Thu Jan 26, 2023 – 1:06 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — What happened since the Soviets agreed to the peaceful breakup of their empire does much to clarify the situation in Ukraine today. Why is the West fighting a proxy war over a former Soviet state, when the fall of communism was supposed to bring a ‘peace dividend’? This was a very popular idea amongst the American public in 1990, who overwhelmingly favored that military spending should go instead towards solving problems at home.
There were other ideas which were current at the time, notably the assurances given to the Soviets over the reunification of Germany, the placing of NATO troops, and a pledge that NATO would not advance “one inch eastwards.” What happened in reality was that the U.S. did the opposite. In fact, recently declassified documents show diplomatic communications and top level transcripts which reveal that the U.S. was preparing for the expansion of NATO into ten former Soviet controlled nations at the same time as it was promising the Russians there would be no such move at all.
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