Trump: Biden NATO plans provoked the Ukraine war – Asia Times

Bombshell statement&nbsp, in&nbsp,’ All In’ audio ignored by key US internet

Former US President Donald Trump made a bomb statement undetected by the mainstream US news media that suggested he should join NATO in the wake of President Biden’s proposal to launch an attack on Ukraine.

” Biden was saying all the bad points”, Trump told&nbsp, opportunity capitalist&nbsp, David Sacks. &nbsp,” And one of the worst points he was saying was, not, Ukraine will go into NATO”. The Republican presidential candidate added,” When I listened to him talk, I said, this guy’s going to start a battle. As you may well know, there has never even been a hint of Russia entering Ukraine. That would have rarely happened. Russia was never going to harm Ukraine….

” Subsequently all of a sudden, they attack. I said,’ What’s going on ok?’ But if you look at the language from Biden… he’s also saying it,” Trump&nbsp, added.

The dark story of an “unprovoked” Russian invasion on Ukraine was repeated endlessly in the popular media’s echo chamber by the former leader and Republican presidential candidate for 2024. The US Establishment is then subject to the humiliation of having sparked a conflict with Russia before losing it. Worse than a violence,” Napoleon’s foreign secretary Talleyrand quipped”, it’s a blunder. ” &nbsp,

A day later, &nbsp, British Reform Party leader&nbsp, Nigel Farage, a Trump companion, &nbsp, repeated Trump’s claim”. This man was being given a cause by NATO’s and the European Union’s constant rise to give him the excuse to declare that his Russian allies are coming for us once more and declare war. &nbsp, We’ve provoked this battle,” Farage told a BBC recruiter”. Of sure it’s his wrong –&nbsp, he’s used what we’ve done as an reason.”

In contrast to the sandy quietness of their American peers, the whole of the American media excoriated Farage, the Brexit president whose Reform Party is today polling ahead of the former American Conservatives&nbsp, as the July 4 general election approaches. &nbsp, The British press ignored Trump’s earlier remarks entirely. A link to a report from the Kyiv Independent served as the only document on the Google News page.

Because no British media will write Trump’s undetected remarks, it is important to include them in this lengthy article.

” This would have never happened if I were leader, Trump continued. “Ukraine would have never happened. The Jewish invasion would have never occurred. And prices would have never happened. Those are three great stuff. Look, I&nbsp, read the other day, Ukraine is now, where they do n’t have &nbsp, the soldiers, they do n’t have the manpower, they want to use old people”.

” The typical age of their soldiers&nbsp, is 43, so they’re running out of&nbsp, people”, Sacks responded, and asked:” Mr. President, I appreciate your comment that you want to bring a peace deal to Ukraine so that people stop dying, and I fully agree with that attitude. If it were necessary for the Russians and Ukrainians to reach a peace agreement, would you be willing to abandon NATO rise? Do you have the time to complete that?”

Trump&nbsp, replied: &nbsp,” But, &nbsp, for twenty times, I heard that if Ukraine goes into NATO it’s a real concern for Russia. I’ve heard that for a long time. And I think that’s truly why this combat started…. One of the things Biden was saying was, not, Ukraine will join NATO, and he was saying all the wrong things. When I listened to&nbsp, him speak I said,’ This dude’s going to start a conflict.’ As you know, &nbsp, for four decades there&nbsp, was never&nbsp, even talk of Russia going into Ukraine. &nbsp, That would have rarely happened. &nbsp, Russia was never going to strike Ukraine”.

Sacks added,” The month before&nbsp, the Russians invaded, &nbsp ,]Secretary of State Antony ] Blinken told]Russian Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov that the administration &nbsp, not&nbsp, only was going to bring Ukraine into NATO, but they thought it was ok for the&nbsp, US … to&nbsp, put nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Why did the Russians explode in terror? &nbsp, You talk about offense”.

Trump replied:” This declare you were running Russia. You would n’t be too happy. That’s always been off the board. That’s a border…They do n’t want to have soldiers right on their border. &nbsp, It’s always been understood, and that ‘s&nbsp, yet before Putin. &nbsp, You can go against their wishes, and it does n’t mean it’s right when they say that, but it’s very provocative”.

Biden&nbsp, played cautious about Ukraine’s possible participation in NATO, but&nbsp, he&nbsp, told Ukraine’s President Zelensky&nbsp, in December 2021&nbsp, that it was off to Ukraine whether to add or not, a de facto support of Ukraine’s NATO account. &nbsp, There was no lack of clarity about Biden’s position. &nbsp, Sen. Josh Hawley&nbsp, ( R. MO), a Trump ally, called on the Biden Administration to drop its support for Ukraine’s NATO membership in February 2022, just before the Russian invasion. &nbsp,

In his February 23, 2022 address on the eve of the Russian invasion, Putin spelled out why Russia would n’t tolerate Ukraine’s NATO membership. It would allow the United States to fly quickly from Moscow to intercept short-range missiles. ” The Alliance, its military infrastructure, has reached Russia’s borders”, Putin said, adding:

This is one of the main reasons behind the European security crisis, which has had the worst impact on the entire international relations system and caused the loss of trust.

