{"id":255684,"date":"2022-07-05T07:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T07:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255684"},"modified":"2022-07-07T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T07:04:42","slug":"nato-boss-lets-the-cat-out-of-the-bag-us-led-bloc-has-been-preparing-since-2014-to-use-ukraine-for-proxy-conflict-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255684","title":{"rendered":"NATO boss lets the cat out of the bag: US-led bloc has \u2018been preparing since 2014\u2019 to use Ukraine for proxy conflict with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Nuland handing out cookies to anti-government protesters in Kiev in 2014.<\/p>\n

Robert Bridge \u2013 RT.com July 3, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg may have said the quiet part out loud on Wednesday when he revealed to reporters that NATO\u2019s push into Eastern Europe since 2014 was done specifically with Russia in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is also that we have been preparing for this since 2014,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cThat is the reason that we have increased our presence in the eastern part of the alliance, why NATO allies have started to invest more in defense, and why we have increased [our] readiness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The NATO chief went on to insist that Russia has been \u201cusing force in the eastern Donbass since 2014.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What he neglected to mention, though, was the role Western powers played in the outbreak of civil violence in Kiev on February 24, 2013 that led to the Maidan coup and, ultimately, to the current situation. The US and its influence on the ground in Ukraine, channelled through “civil society” groups it bankrolled, was largely responsibility for that mess.<\/p>\n

Even Victoria \u2018F**k the EU\u2019<\/a> Nuland (then-US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs) admitted as much in April 2014 when she said Washington had invested $5 billion dollars into \u201cspreading democracy\u201d<\/em> in Ukraine \u2013 apparently because such efforts worked so well before.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s greatest \u2018crime\u2019 at the time was to provide an alternative route to national development for Kiev. The US Diplomatic Forces flew into swift action on November 21, 2013 when the government of then-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych made the sudden decision not to sign the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA), which the West had been insisting upon, opting for closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Here is where all the talk about \u201cbuilding democracy\u201d<\/em> was exposed as the lie it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a huge shame to see five years of work and preparation go to waste if the AA is not signed in the near future,\u201d<\/em> Nuland said at the December 13, 2013 US-Ukraine Foundation conference. \u201cSo it is time to finish the job.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That sounds more like an implicit threat than any sort of call to democratic principles. As Ukraine would soon discover, Washington considers as \u2018democratic\u2019 only those countries that obey its will.<\/p>\n