Energy, Russia and American Power - from the WSJ Editorial Board
"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a 3 a.m. wake-up call to President Biden and America’s liberal political class: Cease your war on U.S. energy. Europe’s climate obsessions have rendered it vulnerable to Vladimir Putin’s extortion, and the U.S. is in danger of repeating that tragic mistake"
The Maltese-flagged LNG tanker Adamastos, which is owned by Greek shipping group Capital Gas, is seen next to the terminal of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas ENAG.MC at the port of Barcelona, Feb. 25.
PHOTO: NACHO DOCE/REUTERS
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a 3 a.m. wake-up call to President Biden and America’s liberal political class: Cease your war on U.S. energy. Europe’s climate obsessions have rendered it vulnerable to Vladimir Putin’s extortion, and the U.S. is in danger of repeating that tragic mistake.
No less than Igor Sechin, CEO of Russia’s state-owned Rosneft, warned Europe last summer: “Some ecologists and politicians urge for a hasty energy transition, yet it requires an unrealistically fast launch of renewable energy sources and faces issues with storage, ensuring reliability and stability of power generation.”
Europe’s hefty renewable subsidies have rendered nuclear and coal power economically uncompetitive. Governments have also forced loads of nuclear and coal plants to retire prematurely, believing wind and solar could replace them. Hello? Renewables don’t provide reliable power 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
I interject(These people are sincerely brain dead. Even a kindergartener knows if the wind doesn't blow, or the sun does not shine, they wont work)!
Europe has been left to rely increasingly on natural gas to keep the lights on. But governments have effectively banned hydraulic fracturing, which would have let them charge their economies with domestically produced gas. Europe now imports almost all of its gas, with 40% coming from Russia.
Sluggish wind last summer sent natural gas demand and prices soaring. Some manufacturers had to shut down. Then Russia slowed gas deliveries, limiting Europe’s supply heading into the winter. Strategic advantage: Putin.
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The Biden Administration has been left scrambling to supply gas for Europe amid Kremlin threats to cut off supply. Shippers have redirected liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargos to Europe from Asia. Asian economies have shifted to burning more coal. In other words, Europe has reduced its CO2 emissions by outsourcing them.
Europe’s anti-carbon policies will have zero impact on global emissions. China has six times more coal power under development than all of Germany’s coal-fired capacity. China has promised to reduce emissions before 2030, but if you believe that, Mr. Putin has a promise of peace to sell you.
Mr. Biden ought to be exploiting America’s homegrown energy advantage. Instead he has spent a year disarming a la Europe. He has suspended leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, halted oil and gas leases on federal land, and killed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have helped Canada develop its oil sands.
Green groups and Democratic states have compounded the masochism by obstructing new pipelines, thereby limiting development of LNG export facilities, especially on the Atlantic Coast. In 2018 the Northeast had to import Russian LNG owing to a shortage of pipeline capacity. Mr. Putin can thank Andrew Cuomo, New York’s deposed Governor, for that.
The pandemic caused U.S. production to fall as demand and prices plunged. But crude prices have exceeded the break-even point for most oil plays since December 2020. U.S. oil production is nonetheless 1.5 million barrels a day below the pre-pandemic peak and 15% below the Energy Information Administration’s late 2019 forecast.
Production has increased in the Permian Basin, where break-even is about $35 per barrel. But the oil-and-gas giants have slashed investment in other plays and redirected money to subsidized renewables. Companies respond to political signals as well as prices, and they have to consider long-term risks and returns.
Democrats have promised higher taxes on oil and gas—including $100 billion in Build Back Better—as well as new regulatory burdens that will reduce their return on capital. Blackstone, the private equity firm, is black-listing new oil and gas investment, Bloomberg reports. “It’s not a moral or ethical stance,” said Blackstone’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) global head Jean Rogers. “It is reading the signals in the market.” Well, yes.
Energy CEOs aren’t conspiring to fatten profits. Prices respond to fluctuations in supply and demand as well as market expectations. Crude prices surged this past year because production hasn’t kept pace with demand. “The world risks a severe deficit of oil and gas,” Rosneft’s CEO noted last summer. “The world consumes oil, but isn’t ready to invest in it.”
