NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard | National Security Archive
Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documentsnsarchive.gwu.edu
This is a good read --
All the more reason I support Russia in it's action through and through, NATO & Co., brought this upon themselves. When you have a threat on your border your take it out completely, and Russia's action on Sevastopol makes much more sense as they've saw clearly what was happening around them.
What? Russia going to invade all the neighboring countries like last time? Gain territory and have a barrier with other European countries?
CIA Islamabad station chief wrote a book "88 Days to Kandahar" where he mentions about all the details about CIA and Taliban meeting in Pakistan. Taliban wanted US to share explicit proofs that bin laden was involved and US considered it as a ploy to delay the offensive.
Based on their meetings, one can argue that invasion could have been avoided.
Considering Bin Laden has shown in videos justifying why he did 9/11, not sure how much more proof the Taliban needed. But they weren't going to hand over the man who killed Taliban's most hated enemy Masood days before 9/11, not to mentioned Mullah Omar married one of his daughter's to Bin Laden. Taliban wouldn't put him on trial.
CIA haramis are masters of false flag operations. Accusing Russia of false flag is beyond hilarious. How did it go with Afghanistan / Japan / iraq/ Cambodia etc?
From 'Not Us' To 'Why Hide It?': How Russia Denied Its Crimea Invasion, Then Admitted It
Russia initially denied that its soldiers seized government buildings and other strategic facilities in Crimea ahead of its March 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula five years ago this week -- despite obvious signs of its involvement. It took a year for Moscow to come clean.
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Days later, during his first public comments on the events in Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked directly whether Russian troops were blockading Ukrainian soldiers inside their bases on the peninsula.
Despite the clear evidence of Russian soldiers' role in these blockades over the previous days, Putin replied: "Those were local self-defense units."
The Bloomberg reporter who asked the question noted that the armed men wore "uniforms strongly resembling Russian Army uniforms."
Putin responded: "Take a look at the post-Soviet states. There are many uniforms there that are similar. You can go to a store and buy any kind of uniform."
The same day, Ukrainian journalists published a video on YouTube in which one of several commandos deployed in Crimea said of himself and his colleagues: "We're Russians."
Asked about videos in which the armed men in Crimea say they are Russian, Putin's defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said: "It's complete nonsense," Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported at the time. Asked whether the men in unmarked uniforms in Crimea were Russian, Shoigu added, "Absolutely [not], are you kidding?" Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported.
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