US trying to draw Russia into war, Putin says

[ghazi52]

US trying to draw Russia into war, Putin says​

BBC

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Mr Putin was speaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine.

He said America's goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.

Mr Putin also said the US was ignoring Russia's concerns about the expansion of Nato, the Western military alliance which Ukraine is seeking to join.

The US and its allies accuse Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted that the US was "committed to preventing a conflict that is in no one's interest".

Meanwhile, Spanish newspaper El Pais has released what it says are confidential documents the US and Nato sent to Russia last week - including offers of talks on cutting back on nuclear weaponry and trust-building measures in exchange for reducing tensions over Ukraine.

A Nato official told the BBC the alliance never comments on alleged leaks. President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was aware of the report, but that they did not publish it and did not want to comment on it, according to AFP news agency.

In recent weeks Russia has moved about 100,000 troops - equipped with everything from tanks and artillery to ammunition and air power - to Ukraine's border.

It comes eight years after the country annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.

Moscow in turn accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement an international deal to restore peace to the east, where at least 14,000 people have been killed and Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky however warned on Tuesday that a Russian invasion would "not be a war between Ukraine and Russia - this would be a war in Europe, a full-scale one".

 

[Falconless]

You don’t send 200,000 troops and tanks to a border of a country and then accuse the other for trying to push you towards a war.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

You don’t send 200,000 troops and tanks to a border of a country and then accuse the other for trying to push you towards a war.

NATO forces were already in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria even before Russia moved a single soldier.

 

[nang2]

Not just US, but UK, too. France and Germany are reluctant. Is this another Rothschild play to profit from wars?

 

[Falconless]

NATO forces were already in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria even before Russia moved a single soldier.

Sovereign nations have a right to pick and chose their allies. Russia wants to restore it’s Soviet era colonial empire.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Sovereign nations have a right to pick and chose their allies. Russia wants to restore it’s Soviet era colonial empire.

You mean break promises and gang up on a single nation?

 

[Falconless]

You mean break promises and gang up on a single nation?

A single nation that wants to annex parts of your country, yes.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Not just US, but UK, too. France and Germany are reluctant. Is this another Rothschild play to profit from wars?

The original NATO nations like Germany & France do not want to pick a fight with Russia.

US, UK along with Former Warsaw pact nations (Poland, Bulgaria, Romania), Former Soviet nations (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and potential new NATO nations (Sweden, Finland, Georgia, Ukraine) want to pick a fight with Russia.

 

[Falconless]

US, UK along with Former Warsaw pact nations (Poland, Bulgaria, Romania), Former Soviet nations (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and potential new NATO nations (Sweden, Finland, Georgia, Ukraine) want to pick a fight with Russia.

All have issues with Russian insurgents, plus one of them has parts of their country stolen by the Russians. Any dignified nation would want to fight back to keep their integrity. Unlike India.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

A single nation that wants to annex parts of your country, yes.

All have issues with Russian insurgents, plus one of them has parts of their country stolen by the Russians. Any dignified nation would want to fight back to keep their integrity. Unlike India.

You should understand Russia never objects to countries joining EU or Countries investing in their military. That is their sovereign right. The issue is with they joining a military alliance against Russia which was illegal.

 

[Falconless]

You should understand Russia never objects to countries joining EU or Countries investing in their military. That is their sovereign right. The issue is with they joining a military alliance against Russia which was illegal.

No it’s not, and I’d be an idiot not to ensure my security by joining NATO and it’s nuclear umbrella if I was a nation sitting on Russia’s border.

 

[nang2]

No it’s not, and I’d be an idiot not to ensure my security by joining NATO and it’s nuclear umbrella if I was a nation sitting on Russia’s border.

In this regard, Finland is a smart player.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

No it’s not, and I’d be an idiot not to ensure my security by joining NATO and it’s nuclear umbrella if I was a nation sitting on Russia’s border.

LOL Russia was never a threat until they made it so. US/NATO and Soviet Union/Russia agreed not to extend NATO beyond East Germany but NATO broke the promise.

You can hear it here from the former US Ambassador to Soviet Union/Russia during that period - Jack F. Matlock | Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991

 

[maverick1977]

You don’t send 200,000 troops and tanks to a border of a country and then accuse the other for trying to push you towards a war.

No the point is by pushing NATO east wards, US is drawing Russia to a war.

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

In this regard, Finland is a smart player.

Finland was part of Russia until 1917 Russian Revolution. There was agreement that Finland will stay neutral for gaining sovereignty. Finland acts as a buffer state between Russia and Sweden.