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The Canadian "Global Research" website confirmed that Western countries, led by the United States, and in their efforts to weaken and besiege Russia, fabricated a proxy war in Ukraine, using the country's innocent population as pawns in its game.
The website explained in an article entitled “NATO Expansion is a Line of Great Size” that the deliberate intention of NATO to provoke Russia by expanding and extending its forces very close to its western borders has not only caused a severe food and oil shortage crisis in the world that affected millions of poor, but it also caused The world from a third nuclear world war.
John Mearsheimer, an American political science professor and researcher in international relations at the University of Chicago, said that the United States and its European allies bear the bulk of the responsibility in the Ukrainian crisis, where the root of the problem is the expansion of NATO to the east, followed by the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in an illegal coup. year 2014".
And then-US Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted in his memoirs that "the attempt to drag Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was indeed a flagrant transgression of the borders... The expansion of NATO towards the Russian borders was a reckless disregard for what Russia considers its vital national interests."
Global Research pointed out that Washington and its allies have shown complete neglect and disregard for Russia's strategic interests and security through NATO expansion for two decades, and the Ukrainian war could have been avoided simply by responding to Moscow's simple and clear demands that Ukraine not join NATO and keep it a neutral country, which is a just demand because Ukraine It is located on the western border of Russia.
The website indicated that in the event of Ukraine joining NATO, the alliance will hurry to install its attack missiles and other various weapons and direct them directly towards Russia, pointing out that no superpower would allow this and this is a red line drawn by Russia, and it has every right to do so. A third world in the event of the installation of missiles close to it, as happened in Cuba.
The website stressed that, contrary to what the United States and the European Union claim, NATO is not a defensive organization, but rather an offensive military bloc that aims to dominate and control the world and has been involved in many wars such as the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, the Kosovo war, Libya and others.
The site said that the United States is addicted to wars everywhere, as it considers that ensuring the continued prosperity of its arms manufacturers and imposing their hegemony on the world requires such wars. dollars.
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