The&nbsp, United States is developing its all- purpose Standard Missile- 6, which can provide air and missile defense, as well as strike ground and surface targets. In other words, the allegedly defensive US missile defense system is advancing and enhancing its…

The Pentagon has been actively developing a number of land-based attack weapons, including ballistic missiles that can strike targets at distances of up to 5,500 kilometers. If deployed in Ukraine, such systems will be able to hit targets in Russia’s entire European part. Tomahawk cruise missiles will take less than 35 minutes to fly to Moscow, ballistic missiles from Kharkov will take seven to eight, and hypersonic assault weapons will take four to five.

It is like a knife to the throat. I have &nbsp, no doubt that they hope to carry out these plans, as they did many times in the past, expanding NATO eastward, moving their military infrastructure to Russian borders and fully ignoring our concerns, protests, and warnings.

The issues are the same as in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Russian missiles were sent to Cuba after the United States placed medium-range nuclear missiles on its Turkish border with Russia. After the US agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey, a deal that was kept secret for years for security reasons, Russia agreed to do so.

Because Russia detailed and in-depth how it would respond, members of the Washington establishment were aware of how Russia would respond. However, the establishment saw this as an opportunity to oust Russia with economic sanctions.

Biden&nbsp, tweeted&nbsp, on March 22, 2022,” As a result of our unprecedented sanctions, the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble. Russian GDP is expected to shrink by 50 %. Prior to this invasion, it was ranked as the 11th-largest economy in the world, and it will soon not even be in the top 20.

In 2023, Russia overtook Japan to take fourth place in world economic rankings, according to the World Bank.

The Ukraine disaster has the potential to permanently undermine American hegemony, in addition to the “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq. &nbsp, America’s allies ( or soon- to- be- former allies ) have no illusions about this.

“Ukraine and the collapse of the West” was the headline June 23 of Germany’s largest- circulation daily newsletter, the&nbsp, Pioneer Briefing. “Ukraine is exhausted, the conservative camp is split and business would like to normalize relations with Russia, wrote editor&nbsp, Gabor Steingart. &nbsp, He cited six reasons why the war was lost:

  • Ukraine is an” exhausted country,”
  • the West’s strategy of isolating Russia has failed,
  • America is tired of exporting democracy,
  • Germany is reversing its support for a persistent war:
  • the conservative camp is split, with prominent Christian Democrat Armin Laschet&nbsp, endorsing the Social- Democratic government’s caution towards Ukraine, &nbsp, and
  • business is already looking ahead towards reconstruction.

Laschet, the&nbsp, 2021 Christian Democratic candidate for Chancellor, &nbsp, endorsed Olaf Scholz’s policy of” prudence and caution” with respect to Ukraine, upending the&nbsp, hawkish position of CDU leader Friedrich Merz.

In the July 9&nbsp, European Parliament elections, antiwar parties, most prominently the Alternative für Deutschland ( AfD ), gained sharply at the expense of the Social Democrats and Greens. Even more remarkably, a plurality of members of the Christian Democrats, Germany’s largest party, told Die Welt in a recent poll that they would prefer a coalition with the AfD over any other party.

According to internal AfD polling results, German voters prioritized the Ukraine war. &nbsp, Twenty- six percent of respondents said that” securing peace “was their number one concern, followed by social security ( at 23 percent ) and immigration at 17 percent. &nbsp,

Having failed to isolate, much less defeat, Russia, the establishment is calling for desperate measures, including attacks on military infrastructure with Western weapons from Ukrainian territory. &nbsp, Putin responded by offering high- tech Russian weaponry, as yet unspecified, to North Korea, a nuclear power considered a wild card by its neighbors.

Putin’s visit to North Korea last week sent a chill through the Establishment. The&nbsp, New York Times&nbsp, wrote:

Mr. Putin’s visit to Pyongyang and the announcement of a pact to provide “mutual assistance in the event of aggression” were two of the most heartfelt&nbsp, back-to-the-Crypt moments yet, underscoring that efforts by the world’s three biggest nuclear powers to halt North Korea’s nuclear proliferation had been in decline for some time.

Putin made far more of a pledge to maintain nuclear restraint than he ever did. He promised unspecified technological assistance that, if it were implemented in the few crucial technologies Mr. Kim had sought to develop, would allow the North to create a warhead that would survive re-enter space and pose a threat to its numerous adversaries, starting with the United States.

Americans play Monopoly, Russians play chess. Putin proposed a geopolitical flank that might exacerbate West relations, with the goal of making Ukraine more neutral and the result of Russian territorial gains.