit any view outside the globalist view, but by a common 20th Century textbook or encyclopedia.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed April 4, 1949, after World War II as a security alliance against further expansion of socialist/communist countries via Russia. Since 1917 Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin, consolidated its neighbors becoming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR. Article V of the NATO military alliance agreement obligated all 12 signatory nations to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all.
Russia correctly saw the alliance as a threat to its socialists interests. In response she created the Warsaw Pact in 1955 to counter NATO, comprised of eight surrounding nations. They too adopted the philosophy—an attack on one by the West is an attack on all. Its eight members were: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Russia,. A standoff between the NATO, “freedom” nations, and the Warsaw Pact, socialist nations, lasted for the next 36 years. The Berlin wall collapsed in 1989 and two years later, in 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated under Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.
A unified Germany was looking to join one or the other alliance. President George H.W. Bush wanted to ensure Germany joined NATO and made an offer to Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. That offer “suggested if Germany became a NATO member NATO would stop expanding ‘not one inch eastward’—no new members. Today the US says it made no such promise, that no such agreement was ever struck, but hundreds of memos, meeting minutes, and transcripts from U.S. archives indicate otherwise.” Germany joined NATO in 1990. Part of that understanding was that both the Warsaw Pact and NATO would dissolve. Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact ending the Cold War, NATO did not.
That promise was broken and “NATO refused to cease its operations. And to add insult to injury, they kept the door for membership open. Russia saw it as a stab in the back and NATO kept pushing the dagger deeper.” Without any effective resistance to NATO expansion it continued to assimilate country after country coming ever eastward toward Russia—absorbing former USSR, or Russian federated countries. In 1999 Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic joined NATO followed five years later, in 2004, by another wave of seven Central and Eastern European nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. In 2009, “Albania and Croatia joined NATO and the most recent entries are Montenegro and North Macedonia, both situated in Russia’s backyard…. As of 2021, NATO officially recognized three more aspiring members, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Georgia and Ukraine” as wanting membership. Since then NATO had been in talks with Sweden, Finland and Serbia for membership (“Two Sides to Every Story: Did NATO push Ukraine into War? Gravitas Plus, by Palki Sharma Upadhyay, March 6, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU).
Although the West applauded the disintegration of the Soviet Union most Russians instead were traumatized by it. “In an instant they lost 1/3 of their territory, half of their population and most of their military might.… They felt that an unjust settlement had been imposed on them and it was done in their moment of maximum weakness and vulnerability. So they looked at any state leaving Russia sphere of influence as both a strategic loss and a matter of national humiliation.”
NATO started with 12 founding members when there was fear of the USSR bringing communism to Western Europe, now it has more than doubled to 32 countries where Russia has posed little threat to retake land outside what it once governed as the USSR. So, much of Eastern Europe, once part of the Soviet Union, has now been assimilated into “NATO and this happened despite Russia’s protests and warnings.” Actually, all of the Warsaw Pact countries except Russia are now NATO members; and two of them, Poland and Romania, house U.S. military bases. If Russia manned military bases in Mexico the USA would deem it a threat.
In 2007 Vladimir Putin addressed the annual Munich Conference. “NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders. This expansion represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our Western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?” Said another way, “This NATO military alliance has technically absorbed the entire security belt of Moscow” (Ibid).
We too today ask Bill Clinton, father and son Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden the same thing. “Against whom is this expansion intended?” The United States had more impact in NATO’s enlargement than any other country. You are the ones who financed and built 13 or more bioweapons labs in Ukraine and placed a historical enemy military pact, NATO, on Russia’s very border. Why would Russia not feel threatened when NATO organized 32 nations against it? Again, Russia has posed little threat to retake land outside what it once governed as the USSR. For what purpose? You’re disregard of, and insensitivity to, NATO history is equivalent to poking the once Soviet Bear into rage.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine may or may not justify Putin’s cleaning out the bioweapons labs and the Neo-Nazi Deep State globalist forces in the country threatening Russia but it should be noted that NATO, and the above named U. S. presidents, should accept responsibility for poking the bear by NATO’s 20 country enlargement. It presents NATO as the foundational cause of the Ukraine Russia War and of World War III as well. Yes, Joe Biden pulled the trigger starting World War III by authorizing the firing of long range missiles deep inside Russia but NATO certainly and intentionally nudged him. NATO has outlived its purpose.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 797
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