He’s right—at least about the West. Russia is investing heavily to develop its oil and gas resources, especially in the Arctic. And guess who benefits from high prices? Oil at $100 a barrel funds the cruise missiles hitting Kyiv. Mr. Putin will be the victor of the self-defeating U.S. war on fossil fuels.
The casualties will be hundreds of millions of Americans, forced to pay more for energy that will become less reliable. Higher energy prices will crimp economic growth and standards of living. If Ukraine’s strategic shock doesn’t awaken Democrats to this reality, Republicans need to bang voters on the head with it every day through Nov. 8.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 4, 2022 at 9:53am
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Sen Ron Johnson: Tony Bobulinski was right - President Biden Is Dramatically, Seriously Compromised
“We don’t know all of his foreign financial entanglements. We’ve certainly shown the indication of the advanced web of them. But I’ll tell you who does know: Russian intelligence, Chinese intelligence."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/03/03/ron-johnson-president-bi...
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Comment by Willem Post on March 4, 2022 at 8:59am
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THE UKRAINE PLOT IS THICKENING WITH GERMANY AND FRANCE BARELY IN LOCKSTEP WITH US/UK-LED NATO
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...
NATO Expansions Starting in 1999
This article summarizes statements by prominent people in the UK, US, and Europe opposing NATO expansions.
Ukraine resistance, augmented with lethal NATO weapons, and thousands of highly experienced mercenaries, appears to have slowed down Russian forces.
However, Russian forces will be taking off the gloves, and do some major damage to all sorts of infrastructure; in military parlance: “softening enemy positions”
Russia will disable, with remote missiles, major government buildings, mostly at night when they are empty, and TV and radio towers, and power plants, and communication centers, and military bases. Eventually nothing will function.
There will be several million additional refugees to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, etc.
Broken Pledges and Geo-Strategic Objectives: All this would have been avoided, if the US/UK/EU/NATO had kept their promises, made in 1990, not to expand beyond East Germany
George Kennan, former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, suggested to the US government in 1990s, expanding NATO up to Russia’s borders would be the most fateful error of American policy. Regrettably, the US government turned a deaf ear to this.
Thomas Friedman, a famous US expert on international relations, wrote in a recent article that ill-considered decision by the US to expand NATO has undermined the relations with Russia and the US government in early years deserves much of the blame.
Tulsi Gabbard, former member of the US House of Representatives, said the crisis could have been ended, and the war easily avoided, if President Biden had simply promised not to accept Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO. But they chose not to do so.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_6654...
US Department of Defense 5-y Plan: Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz issued a US DoD plan for 1994 to 1999, that included the expansion of NATO, i.e., expand US geo-strategic objectives at the expense of Russia.
The US Congress approved the expansion of NATO in 1998.
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were admitted to NATO in March 1999
NATO marched towards Russian borders, saying sovereign nations can apply and NATO members will decide, somewhat similar to becoming a member of a golf, or yacht club.
That whole approach regarding the indivisibility of security in the nuclear age is totally bonkers. It ultimately led to the Ukraine situation.
At present, the US Government-US Media complex is repeating, ad nauseum: All this has nothing to do with NATO expansion, but everything to do with evil Putin, who:
1) Aims to deny Ukraine’s right to exist;
2) Aims to reestablish the greatness of Russia,
3) Hates freedom and democracy
If Russia’s attack on Ukraine has nothing to do with decades NATO expansions, how come so many western experts have spent decades warning NATO expansions would lead to an attack on Ukraine?
Spinmeister and former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, falsely claims: “This thing (i.e., NATO expansions), we were warned about for decades, was never anything anyone ever mentioned, until the end of last year” (i.e., 2021).
That statement is false, because numerous prominent people had warned against expanding NATO, because no one was threatening anybody, at that time.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/experts-warned-years-nato-ex...
PART 1
New Evidence of Pledges Not to Expand NATO
Germany's Der Spiegel Asks: "Is Vladimir Putin Right Regarding NATO Expansion?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-spiegel-asks-vladim...
The West promised not to expand NATO, beyond East Germany (the Oder River), according to a recently made-public document from the UK National Archives.
A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Moscow that NATO would not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday comes as expansion of the US-led bloc has led to a military standoff in Eastern Europe.
The minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting in Bonn between political directors of the foreign ministries of the US, UK, France, and Germany contain multiple references to “2+4” talks on German unification in which the Western officials made it “clear” to the Soviet Union that NATO would not push into territory east of Germany.
“We made it clear to the Soviet Union – in the 2+4 talks, as well as in other negotiations – that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe”,the document quotes US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada Raymond Seitz.
“NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially,” Seitz added.
A British representative also mentions the existence of a “general agreement” that membership of NATO for eastern European countries is “unacceptable.”
“We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe [sic],” said West German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. “We could not therefore offer Poland and others membership in NATO.”
SEE URL
https://www.rt.com/news/549921-nato-expansion-russia-document/
NOTE: The UK has shut down RT, because its reporting was interfering with the Western gospel
PART 2
During a 1990 meeting, US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the following:
Baker said, "If the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction."
Several years later, NATO and President Clinton began considering just such a spreading—but not without controversy.
1) American diplomat George Kennan, a towering figure in Cold War strategy, who authored the policy of Soviet “containment,” was unequivocal in his opposition.
In a 1997 essay published by The New York Times, Kennan said, "Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era…Such a decision may be expected…to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking."
2) A bipartisan group of 50 foreign policy luminaries—including Cold War hawks like Paul Nitze and Robert McNamara—signed an open letter to President Clinton opposing NATO expansion.
"Russia does not now pose a threat to its western neighbors and the nations of Central and Eastern Europe are not in danger…we believe that NATO expansion is neither necessary, nor desirable, and that this ill-conceived policy can, and should be put on hold," the group declared.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-nato-empire-building-set...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tangled-tale-nato-expansion-...
PART 3
NATO did promise Moscow it wouldn't expand, former German defense official tells RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/549961-west-nato-expand-willy-wimmer/
Here is more evidence, the 1990-promise not to expand NATO beyond the Oder (border of East Germany and Poland), was deliberately broken by the US, using NATO as its battering ram since 1994
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were admitted to NATO in March 1999
The present US/EU/NATO call for unison, is basically a call for “same-message-thinking”
It is a sign to the Media airing “at variance” thoughts are not welcome, even if such suppression would instigate a real war., which would give the US/EU the excuse to severely sanction Russia
They likely knew “stirring the bear” eventually would lead to trouble.
The US has instigated lots of wars/military actions/color-revolution since 1945
Eisenhower warned against the power of the military-industrial complex in 1960
The image shows, NATO expansions
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THE UKRAINE PLOT IS THICKENING WITH GERMANY AND FRANCE BARELY IN LOCKSTEP WITH US/UK-LED NATO
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...
I do not approve of any wars anywhere, including in the Korea, Vietnam, NATO bombing Serbia, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Libya and Ukraine
I wrote this article, because Russia-hating, extremists in the US State Department and US Congress have been using NATO to pressure first the USSR, then Russia.
They have been deluding impoverished, corrupt Ukraine with future membership in the EU and NATO, since 1990
They have been weaponizing Ukraine since the US-instigated Color Revolution/coup d’etat in 2014
Millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, mostly in East Ukraine, decided not to support the Kiev government.
The US instigated Ukraine not to implement the Minsk 2 agreements, to keep the pot boiling
The US and UK supplied huge quantities of defensive and offensive weapons, plus military training personnel to Ukraine, so it could “defend itself”
Russia made certain demands regarding:
1) NATO encroachments beyond East Germany starting in 1997 (after pledging not to do so in 1990)
2) The indivisibility of Russian and European security.
The US/UK-led NATO rejected the demands, and offered to talk about important, albeit peripheral issues.
Ukraine hot-heads floated the idea of Ukraine having an “Iron Dome” similar to Israel, and reacquiring nuclear weapons
Russia finally reacted. The result is a shooting war in Ukraine.
The EU is partially at fault, as it did not assert itself regarding the Kiev coup d’etat in 2014
The EU decided to become an aider and abettor of US policy goals regarding Ukraine in 2014, and onwards
The EU ended up being maneuvered into its present predicament, which is at variance with EU vital interests.
