NATO Secretary General at joint committee meeting at the European Parliament, 07 SEP 2023
During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting U.S. government lying about the war in order to protect politicians who would be embarrassed by the truth. A half-century later, during the Ukraine War, the manure is piled even higher.
According to the U.S. government and the ever-obsequious New York Times, the Ukraine war was “unprovoked,” the Times’ favorite adjective to describe the war. Putin, allegedly mistaking himself for Peter the Great, invaded Ukraine to recreate the Russian Empire. Yet last week, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg committed a Washington gaffe, meaning that he accidently blurted out the truth.
In testimony to the European Union Parliament, Stoltenberg made clear that it was America’s relentless push to enlarge NATO to Ukraine that was the real cause of the war and why it continues today. Here are Stoltenberg’s revealing words:
We have to remember the background the background was that President Putin declared in the Autumn of 2021 and he actually sent a draft treat that they wanted NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement.
That was what what he sent us and that was that that was a pre condition for not invade uh uh Ukraine.
Of course we didn’t sign that. The opposite happened he wanted us to sign a promise never to enlarge NATO he wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in in all allies that have joined NATO since 1997 meaning half of NATO all the Central and Eastern Europe we should remove NATO from from that part of of our alliance introducing some kind of e and b or second class membership.
We rejected that.
So he went to war to prevent uh NATO more NATO closest borders he has he he has got the exact opposite he has got more NATO presence in the eastern part of the Lions and he has also uh uh seen that Finand has already joined the alliance and Sweden will soon be a full member