Did NATO provoke Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
Glenn Diesen and Sergey Radchenko debate the comments by Nigel Farage
I was invited by Spectator to discuss/debate Nigel Farage’s argument that NATO provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I argue it is obvious and well-documented that NATO provoked the invasion and sabotaged the Istanbul peace agreement, and this is only made into a controversial argument by falsely equating it to “legitimising” the invasion. Facts are objective and should not be judged by the narrative they support.
Sergey Radchenko vs Glenn Diesen
Of course they provoked the Russian offensive into Ukraine. It has been an ongoing provocation for decades as we all know. NATO expansion, colour revolution and destabilizing Georgia and then Ukraine. In the fall of 2021 the US warned Russia and told the world that Russia would start a war. They kept pouring out this message all day, all week.
When Putin told that NATO couldnt be allowed on the doorstep of Russia in the form of a deeply corrupt state of Ukraine, Stoltenberg brushed off the red-line message as proof of Russian agressivness. All those Biden statements of ”dont you dare”, we will crush you with measures never seen before put Russia in a state of damn if you do, damned if you dont.
And when Zelensky the days before the invasion requested nuclear weapons on Ukraine soil the time was running out for Russia. If NATO had moved troops into Ukraine as a safety measure I doubt Russia would have moved in.
Russia waited for an ukrainian offensive in Donbass but US/NATO tricked them to move first.
No doubt.