Stanislav Krapivnik is a former U.S. Army officer from Donbas, who moved from the US to Russia 15 years ago.
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Thank you, Glenn...
With the threat of more intension about wars, trusting on YouTube to remain a bit usable to sensing what is really going on, is risky.
So i will be following you on Substack too now.
Keep on digging in the Chaos, be a light in the darkness.
Just saying.
Cassandra
The 3 Pillars of the Western Empire
On the dangerous expansionist ambitions of a weakened empire
Although Ukraine is not officially a NATO member, since 2014 NATO has effectively established a strong presence in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army was heavily armed by NATO and trained for a war against Russia. This can be seen as an imposed, unofficial NATO membership.
For Russia, this logically represented an existential threat to which Putin eventually had to react.
The CIA coup against Yanukovych and the subsequent entry of NATO and US intelligence units into Ukraine occurred against the will of the Ukrainian people, who overwhelmingly opposed NATO membership, knowing full well that it would be practically a declaration of war against Russia.
After German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West solemnly promised the Russians that NATO would not expand further eastward.
After Putin succeeded Yeltsin as president in 2000, he sought to cultivate friendly relations with the West. Initially, he succeeded. Among other things, he delivered a speech in German to the German Bundestag in Berlin, aiming for reconciliation between the once-hostile nations. Germany and many other European countries maintained friendly relations and trade with Russia. It seemed like a win-win situation.
Unfortunately, however, European countries are not truly sovereign nations.
The so-called Western world is an empire built primarily on three pillars: the ...
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