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When the Soviet system was abandoned in the early 90s, Gorbachev and later Yeltsin were assured after negotiations on Berlin that NATO (the US led anti Russian containment alliance in western Europe) would not advance to the Russia's borders. The fact that they might be concerned about that would be fair enough wouldn't you think since Russia itself was not allowed to join NATO? The agreements made with Bush senior and later Clinton were reneged on such was the sense of triumphalism that infected western security services.
In 2014 there was a civil war in the Ukraine which, like Wales or Northern Ireland, was not really a "nation" in the usual sense of the concept. It was, and had been for centuries past, part of a union led by Russia just as England leads its union with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The civil war led to a right wing coup against Ukraine's pro Russian government and extremist right wing militias overran huge Russian speaking areas within the country causing the deaths of conservatively 14000 people. Two enclaves in the south east held out however and in 2015 The Minsk Agreement designated Donetsk and Lugansk, both on the Russian border, as autonomous and this arrangement was ratified by the UN Security Council. The Ukraine government then reneged on the Minsk Agreement (Uncle Sam again no doubt).
It is in this region that Russian troops are gathering at the border as it is clear that the Right Wing militias (whose origins stretch back to Nazi collaboration during WW2) are determined to annex them. That is the situation presently. They are not there to Invade the Ukraine as our media would have it.
Here in Oz our MSM including the ABC give us no context whatsoever. Media outlets are mere stenographers for British and US propaganda. Why are Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and France not involving themselves in anything like the purposely hysterical reaction of the Anglosphere?
The real, independent view of the situation can be easily found on the Internet and a good start might be Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat and also a former foreign correspondent for The Australian.
In 2014 there was a civil war in the Ukraine which, like Wales or Northern Ireland, was not really a "nation" in the usual sense of the concept. It was, and had been for centuries past, part of a union led by Russia just as England leads its union with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The civil war led to a right wing coup against Ukraine's pro Russian government and extremist right wing militias overran huge Russian speaking areas within the country causing the deaths of conservatively 14000 people. Two enclaves in the south east held out however and in 2015 The Minsk Agreement designated Donetsk and Lugansk, both on the Russian border, as autonomous and this arrangement was ratified by the UN Security Council. The Ukraine government then reneged on the Minsk Agreement (Uncle Sam again no doubt).
It is in this region that Russian troops are gathering at the border as it is clear that the Right Wing militias (whose origins stretch back to Nazi collaboration during WW2) are determined to annex them. That is the situation presently. They are not there to Invade the Ukraine as our media would have it.
Here in Oz our MSM including the ABC give us no context whatsoever. Media outlets are mere stenographers for British and US propaganda. Why are Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and France not involving themselves in anything like the purposely hysterical reaction of the Anglosphere?
The real, independent view of the situation can be easily found on the Internet and a good start might be Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat and also a former foreign correspondent for The Australian.
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