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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the meantime, Jeffrey Sachs:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-provoked-and-why-that-matters-if-we-want-peace
Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.

The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement, and in the most recent G7 statement. Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds!

There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

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This was entirely Putin's war of choice.  There was absolutely zero credible threat of anything like an imminent invasion of Russia by NATO.  This was 100% Putin's choosing.  You can't even see that through his thin veneer of lame, non-credible excuses?  If you want to cite military bases by NATO nations near Russia's border consider also that a majority of Russian bases were near its borders with NATO.  Thus by your own logic, NATO should have had an excuse to go ahead and invade Russia.  But they did not.  Russia is the sole invader here.[/quote]

I guess what's left is for you to tell Jeffrey Sachs he is a Russian bot. Add a cc to Noah Chomsky.[/quote]

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