How Ukraine Fits into The Global Jigsaw
This article explains in great detail the ongoing control of the Euro/Asian land mass. It should be read before this article
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-ukraine-fits-global-jigsaw
Ukraine
In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said “I would like to remind you that what was called Novorossiya [New Russia] back in the tsarist days – Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Nikolayev and Odessa – were not part of Ukraine back then. These territories were given to Ukraine in the 1920s by the Soviet government. Why? God knows… Russia lost these territories for various reasons, but the people remained”.
https://www.rt.com/russia/548108-ukrainian-regions-governed-moscow/
Ukraine is a patchwork of pieces, similar to the former Yugoslavia.
Ukraine belonged, until recently, to 1) different empires, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russian Empire, and 2) several nations, such as Russia, Poland and Romania.
Ukraine’s major religions are Catholicism and Greek and Russian Orthodoxy.
Ukraine has millions of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers with deep historical, cultural and economic links with Russia.
Ukraine is a poor/unstable/divided country, with a corrupt, dysfunctional, kleptocracy economy
Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe.
Ukraine ranks 117 out of 180 countries on the world-corruption scale in 2020
Ukraine has experienced an annual average population decrease of 300,000 since 1990.
Ukraine has been a US/UK color-revolution target since 1990
- The US spent $5 billion for the color revolution, from 1990 to 2014, per Nuland, US Under Secretary of State.
- Nuland paid Neo-Nazi groups like Right Sector, and Svoboda, to help overthrow Ukraine’s government in 2014, by, among other things, sniper-shooting both sides during protests, to agitate the fervor.
- The Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, recognized as part of the Ukrainian military, has been shelling, torturing, crucifying and burning ethnic Russian people in the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk region for eight years.
Ukraine is used by the US/UK-led NATO as a way to aggravate, contain, diminish, dismantle Russia
Ukraine is acting as an eager bad boy to: 1) advance US interests, 2) “deserve” NATO and EU membership
Ukraine helps implement the foreign policy of the extremist, hate-Russia factions in the US government
Ukraine hinders implementing the Minsk Agreements at the behest of the US.
Ukraine gets free weapons and training from NATO countries to “deter” Russia
Ukraine’s actions are harming EU/Russian trade relations; the EU has nothing to gain from Ukraine.
The EU and Russia want to have normal relations
The image shows Russian language presence in brown colors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ukraine
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Col Douglas Macgregor Has a Slightly Different Take on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
My spidey senses tell me that Col Douglas Macgregor will not be welcomed back on Fox News after he gave a rather different take on what is happening amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict that does not toe the common media line. [SEGMENT HERE] Jennifer Griffin was furious.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/27/col-douglas-ma...
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The "Great Reset" has Arrived....AWAKE-NOT WOKE OIl ,NOT AIR!
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Comment by Long Islander on February 27, 2022 at 7:00pm
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PUTIN FUNDS AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/putin-funds-america-s-...John Droz, Jr: Mainstream Environmental Groups, China and Russia All Subverting U.S. Energy Policies
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/john-droz-jr-mainstrea...Russia Linked to Anti-Fracking Movement , NRCM, Sierra Club, NRDC, Sea Change Foundation, Energy Foundation, Audubon
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-linked-to-anti-...American Environmental Groups Funded by Russia
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/american-environmental...Here’s Why Russia Is Delivering Loads Of Natural Gas to Massachusetts
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/here-s-why-russia-is-d...Russia Used Social Media to Disrupt U.S. Energy Markets by Promoting Pipeline Protests, Climate Change Debate
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-used-social-med...House Probes Russian Ads Seeking to Influence Energy Markets
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/house-probes-russian-a...Allegations US Environmentalists May Have Secretly Taken Russian Cash
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/allegations-us-environ...U.S. Congressmen Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Environmental Groups
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/lawmakers-cite-evidenc...
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The US is at fault by Clinton pressing NATO to expand beyond East Germany.
Secretary of State Baker had promised Gorbachev, NATO would not expand ONE INCH beyond East Germany.
All the rest led to the present imbroglio
EXCERPT from:
THE UKRAINE PLOT IS THICKENING WITH GERMANY AND FRANCE BARELY IN LOCKSTEP WITH US/UK-LED NATO
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...
