Moscow is Alleged to Have Demanded US-NATO Withdraw Forces From Eastern Europe In Riyadh Talks

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Sources in Romania's government revealed the request, which was rejected by the team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

But NATO countries along the alliance's so-called Eastern flank are still worried: "Cristian Diaconescu, the Romanian president’s chief of staff and adviser for defense and national security, said on Wednesday that the US delegation had rejected Moscow’s demand, but that there were no guarantees that Washington would not eventually make this concession to Vladimir Putin,"

NOTE: Russia has rejected a senior Romanian official’s claim that Russia demanded NATO withdraws from Eastern Europe. 

Russia claims such "news balloons" are floated by the UK-government-controlled Financial Times, for nefarious purposes

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Of course, NATO militarization right to up Russia's doorstep, a historic trend which reaches back to 1990s, when the West promised Gorbachev "not one inch beyond East Germany", remains a key Kremlin justification for the Ukraine war.

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Given this week's anti-Zelensky rhetoric coming out of the US administration, the European allies are worried Trump will give away more (after already declaring that Ukraine won't become a NATO member).

"As far as I understand, the situation can change from hour to hour or from day to day," Diaconescu told Antena3 television, in a reference to US President Donald Trump’s scathing criticism of the Ukrainian leader and his concessions made to Russia even before talks began.

Diaconescu stressed that the Russian delegation to the talks in Riyadh earlier this week "failed to convince the Americans" on a NATO withdrawal and that further visits by the leaders of the UK and France to Washington next week would seek to persuade Trump not to give in to this demand.

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No real details on specifically what the Russians requested as a condition for fully restoring and improving US relations has been revealed by the US side.

However, staff at each of their respective embassies are being restored.

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"The Secretary of State sought to reassure nervous European allies that the talks [in Riyadh] did not represent an abrupt departure from American policies, as many feared."

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In December 2022, just before Russian forces poured across the Ukraine border later in February, President Putin told a news conference,

"You promised us in the 1990s NATO would not move an inch to the East. You cheated us shamelessly."

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But the Kremlin is signaling it believes the Trump White House understands Russia's positions well.

FM Sergey Lavrov had also hailed the Riyadh meeting as "very useful" and that talks will continue.

"I have every reason to believe that the American side understands our position," Lavrov had said.

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UKRAINE A GEO-POLITICAL PAWN OF US/UK/NATO TO WEAKEN RUSSIA

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...

US-led NATO expanded beyond East Germany to the borders of Russia, after promising Gorbachev not to expand by "one inch" beyond East Germany in 1990.

The US fomented, organized, and financed (spent at least $5 billion from 1990 to 2014, per Victoria Nuland), the illegal Coup d'Etat in Kiev in 2014, which deposed a legally elected President and left over 200 people dead and severely wounded.

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From 2014 to February 2022, the Kiev government armed forces, UAF, with NATO arms, decided to attack, kill and severely wound tens of thousands of its own citizens in East Ukraine over an eight-year period, because those citizens did not agree with the US-installed clique in Kiev in 2014.

The UN/EU/US/UK/NATO encouraged it by staying silent, or saying "Ukraine has a right to defend itself".

Those citizens are ethnic Russians, who had been living there for about 400 years.

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Ukraine ignored the Minsk Agreements, with silent approval of Merkel and Sarkozy/Hollande, the “guarantors”, and vocal approval of Poroshenko and Zelinsky

Their aim was to give Ukraine time to build its armed forces with NATO weapons.

Those Agreements gave limited autonomy to East Ukraine, while remaining part of UKRAINE

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In early February 2022, the Ukraine Armed Forces, UAF, increased its long distance shelling of East Ukraine by a factor of 3 to 5, likely a prelude to an assault on the East.

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On February 22, 2022, Russia said "enough is enough", and finally invaded Ukraine

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During March, 2022, a Russia-Ukraine agreement was negotiated and initialed in Turkye, but PM Johnson was dispatched by the US to Kiev, to tell Zelensky to keep on fighting to “weaken Russia”.

Former TV personality and Comedian Zelensky agreed to fight a war against a much larger opponent, a war Ukraine could never win.

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The forces of Russo-phobia, propagated by the subsidized, government-controlled, Corporate Media in the US and EU, were working overtime to keep the US/EU populations in Hate-Russia mode, while falsely claiming Ukraine was "winning".

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After 3 years of fighting, the East of Ukraine is in total ruins.

A total of about 2 million dead and seriously wounded.

Russia annexed over 20% of Ukraine, and its real GDP is growing at 3.5 to 4.0 %/y, far in excess of the US and the EU, despite sanctions.

That GDP, thanks to sanctions, includes more and more products designed, tested and manufactured within Russia

Russia has annexed 4 provinces where the people voted by 90% or more, to be part of Russia, as they did in Crimea by over 96% in 2014.

After the Ukraine conflict is settled, the Euro elites, after decades of tying the economy in knots, and spouting hateful Russo-phobia to unify/rally/control/brainwash the population, will need to shift to Russo-neutral, if they want to do business with Russia, all while justifying spending much more on all sorts of NATO weapons.

Quite a hat trick!