Putin: NATO Lied to us

UPDATE 9:59 AM EST -- 03-02-2022

President Vladimir Putin of Russia outlines during a speech, how NATO outright lied to Russia. NATO countries promised Russia that NATO would not move "one inch east" when Germany was being re-unified.

Instead, NATO admitted Poland, Romania and the Baltic states . . . all of which were moves to the east, towards Russia's borders.

Putin makes clear "They said one thing, but did another. As we say in our country, they cheated; they deceived us." Here's s video of him saying it today.

THAT deception on the part of NATO (read U.S., U.K. France, et. al) is the reason Russia is now moving against Ukraine. NATO (via the EU and the USA) want Ukraine to join NATO so they can put missiles on Ukraine soil, aimed at Russia.

The Russians have said for years they will not tolerate that because such missiles would have a flight time of only five minutes to Moscow. Yet the US/EU/NATO persisted and now, Ukraine is invaded to prevent them from joining NATO and prevent them from hosting NATO missiles on their soil.

This entire war was completely avoidable had the US/UK/NATO simply stopped trying to bring Ukraine in. All the death, all the destruction could have been avoided with that one, simple act. But the US/EU/NATO wouldn't stop. So now it's being stopped by force. Nice work US/UK/NATO.

What would any country do if a neighboring hostile country were to act in the same fashion?

Think JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and you will have your answer.