I wrote this article, because Russia-hating, extremists in the US State Department and US Congress have been using NATO to pressure first the USSR, then Russia.
They have been deluding impoverished, corrupt Ukraine with future membership in the EU and NATO, since 1990
They have been weaponizing Ukraine since the US-instigated Color Revolution/coup d’etat in 2014
Millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, mostly in East Ukraine, decided not to support the Kiev government.
The US instigated Ukraine not to implement the Minsk 2 agreements, to keep the pot boiling
The US and UK supplied huge quantities of defensive and offensive weapons, plus military training personnel to Ukraine, so it could “defend itself”
Russia made certain demands regarding:
1) NATO encroachments beyond East Germany starting in 1997 (after pledging not to do so in 1990)
2) The indivisibility of Russian and European security.
The US/UK-led NATO rejected the demands, and offered to talk about important, albeit peripheral issues.
Ukraine hot-heads floated the idea of Ukraine having an “Iron Dome” similar to Israel, and reacquiring nuclear weapons
Russia finally reacted. The result is a shooting war in Ukraine.
The EU is partially at fault, as it did not assert itself regarding the Kiev coup d’etat in 2014
The EU decided to become an aider and abettor of US policy goals regarding Ukraine in 2014, and onwards
The EU ended up being maneuvered into its present predicament, which is at variance with EU vital interests.
How Ukraine Fits into The Global Jigsaw
This article explains in great detail the ongoing control of the Euro/Asian land mass. It should be read before this article
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-ukraine-fits-global-jigsaw
EU Goals
European countries have had trade relations with Russia for more than 1000 years
France, Germany, and Russia are trying to find common ground and avoid the outbreak of hostilities.
France and Germany are aiming to deescalate the crisis atmosphere the US/UK is creating and hyping
France and Germany understand ignoring Moscow’s security interests and concerns is not realistic, if order, stability and peace is to be maintained in Europe
France and Germany are dependent on Russian energy supplies. They do not want to enforce the harsh restrictions the US/UK-combo demands.
Germany is unwilling to sacrifice its energy and industrial needs, and ENERGIEWENDE to facilitate Washington’s hostile anti-Russia policies.
France not acceding to the US/UK demands for extreme sanctions would further weaken their unwanted hold over European affairs.
France and Germany are ignoring the incessant complaints from Poland and the Baltic states, and now also Ukraine; all of them are acting as US/UK lapdogs to: 1) facilitate NATO expansions and 2) receive free weapons
Although the EU vows to respond to any Russian invasion of Ukraine to show “unity” with the US, they fully understand Moscow has no plans for any invasion.
US/UK Goals
A US/UK expeditionary army of about 20,000 was fighting with the Tsarist White Army against the Communist Red Army in 1918. That fight is still going by the extremists in the US State Department and by some Members in the US Congress
In 2022, the US/UK are continuing to pursue their uncompromising, warmongering, hate-Russia agenda; they would have no bloodshed and damage within their own territories.
The US/UK-combo goals are to pressure, contain, threaten, intimidate, and diminish the viability of Russia
The US energy sector has a further aim to make Europe dependent on US LNG, instead of 25 to 30 percent less-costly Russian pipeline gas, as part of wiping out a competitor. Much to its frustration, Russia has allied with China and India, who are eager buyers of low-cost Russian oil and gas.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/there-will-be-no-winners-latest-e...
NATO, a US/UK Handmaiden to Pressure, Contain, Diminish Russia
The US/UK combo has used NATO to advance US/UK policy goals to pressure, contain, diminish, demonize first the USSR, then Russia, which is unlike the USSR, but has been demonized just the same.
The US/UK policies do not fully serve the policy interests of the EU, which aim to gain power/influence by means of profitable international trade, instead of military muscle-flexing.
As a result, only a few NATO members fulfil their pledge to spend at least 2% of GDP on their military defense.
The US/UK has almost no trade relations with Russia
France, Germany, Italy, etc., have major trade relations with Russia that are very profitable
Sanctions on Russia, eagerly imposed by the US/UK, and reluctantly imposed by the EU, have had little adverse impact on the US/UK, but major adverse impacts on the EU.
