{"id":65771,"date":"2023-09-22T05:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65771"},"modified":"2023-09-22T05:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:45:20","slug":"jeffrey-sachs-nato-expansion-ukraines-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65771","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine\u2019s Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine\u2019s Destruction<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Ukraine is being destroyed by U.S. arrogance, proving again Henry Kissinger\u2019s adage that to be America\u2019s enemy is dangerous, while to be its friend is fatal.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the European Parliament on Sept. 7. (NATO, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

D<\/strong>uring the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the U.S. government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic\u00a0Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>\u00a0leaked 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.<\/p>\n

According to the U.S. government and the ever-obsequious\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, the Ukraine war was \u201cunprovoked,\u201d the\u00a0Times\u2019<\/em>\u00a0favorite 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 accidentally blurted out the truth.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0testimony to the European Union Parliament<\/a>, Stoltenberg made clear that it was America\u2019s relentless push to enlarge NATO to Ukraine that was the real cause of the war and why it continues today. Here are Stoltenberg\u2019s revealing words:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine. Of course, we didn\u2019t sign that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine\u2019s Destruction Ukraine is being destroyed by U.S. arrogance, proving again Henry Kissinger\u2019s adage that to be America\u2019s enemy is dangerous, while to be its friend is fatal. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the European Parliament on Sept. 7. (NATO, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) During the disastrous Vietnam War, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7669,281,10671,553,694,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-65771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-common-dreams","tag-europe","tag-jeffrey-sachs","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65772,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771\/revisions\/65772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}