#11. Ukraine and NATO

Latest update: February 21, 2025

INDEX:

  1. NATO’S GROWTH — AND RUSSIA’S ISOLATION – SINCE 1990 – TWO MAPS
  2. NATO EXPANSION 1948 – 2023
  3. STOLTENBERG, NATO, USA, UKRAINE, JOIN THE FAR RIGHT IN CANADA, OCTOBER 5, 2021
  4. STOLTENBERG ADMITS NATO PROVOKED THE ESCALATION OF THE UKRAINE RUSSIA WAR
  5. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHRÖDER: “UKRAINIANS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO AGREE TO PEACE”
  6. THE TALKS THAT COULD HAVE ENDED THE WAR IN UKRAINE
  7. NORDSTREAM, THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON EUROPE’S ECONOMY
  8. QUESTIONING NATO: NORDSTREAM TERRORIST ATTACK ON EUROPE’S ECONOMY
  9. QUESTIONUNG NATO: NATO CONTINUES PROVOKING MORE ESCALATION OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE (added 24 April 2024)
  10. JEFFREY SACHS: UKRAINE AND NATO
  11. NATO MEMBERSHIP WAS DEEPLY UNPOPULAR AMONG UKRAINIANS
  12. MAP: BANDERA VERSUS LENIN MONUMENTS IN UKRAINE (added April 24, 2024)
  13. ZELENSKY’S ADVISOR, ALEXEY ARESTOVICH, IN 2019
  14. GLENN DIESEN: DO THE EU AND NATO THREATEN RUSSIAN SECURITY?
  15. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JENS STOLTENBERG SELLING THE PROXY WAR
  16. NATO SECREATRY GENERAL JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER ABOUT PUTIN’S RED LINE (2008)
  17. FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF NATO, ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN: “WE ALREADY DECIDED IN 2008 THAT UKRAINE WILL JOIN NATO”
  18. THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE 2008: PUTIN WARNS OVER NATO EXPANSION (added 24 April 2024)
  19. PEPE ESCOBAR: EURASIA VS. NATOSTAN IS THE DEFINING STRUGGLE OF OUR TIME
  20. GLENN DIESEN: THE UKRAINE WAR AND THE EURASIAN WORLD ORDER
  21. NATO – VIDEO COLLECTION
  22. ISW: WEBSITE of the INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF WAR / KAROLINA HIRD / NATO CHAIR ROB BAUER
  23. THE NATO DECLARATION AND THE DEADLY STRATEGY OF NEOCONSERVATISM / JEFFREY SACHS
  24. CYBERATTACKS: A NEW FALSE FLAG FRONTIER – KIT KLARENBERG – SUBSTACK

1. NATO’S GROWTH — AND RUSSIA’S ISOLATION – SINCE 1990 – TWO MAPS

2. NATO EXPANSION 1948 – 2023

Update February 21, 2025: The video published here is not longer available on YouTube because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.

The video was copied by Multerland in 2024, and now uploaded in Multerland.

March 2024:


3. STOLTENBERG, NATO, USA, UKRAINE, JOIN THE FAR RIGHT IN CANADA, OCTOBER 5, 2021

Left to right: Mike Pompeo (U.S. Secretary of State); Chrystia Freeland (then-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada); Pavlo Klimkin (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine); NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. (Image: NATO/Flickr)

Article: Canada’s support for the far-right abroad
https://rabble.ca/politics/world-politics/canadas-support-for-the-far-right-abroad/
Published: October 5, 2021
By: Ives Engler
In: Rabble / Canada


4. STOLTENBERG ADMITS NATO PROVOKED THE ESCALATION OF THE UKRAINE RUSSIA WAR

-See the two maps above, showing the isolation of Russia, that started in 1990.


5. FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR SCHRÖDER: “UKRAINIANS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO AGREE TO PEACE”


6. THE TALKS THAT COULD HAVE ENDED THE WAR IN UKRAINE IN 2022

To be able to read the complete texts of the 2 post: click the post / show more


7. NORDSTREAM, THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON EUROPE’S ECONOMY

UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/17/uk-insurers-refuse-pay-nord-stream/
Published: April 17, 2024
In: The Grayzone
By: Wyatt Reed


8. QUESTIONING NATO: NORDSTREAM TERRORIST ATTACK ON EUROPE’S ECONOMY

Video short: https://youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM?si=O9jZ_G0YDclIFS74

