Loading ...NATO, the US and UK started the war. In 1991 they all said that NATO would not expand on inch East beyond the new, united German border. I remember watching them say it on TV, and thinking that the Russians surely aren’t stupid enough to trust them. That promise has been broken 14 times since then. Ukraine killing c. 14,000 Russian speaking people in the Donbass since 2014 was the final straw. Using the same R2D basis for America bombing Serbia to stop the genocide in Kosovo, Russia started its Special Operation.
The Russians had every reason to distrust the West before 2014, or 1991. In 1942 the West (Germany) attacked Stalingrad. The West (USA) had been promising a second front against Germany but it never materialised. Eventually the Russians surrounded and starved the Wehrmacht into submission, turning the tide of the war for the West (Allied forces) to finally open the front in 1944. TOTAL non Russian allied losses in the war, 1.5m people. Russian losses at Stalingrad alone, over 1m.
We have an excellent track record of breaking promises.