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Twenty years and 5 billion dollars. After Secretary of State James Baker, in 1990, promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand 1 inch to the East... Followed by 10 Eastward expansions in 1999 and 2004. This is the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.Originally Posted by DDT
It is USA funding that keeps NATO alive and, as Clinton said, "@#$% the EU". So I am convinced that NATO agendas are born in the US.
But every coin has 2 sides so let us not forget who backed the separatists in Lugansk and Donetsk. And who insisted that Crimea return to Russia. Vladimir Putin is probably one of the greatest and strongest leaders of all time but he is no god. Like all politicians, he has to consider approval ratings and monetary gains. So what I think we have now is 2 great bulls with locked horns.
@Lampada - I also ignore FOX news. I consider it a State-run media outlet.
CURRENT SITUATION
The Governor of Mariupol has ordered the evacuation of the remaining residents. Lugansk is planning a referendum to join Russia. Also, the next peace talks will be in Istanbul, Turkey.
Military analyst, Cedric Leighton, has offered 2 possible outcomes:
1. That Ukraine will be split along a Lugansk-Donetsk-Mariupol line, creating a land-bridge to Crimea.
2. That Ukraine will be split along the Dnieper river.
Controlled by Poland-Lithuania, then Germany, then the Soviet Union, and now, the USA, I have to wonder if Ukraine has ever really stood on it's own.