“We can make an end to Nordstream”: read more about H.A.A.R.P. alike electromagnetic war weapons, able to penetrate deep inside the earth, seas and oceans, to destroy also pipelines: HAARP, JRO, EISCAT and SURA


9. QUESTIONUNG NATO: NATO CONTINUES PROVOKING MORE ESCALATION OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE (added 24 April 2024)


10. JEFFREY SACHS: UKRAINE AND NATO

See also:
Click picture to watch. See also article: Biden has destroyed Ukraine

11. NATO MEMBERSHIP WAS DEEPLY UNPOPULAR AMONG UKRAINIANS

On April 5, 2024, Professor Glenn Diesen shared on X: The polling below reveals NATO membership was deeply unpopular among Ukrainians even AFTER Russia took back Crimea: – Between 1991 and 2014 (before the coup), all polls revealed only 20% of Ukrainians wanted to join NATO, despite fierce efforts by the US.

GALLUP, Broadcasting Board of Governors Research Series [2014]: https://www.usagm.gov/wp-content/media/2014/06/Ukraine-slide-deck.pdf

Comment on this map by professor Glenn Diesen, published April 26, 2024:

In my previous post, there are several requests for evidence that only a small minority of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership between 1991 and 2014 (when the US/NATO sought to pull Ukraine into the military bloc):

  • Every since poll from Ukraine and abroad confirmed this.
  • NATO reported in 2011 that its expansionism was resisted by the Ukrainian government and its people: “The greatest challenge for Ukrainian-NATO relations lies in the perception of NATO among the Ukrainian people. NATO membership is not widely supported in the country, with some polls suggesting that popular support of it is less than 20%”. https://nato-pa.int/document/2011-172-cdsdg-11-e-rev1-ukraine-malan-report…
  • Even after Russia seized Crimea (in response to the US-backed coup), the US own polls demonstrated that still only a minority of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership. https://usagm.gov/wp-content/media/2014/06/Ukraine-slide-deck.pdf…
  • US Ambassador (now CIA Director) William Burn cautioned that NATO expansionism would trigger a Civil War exactly because it did not have support in the public (and that Russia would reluctantly invade). https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html…
  • There is nothing controversial about the statement that NATO expansionism was pushed against the will of the Ukrainians, with our full awareness of the likely devastating consequences.
  • The only reason this is not common knowledge is because the media does not report on it, as there is full conformity to the war narrative that we are merely “helping” Ukraine. Even mentioning verifiable facts results in attacks and cancellation efforts from the compliant media as inconvenient facts are met with accusations of “legitimising” the Russian invasion
  • On the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, a majority of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9-11 attacks. This would not have been possible without a dishonest and manipulative media. In our current Ukraine War, the war enthusiasts in media play an equally manipulative role in ensuring public support for the notion that “weapons are the path to peace” and diplomacy is not possible. American leaders and the NATO Secretary General keep openly making statements that this war is a great opportunity to weaken a strategic adversary without losing their own soldiers, and the media assists in laundering this as a virtuous “pro-Ukrainian” stance.

12. MAP: BANDERA VERSUS LENIN MONUMENTS IN UKRAINE

Map by Harvard University which shows the ratio of Bandera (Ukrainian fascist) vs Lenin monuments in Ukraine. Compare the map above, chapter 11, that shows which part of Ukraine was the most pro NATO, with this one:


13. ZELENSKY’S ADVISOR, ALEXEY ARESTOVICH, IN 2019

Zelensky’s advisor, Alexey Arestovich, argued in 2019: – Attempting to join NATO will pressure Russia to invade – “Our price for joining NATO is a big war with Russia” – Predicting the war would start between 2020-22, with remarkable details


14. GLENN DIESEN: DO THE EU AND NATO THREATEN RUSSIAN SECURITY? (BOOK)

The book [2015] explores the rise of these exclusive ’inter-democratic’ security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing effects on relations with Russia. By: Glenn Diesen https://www.routledge.com/EU-and-NATO-Relations-with-Russia-After-the-Collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union/Diesen/p/book/9781138063273 /

