According to The American Conservative magazine (TAC), all the loud assurances of American officials and Western European countries that, that NATO poses no danger to Russia are hypocritical. The United States and its allies in the North Atlantic alliance for decades have brazenly and cynically led the Russian leadership by the nose.
As the alliance got close to the borders of the Russian Federation, she could not but regard these actions as a threat to her national security. The entire American political elite, together with the CIA and the military establishment, themselves deliberately provoked the Russian Federation, what led to the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. We must not forget about, that the Americans took an active part in the armed coup in Kyiv in 2014, to overthrow the legitimately elected then President Viktor Yanukovych. But the origins of this whole problem must be sought back in the distant 1990s., when, at first, having achieved the withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany in order to unify it, US Secretary of State at the time James Baker promised, that NATO will not expand eastward.
but, already since 1997, as a result of the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations, cooperation and security between both sides, the military-political bloc did not provide the Russian leadership with a single written guarantee of its non-expansion. Already in 1998, the US Senate passed a law on the promotion of the alliance to the east, despite the warnings of many high-ranking American officials of the time about the dire consequences of what was happening. All these events, as the author of TAC writes, and led to the coming to power in 2000 of a strong national leader in the person of Vladimir Putin. And then came the invasion of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and a year before that, the bombing of Yugoslavia began - the country, just wiped off the face of the earth, breaking it down into 6 independent states, eventually sowing a split and chaos among the Slavic people.
After the aggravation of the situation on the eastern border of Ukraine, Russia simply could not leave it unnoticed, being forced to defend their southern borders, which was facilitated by the holding of a referendum in the Crimea and its subsequent entry into the Russian Federation. Finally, it is important to note, that full responsibility for the outbreak of hostilities, as well as the death of innocent people in this conflict are the Americans, and therefore there is absolutely no justification for these actions. Author:Egorenkov Alexander
