Comment on 'We can’t sit back and watch’: Former MI6 boss says Britain must get ready for war as Putin threatens Europe

Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TC_209@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Restore this post.

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s bullshit. I said something that doesn’t fit the hive mind about Russia and it gets censored.

    Here’s the former US ambassador to the USSR confirming that promises were made to Gorbachev that NATO wouldn’t move Eastwards

    youtu.be/ZHm_7T7QNl8?t=11m46s

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There was no promise of NATO expansion. Gorbachev himself had said there was no such promise.

  Countries previously occupied by the soviets didn’t want a repeat and sought security guarantees by joining NATO, something that they’re entitled to do.

  The people got rid of a president who was once looking for closer ties to the EU, then visits Putin and suddenly wanted to get cosier with Russia, doing a complete 180. Let’s also conveniently forget Russia poisoning of the pro-west presidential candidate in 2007. Was that the fault of the west too?

  Your comment reeks of Russian propaganda.

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There was no promise of NATO expansion. Gorbachev himself had said there was no such promise.

    This is categorically not true. Former ambassador to the Soviet Union James Matlock confirmed that the US gave assurances to Gorbachev when he was General Secretary that if Germany united NATO would not move further eastward. Here is the interview from 1994 (11 minutes 46 seconds

    youtu.be/ZHm_7T7QNl8?t=11m46s

    Your comment reeks of Russian propaganda.

    My comment was deleted because people think anything that isn’t blindly Russiophobic is propaganda.

    I left Reddit to get away from this hive mind bullshit and outrageous censorship.

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