Preview: https://www.book2look.com/embed/9781317140528

Description

Do the EU and NATO threaten Russian security? The book explores the rise of these exclusive ’inter-democratic’ security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing effects on relations with Russia. Two competing theories are tested to explore whether these institutions aggravate or mitigate the security dilemma with Russia. These institutions can be theorised to promote security as a positive-sum game through European integration and democracy promotion, or pursue collective hegemony with ideologically uncompromising bloc-politics. Glenn Diesen argues that a European security architecture that demotes the largest state on the continent to an object of security inevitably results in ’European integration’ becoming a zero-sum geopolitical project that has set the West on a collision course with Russia.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction;
  • Chapter 2 Theoretical Comparison;
  • Chapter 3 Research Design;
  • Chapter 4 Case Study I;
  • Chapter 5 Case Study II;
  • Chapter 6; Conclusion;

Critics reviews

’In this innovative, theoretically grounded and systematic study, Glenn Diesen shows how the attempts by the EU and NATO to construct a security community in Europe have exacerbated the security dilemma with Russia. The arguments in this fine book are crucial to our understanding of the international relations of the European continent since the collapse of the Soviet Union.’ Graeme Gill, The University of Sydney, Australia ’In the light of the Ukraine crisis and the Russian annexation of Crimea, this is a timely and important book. Glenn Diesen provides a well-argued and theoretically rich critique of Western policy towards Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union. His analysis challenges many of the mainstream liberal assumptions that have shaped relations between Europe and Russia, and offers a fresh interpretation of the steady deterioration in relations between the two sides. This is a book that deserves to be widely read and discussed.’ Adrian Hyde-Price, Gothenburg University, Sweden


15. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL SELLING THE PROXY WAR


16. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER ABOUT PUTIN’S RED LINE (2008)

Watch on Rumble: here


17. FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF NATO, ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN: “WE ALREADY DECIDED IN 2008 THAT UKRAINE WILL JOIN NATO”


18. THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE 2008: PUTIN WARNS NATO OVER EXPANSION

This article is more than 16 years old
Putin warns NATO over expansion
Published: Fri 4 Apr 2008
In: The Guardian
By: Anil Dawar

PDF


19. PEPE ESCOBAR: EURASIA VS. NATOSTAN IS THE DEFINING STRUGGLE OF OUR TIME

In this interview Kevork Almassian, award-winning independent journalist and political scientist, born in Syria and living in Berlin, Germany, discusses with Pepe Escobar the book: Eurasia versus NATOstan, published on April 2, 2024. Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst.


20. GLENN DIESEN: THE UKRAINE WAR AND THE EURASIAN WORLD ORDER (BOOK)

Five hundred years of Western hegemony has ended, while the global majority’s aspiration for a world order based on multipolarity and sovereign equality is rising. This incisive book addresses the demise of liberal hegemony, though pointing out that a multipolar Westphalian world order has not yet taken shape, leaving the world in a period of interregnum. A legal vacuum has emerged, in which the conflicting sides are competing to define the future order.

NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the collective hegemony of the West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and set Europe on the path to war without the possibility of a course correction. Ukraine as a divided country in a divided Europe has been a crucial pawn in the great power competition between NATO and Russia for the past three decades.

The war in Ukraine is a symptom of the collapsing world order. The war revealed the dysfunction of liberal hegemony in terms of both power and legitimacy, and it sparked a proxy war between the West and Russia instead of ensuring peace, the source of its legitimacy.
The proxy war, unprecedented sanctions, and efforts to isolate Russia in the wider world contributed to the demise of liberal hegemony as opposed to its revival. Much of the world responded to the war by intensifying their transition to a Eurasian world order that rejects hegemony and liberal universalism. The economic architecture is being reorganised as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. Universalism based on Western values is replaced by civilisational distinctiveness, sovereign inequality is swapped with sovereign equality, socialising inferiors is replaced by negotiations, and the rules-based international order is discarded in favour of international law. A Westphalian world order is reasserting itself, although with Eurasian characteristics.

The West’s defeat of Russia would restore the unipolar world order while a Russian victory would cement a multipolar one. The international system is now at its most dangerous as the prospect of compromise is absent, meaning the winner will take all. Both NATO under US direction and Russia are therefore prepared to take great risks and escalate, making nuclear wan increasingly likely.

English:
The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order
Published: February 15, 2024
https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-War-Eurasian-World-Order/dp/1949762955

Nederlands:
De oorlog in Oekraïne en de Euraziatische wereldorde
https://deblauwetijger.com/product/glenn-diesen-de-oorlog-in-oekraine-en-de-euraziatische-wereldorde/


21. NATO – VIDEO COLLECTION

In the upper right corner of the video-playlist below, you can see three horizontal lines and an arrow. Click to see the entire playlist.


22. THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR / KAROLINA HIRD / ROB BAUER (NATO CHAIR)

Search results for Karolina Hird, on the website of the ISW: 964 results.

From the website: Karolina Hird is a Russia Deputy Team Lead and Analyst and Evans Hanson Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War. Karolina is a senior member of the team that produces the daily Russian Campaign Assessments since spring 2022. Karolina particularly focuses on Russian operational campaign design and the humanitarian aspects of the war in Ukraine, particularly the issue of forced deportations and adoption of Ukrainian children. Karolina has been quoted in Reuters, The Telegraph, NPR, The Daily Beast, Task and Purpose, Newsweek, Voice of America, and others. Karolina regularly briefs senior military and political decision-makers. Karolina received a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, where she focused on international security, international law, and gender analysis.

[Note by admin: the content of the quoted text copied from her profile page on ISW, is not according to the information that is provided by independent journalists. This means that the quoted text has to be read as misinformation. Important detail: Karolina Hird is extremely anti-Putin, anti-Russia.]

In this article, published by ISW, also chair of NATO Rob Bauer‘s words, are to be found. He is clearly informed by Karolina Hird, which means that he is misinformed about the real situation in Ukraine. In his opening speech on May 16, 2024, in a NATO meeting with the Chiefs of Defence, in Brussels, he mentions Kiev as the source of his information, which means that he fully trusts Zelensky, who is proven not reliable. Altogether this could be the reason why Rob Bauer showed that he was severe misinformed and was sharing misinformation with the Chiefs of Defence. That could be the reason of the NATO arrogance, it’s bluffing about Russia, and making NATO alliances believe that they have a chance against Russia. His misinformation is provoking WWIII.


23. THE NATO DECLARATION [10 JULY 2024] AND THE DEADLY STRATEGY OF NEOCONSERVATISM / JEFFREY SACHS

For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nato-neoconservatism-empire
Published: July 13, 2024
By: Jeffrey Sachs
In: Common Dreams

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a meeting of the heads of state of the North Atlantic Council at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 10, 2024 in Washington, DC.
 (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

24. CYBERATTACKS: A NEW FALSE FLAG FRONTIER – KIT KLARENBERG


#8. Norway: cancellation and censorship of science

Introduction

On February 14, 2024, Professor Glenn Diesen[1][2][3][4] published several posts[1][2][3][4] on X in which he reports on the cancel and censorship culture, as practiced by the Norwegian Aage Borchgrevink[1]. Although Borchgrevink is listed on various websites and Wikipedia pages as a human rights activist, works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and is chairman of the Norwegian NFFO, the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, he is not who he pretends to be.
What Glenn Diesen describes in the following articles, posted on X, corresponds with the experiences so many others and also I had with Aage Borchgrevink on X: there is zero willingness to be informed about the scientific facts regarding political issues. He distorts facts, creates misinformation, and is a USA propaganda activist, not a human rights activist. The same applies to the Helsinki Committee, and the NFFO.

1. The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFFO)

…….. announced that they cancelled their participation as a co-organiser for a public debate about the conflict in the Middle East because I am one of the speakers. I wear this as a badge of honour. One of Norway’s leading propagandists who has been writing hit-pieces about me for years in the media just happens to be a chairman of NFFO who announced the cancellation. So, the person behind the organisation that cancelled their participation, because I am allegedly controversial, is the same person who has been working tirelessly to depict me as controversial to have me fired as a professor from the university. These are two cheeks of the same arse, but this is conveniently omitted by those reporting on this story.

I do not use the term “propagandist” lightly. This propagandist works for the Helsinki Committee, a “human rights organisation” financed by the CIA-cutout National Endowment for Democracy (NED). When Reagan established NED as an extension of the CIA in 1983, it was to manipulate civil society in other countries (see tweet below). NED and its proxies only focus on human rights in adversarial states and thus sell all great power conflicts as a fight between democracy and authoritarianism (good vs evil), while claiming the source credibility of a “human rights organisation” that enables them to dismiss critics as enemies of freedom. When this Norwegian “human rights activist” does not slander me in the media and shames my university for permitting academic freedom, he is campaigning against Julian Assange and other critics of the US.

