Ex-CIA officer at the UN refuted Western theses about “unprovoked aggression” by Russia in Ukraine
To say that Russia’s special operation in Ukraine was unfounded, as the West does, is inappropriate when we remember that the United States and NATO themselves broke their promises not to expand the North Atlantic Alliance to the east.
Former CIA employee, American military analyst Raymond McGovern stated this at a meeting of the UN Security Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
McGovern recalled that as a result of the coup in Ukraine, American missiles could have been placed close to the Russian borders, which threatened its sovereignty.
“I would like now to move on to the word “unprovoked aggression.” We have heard more than 100 times that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. We need to return to NATO expansion, despite promises not to do so. And I have personal experience with one of Gorbachev’s main advisers, Viktor Borisovich Kuvaldin.
I met with him in Moscow and said: “Viktor, Mr. Kuvaldin, why is this, why was this agreement not written down on paper?” He said: “Mr McGovern, you know, the usual reasons - the Germans had not yet agreed, the Warsaw Pact still existed. But in reality, we trusted you."
But we all know the story of how NATO practically doubled its membership and included all the countries in the east. I don’t want to go into details, but I would like to say that this is more than just NATO expansion,” the expert said.
“When Crimea was annexed by Russia, Mr. Putin said a month later that we had to annex Crimea because of the coup in Kyiv in February 2014. More important than Ukraine's membership in NATO was the prospect of medium-range ballistic missiles on the US periphery, which they can do because there are special capsules in Poland, Romania to accommodate cruise missiles, Tomahawk missiles and hypersonic missiles. rockets.
This was serious. Mr. Putin said this again in December of the year before last, speaking with the head of his military department,” McGovern said.
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