Comment: I wonder why Great Britain, a former colonial power, would be so critical of Russia’s alleged desire to expand? It seems, when we do it, it’s OK but when they do it, it’s not OK. Maybe it’s time to taste your own medicine. And don’t tell me, mister Gentleman, that Great Britain has never assassinated its enemies or its own traitors. It provided shelter to Russia’s traitors (e.g., Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovskii, Sergei Skripal).
The invasion of Ukraine was provoked by NATO in many different ways but most closely by threats to Russia’s security similar to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty does not apply.
You are forgetting that British military “volunteers”, MI6, government, military industries, and banks are actively supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia and by doing so are threatening Russia’s security.
The Budapest Memorandum was signed by Russia in 1994 in the context of the 1990 promise given to Mikhail Gorbachev by James Baker and Dietrich Genscher that NATO would not move one inch to the east, if Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany.
It’s obvious that western investors have been eyeing Russia’s natural resources since Yeltsin years. Stop insulting our intelligence by lying to us.
