For those who keep ranting about NATO's "broken promise not to enlarge" - it's another of Putin's lies:
brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/amp/
"What the
Germans, Americans, British and French did agree to in 1990 was that there would be no deployment of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR."
"When one reads the full text of the Woerner speech cited by Putin,
it is clear that the secretary general's comments referred to NATO forces in eastern Germany, not a broader commitment not to enlarge the Alliance."
It was confirmed by Gorbachev himself.Also:
"Several years after German reunification, in 1997, NATO said that in the "current and foreseeable security environment" there would be no permanent stationing of substantial combat forces on the territory of new NATO members.
Up until the Russian military occupation of Crimea in March, there was virtually no stationing of any NATO combat forces on the territory of new members. Since March, NATO has increased the presence of its military forces in the Baltic region and Central Europe."
And:
"
Putin is not stupid, and his aides surely have
access to the former Soviet records from the time and understand the history of the commitments made by Western leaders and NATO."
And if it's about NATO why Russia didn't attack NATO?
Because Russia would get destroyed :)
We know that he too can stop this war but somehow this little factoid is never mentioned. Weird...
You always fail to mention that Putin could stop this war and not start it in the first place. Weird...