“Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion 'Would Provoke' Russia War”
by Kit Klarenberg in Global Delinquents on Substack
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“Since the so-called #Special #Military #Operation’s February 2022 eruption, British officials have relentlessly reiterated the mantra the proxy war was ‘unprovoked’. However, a declassified March 1995 Foreign Office memo noted ‘there was a widespread psychological and intellectual perception in Moscow that NATO was a real threat.’ In May that year, then-Prime Minister John Major succinctly articulated Russian anxieties to his Irish counterpart John Bruton, as a ‘fundamental fear…of encirclement.’ Concerns about EU membership were comparatively muted”
https://open.substack.com/pub/kitklarenberg/p/declassified-uk-knew-nato-expansion
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