Russia’s response to sanctions has been countersanctions, and adaptations to minimize adverse effects of sanctions, including closer military and commercial alliances with China and India.
The adaptations have improved the diversity, independence and efficiency of the Russian economy.
NATO’s military infrastructure expansions into east Europe and the Caucasus since 1990 may have increased European security, but certainly diminished Russian security, in violation of the Helsinki Agreements and the Russia-NATO Founding Act
NATO has a convenient policy, which states each sovereign country has a right to make its own security arrangements.
Russia is surrounded by sovereign countries, such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.
Does that mean all these countries are fair game for NATO-color-revolution-style regime change?
Russia Recognized Luhansk and Donetsk as Independent Republics (not just the areas held by separatists)
https://nypost.com/2022/02/21/putin-mulls-recognizing-breakaway-ukr...
Putin addressed the security guarantees that he demanded of the US and NATO in December, arguing if Ukraine is allowed to join NATO, “then the threats to our country will increase many times.”
He raised the issue again in his speech Monday, Feb 21, 2022, arguing to his fellow Russians that “if Ukraine was to join NATO, it would serve as a direct threat to the security of Russia.”
“In NATO documents, our country is officially and directly declared the main threat to North Atlantic security,” Putin added. “And Ukraine will serve as a forward springboard for the strike. If our ancestors had heard about it, they probably would simply not have believed it. And today we don’t want to believe it, but it’s true.”
NATO Expansions Starting in 1997
PART 1
Germany's Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" Over NATO Expansion
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-spiegel-asks-vladim...
The West promised no to expand NATO, beyond East Germany (the Oder River), according to a recently made-public document from the UK National Archives.
A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Moscow that NATO would not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday comes as expansion of the US-led bloc has led to a military standoff in Eastern Europe.
The minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting in Bonn between political directors of the foreign ministries of the US, UK, France, and Germany contain multiple references to “2+4” talks on German unification in which the Western officials made it “clear” to the Soviet Union that NATO would not push into territory east of Germany.
“We made it clear to the Soviet Union – in the 2+4 talks, as well as in other negotiations – that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe”,the document quotes US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada Raymond Seitz.
“NATO should not expand to the east, either officially or unofficially,” Seitz added.
A British representative also mentions the existence of a “general agreement” that membership of NATO for eastern European countries is “unacceptable.”
“We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe [sic],” said West German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. “We could not therefore offer Poland and others membership in NATO.”
SEE URL
https://www.rt.com/news/549921-nato-expansion-russia-document/
PART 2
During a 1990 meeting, US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the following:
Baker said, "If the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction."
Several years later, NATO and President Clinton began considering just such a spreading—but not without controversy.
1) American diplomat George Kennan, a towering figure in Cold War strategy, who authored the policy of Soviet “containment,” was unequivocal in his opposition.
In a 1997 essay published by The New York Times, Kennan said, "Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era…Such a decision may be expected…to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking."
2) A bipartisan group of 50 foreign policy luminaries—including Cold War hawks like Paul Nitze and Robert McNamara—signed an open letter to President Clinton opposing NATO expansion.
"Russia does not now pose a threat to its western neighbors and the nations of Central and Eastern Europe are not in danger…we believe that NATO expansion is neither necessary, nor desirable, and that this ill-conceived policy can, and should be put on hold," the group declared.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-nato-empire-building-set...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tangled-tale-nato-expansion-...
PART 3
NATO did promise Moscow it wouldn't expand, former German defense official tells RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/549961-west-nato-expand-willy-wimmer/
Here is more evidence, the 1990-promise not to expand NATO beyond the Oder (border of East Germany and Poland), was deliberately broken by the US, using NATO as its battering ram since 1994
Hungary and Poland became the first major NATO expansion countries in 1997.
The present US/EU/NATO call for unison, is basically a call for “same-message-thinking”
It is a sign to the Media airing “at variance” thoughts is not welcome, even if such suppression would instigate a real war., which would give the US/EU the excuse to severely sanction Russia
They likely knew “stirring the bear” eventually would lead to trouble.
The US has instigated lots of wars/military actions/color-revolution since 1945
Eisenhower warned against the power of the military-industrial complex in 1960
The image shows, NATO expansions
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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