Germany News Mag. Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" About NATO Expansion

 

As the years old confrontation along the border between Ukraine and Russia has escalated from shouting childish insults at each other to actual shooting with ethnic Russian rebel separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling and initiating a "general mobilization" of military-age males, with Moscow denying they plan to invade and Ukraine's leaders in Kiev accusing US, UK and French leaders of hysteria for the way they have talked up the threat of war - Germany's leading newspaper  Spiegel asks the question fundamental to the entire conflict...

IS VLADIMIR PUTIN JUSTIFIED IN SAYING UKRAINE'S ADMISSION TO NATO WILL NOT BE TOLERATED BY RUSSIA.

The issue hinges on a letter sent by  the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin in September 1993 to US President Bill Clinton. Yeltsin complained at length about the eastward expansion of NATO at a time when, after the disintegration of The Soviet Union and The Warsaw Pact Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were interested in joining the North Atlantic military alliance. Yeltsin argued that the Russian government saw this as  bid by the western powers, particularly the USA, UK and France ~(the old FUKUS axis) to effectively bring about theisolation" of Russia. Yeltsin asserted that the "Two Plus Four Treaty" linked to Germany's 1990 reunification precluded the option of expanding the NATO zone into the East."

Spiegel commented, "There is essentially no other historical issue that has poisoned relations between Moscow and the West as much in the last three decades as the disagreement over what, precisely, was agreed to in 1990."

Since the 1990 letter, NATO has recruited 14 former Soviet Republics or Warsaw Pact countries in Eastern Europe despite many of them being nowhere near the Atlantic Ocean. The Kremlin has consistently complained of having been duped by NATO and the EU but both organisdations have continued to pursue explanion projects. Now besides NATO's courting of Ukraine there is talk of admitting Kazakhstan into the alliance despite it's being a central Asian nation.

According to current Russian President Vladimir Putin, "NATO cheated shamelessly."

"You promised us in the 1990s that (NATO) would not move an inch to the East," he said last month as tensions over Unktaine rose, making the comments to justify demands for written guarantees that Ukraine will never be accepted into the Western alliance.

But that’s not all. At the end of January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote an open letter to his Western counterparts in which he cited additional understandings. In particular, he focused on the Charter for European Security, rooted in agreements reached in 1990. East and West had concurred at the time that every country has a right to freely choose the alliance it wished to be part of, while also emphasizing the "indivisibility of security." Later, that became "the obligation of each State not to strengthen its security at the expense of the security of other States," as Lavrov explicitly mentions in his letter. -Spiegel

Ukraine, meanwhile, wants to know how fast they can join. This is not surprising as the current Ukrainian government was installed in 2014 by the western powers after a colour revolution allegely formented by agents of the US deep state i n Ukraine deposed a corrupt and pro - Moscow but democratically elected government.

 

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