This is not simply an issue to a silly propagandist discrediting NFFO. Censorship, cancellations and the corruption of institutions have detrimental effects on society. After a decade of war in Ukraine, Norwegians are still not exposed to any arguments and evidence that deviate from NATO’s narrative. Norway will give the US sovereign control over 15 military bases on its soil to confront Russia in the Arctic and Norway has become one of the most eager weapon suppliers in the Ukrainian proxy war – with almost no public debate about the impact on our security as only one argument is permitted and dissent comes with great social cost. Anyone attempting to explain the arguments of the opposing side can be denounced for “legitimising” the opponent and thus smeared as a “Putinist”.

Our discourse subsequently consists of clichés and slogans without substance, simplified and dumbed down to a narrative of goodies versus baddies in which ever-more weapons are the path to peace, diplomacy and negotiations are dangerous, and censorship is vital to protect our democracy.

All is not well with freedom of speech and academic freedom in this country. I have published 11 academic books, which have been translated into several languages. Yet, an organisation devoted to academic writing cancelled their participation as a co-organiser because a ridiculous NED-financed “human rights activist” has accused me of working for Russia. Also, the debate they withdrew support from is not even about Russia, but the Middle East…

2. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee

…….. should be designated as a propaganda organisation due to its funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): – Washington Post writes that NED has been the “sugar daddy of overt operations” and “what used to be called ‘propaganda’ and can now simply be called ‘information'”. – NED was inaugurated by President Reagan to conceal influence operations by US intelligence as work on democracy and human rights. – Documents released by the Reagan presidential library reveal that NED cooperated closely with CIA propaganda initiatives. – Allen Weinstein, a cofounder of NED, acknowledged: “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”. – Philip Agee, a CIA whistle-blower, explained that NED was established as a “propaganda and inducement program” to subvert foreign nations and style it as a democracy promotion initiatives.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee wrote a 7-page long article about me (plus front page), in which they pressured the university to terminate my employment as I allegedly violate international law by supporting Russian war propaganda. – This is a strange allegation as I have been very openly opposed to the war from day one, but my crime as a professor of Russian politics has been to engage with Russian media. And this is allegedly in breach of international law. – The article makes no sense and was published in a newspaper where the author’s wife is an editor, but it is nonetheless cited in numerous efforts to censor and cancel. – It is beyond absurd that government-funded “non-governmental organisations” masquerading as “human rights organisations” can routinely attack academic freedoms and manipulate civil society in our country to ensure there is only one acceptable narrativ

3. Tweets by Aage Borchgrevink

Notice how in all these tweets (and all his articles), he attempts to shame the university into cancelling dissent. Is this normal for a state-financed “human rights activist” and a chairman of an organisation for authors? Click picture to enlarge:

4. Borchgrevink’s cancellation

He is very proud to censor and cancel. Unworthy of an open society. Click picture to enlarge.

5. Professor Glenn Diesen about the Tucker Carlsen interview with Vladimir Putin

The subjects “propaganda“, “freedom of speech“, and “censorship” start at 16:34 in the video ”Is America in decline: The US could lose the war against Russia – CBC Weekly Talk (Azerbaijan)”

Anastasia Lavrina: I don’t know if you watched the last interview of Vladimir Putin to American journalist Tucker Carlson and immediately after the West started to criticize the journalist for this interview. Why do you think the West turned against the American journalist in this particular interview is there any specific issues on the agenda?

Glenn Diesen: Well, they denounced the interview as propaganda before had even been released so I think it’s quite obvious that this doesn’t look good in terms of our principle of free speech because a lot of the attacks you know calling him a Putin puppet and you know this kind of name calling it’s not just childish but it’s also completely devoid of any substance. There’s no real criticism of you know the questions he asked or the direction he took it, so I think it demonstrates I think an unwillingness to present the opposite side of the argument and this is a huge problem.
I always make the point that at least during the Cold War we knew what Moscow’s arguments were. We didn’t feel the need to censor it but these days there’s a huge amount of censorship going on now here in the west, not only censoring Russian media but also journalist academics within the West who dare to explain what the Russians are thinking, what they’re doing, are accused of legitimizing what the Russians are doing, and one sees the call for censorship and cancellation immediately arises, so I think that a lot of the war narrative which we have been building over the past two years is based on their flawed assumption.

I don’t think many people anymore in the west really know much about very basic facts which can be proven, so I think there’s a huge concern that the whole narrative for war is disappearing and so the the need for narrative control. I think this is the greatest concern, and why there was such a fierce opposition to the Tucker Carlson interview of President Putin.

6. Glenn Diesen about Arestovych, the former advisor of Zelensky, and propaganda

Click to read the tweet.

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Glenn Diesen: The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order

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