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11. “Of concern to the Russians have been NATO’s operations outside of NATO countries. … NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, where NATO not only intervened in the affairs of a non-NATO country, … and did so without UN Security Council approval.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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10. “The issue that Russia saw in NATO was not just an expanding military alliance, but one that had shifted gears to transforming and proactively intervening in global affairs. …its mission shifted to democracy promotion.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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9. “Russia views Ukraine, a large country to which it has long-running cultural and historical ties, as a particularly critical buffer state for protecting its capital.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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8. “for decades the Russian political establishment … objected to NATO expansion and “warned that if this went as far as taking in Georgia and Ukraine, then there would be confrontation and strong likelihood of war.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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7. “U.S. Sec of State assured Soviet leader Gorbachev that the NATO alliance would move “not one inch eastward” in exchange for this agreement … NATO has expanded eastward over the years to include many more countries, all the way up to Russia’s borders.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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6. “In 1990, the West led the Soviets to believe NATO would not expand further eastward across Europe in exchange for Germany reunification and the agreement that the new Germany would be a NATO member …” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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5. “The U.S. must do everything it can do to end this war — which … could quite easily spiral into a nuclear-armed confrontation … — as swiftly as possible, including negotiating on Ukraine's NATO status and possible neutrality …” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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4. “The West didn't want to set limits on NATO's enlargement and influence or lose face. So what it did was gamble.” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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3. “by dangling … possibility of NATO membership for years but never fulfilling it, NATO created a scenario that emboldened Ukraine to act tough and buck Russia — without any intention of … defending Ukraine … if Moscow decided Ukraine had gone too far. https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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2. “Analysts say it’s widely known that Ukraine had no prospect of entering NATO for many years, possibly decades, because of its need for major democracy and anti-corruption reforms …” https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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1. On MSNBC: “Ukrainians might be paying with their lives for the United States’ reckless flirtation with Ukraine as a future NATO member without ever committing to its defense.” Source: https://t.co/cnNjag9gwA — PolitiTweet.org

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@JA_Loans https://t.co/UjZEcEHdk0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Not only did Rand Corp identify Ukraine as “Russian’s greatest point of external vulnerability,” they stated: “Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.” And then, of course, the CIA did just that. https://t.co/UjZEcEHdk0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Rand Corp in 2019 on Ways to Overextend and Unbalance Russia. Go ahead, read it. Especially the tactic of arming Ukraine, but “doing so carefully” due to the risk of provoking war between Ukraine and Russia. They say lethal aid to Ukraine is high risk. https://t.co/5TPpPH7ZfH — PolitiTweet.org

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“The top U.S. military adviser to President Biden inspected the weapons transfer operation … meeting with troops and personnel from 22 countries who were working around the clock to unload the armaments for transport by land to the Ukrainian forces.” https://t.co/xJuBgjNOKe — PolitiTweet.org

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👀 — PolitiTweet.org

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Having evidentiary standards and identifying when other reporters don’t only helps the enemy, eh? — PolitiTweet.org

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@churchladysays @RMConservative How so? — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s a war zone. Is the Russian military brutal enough to fire on reporters? Clearly. Could the Ukrainians do that? Clearly. What about either military or an armed civilian militia getting confused? Yes, possible. We don’t know, yet we assert speculation as fact a lot right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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This shows how unverified info gets spread as fact. They were in a Ukrainian-controlled region and got fired upon. The reporters involved say Ukrainian authorities blamed a “saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.” Other reporters then report as fact that it was Russians. Maybe. — PolitiTweet.org

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This shows how unverified info gets spread as fact. They were in a Ukrainian-controlled region and got fired upon. The reporters involved say Ukrainian authorities blamed a “saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.” Other reporters then report as fact that it Russians. Maybe. — PolitiTweet.org

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@charlesw0781 I didn’t even bring up the possible nuke aspect — PolitiTweet.org

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But NATO directly fighting Russia to stop that will result in even more innocent children dying. Now what? — PolitiTweet.org

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@CurtisHouck @SkyNews How do we know that was Russians firing on them? I’m sure Russians would, but how do we know that fact? — PolitiTweet.org

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This video is intense. Glad they’re ok. — PolitiTweet.org

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Soooo, making it likely we’ll have millions die in nuclear conflict or at least having such bombings occur across all of Europe is OK. Got it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Reuters: NATO rejects Ukraine's demand for No-fly zones, saying it is 'not part of this' war https://t.co/HhPKJoKDLJ https://t.co/e4lW1… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAgeofShoddy You’re right — PolitiTweet.org

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@bearefranklin If they cared about suffering as strongly as they claim, they would know. Just as I know. — PolitiTweet.org