NATO chief confirms Russia's reason for Ukraine intervention

By

Published: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/nato-chief-confirms-russias-account-of-ukraine-intervention-amid-an-escalation-of

Zaporozhye: graffiti instructing soldiers fighting for Kiev the radio frequency and call-sign "VOLGA" for surrendering to the Russian armed forces.

[composite: https://t.me/intelslava/51430]

Approx 744 word

Lately, political leaders in the West have developed a shared speech defect. Fewer and fewer seem able to articulate straight-forward sentences without interjecting adjectives and reinforcements words. The defect is believed to be a mild form of Coprolalia (Tourette's syndrome) and related to obsessive-compulsory behaviour.

Of all the illustrious leaders of the West, no one seems to suffer more from this handicap than NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Almost always the linguistically rather simple sentence "Russian invasion of Ukraine" comes out as "Russia's illegal, unprovoked, brutal full-scale aggression and invasion of Ukraine."

There may still be hope, though.

On 7 September 2023, in an address to lawmakers in the European Parliament, Stoltenberg confirmed the factual incorrectness of his troubled speech-patterns, injecting words which, logically, do not belong in the sentence.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:

"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that.

The opposite happened.

He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership.

We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite. He has got more NATO presence in eastern part of the Alliance and he has also seen that Finland has already joined the Alliance and Sweden will soon be a full member."

Unprovoked

In short, mr Stoltenberg admits, in his own way, that the word unprovoked does not belong in the sentence about Russia.

Illegal

Since the legality of the Russian intervention has not yet been determined in a court of law, neither does the word illegal apply.

At least not if the Western idea of presumed innocence until found something else by a court of law, is supposed to mean anything.

The Russian government has repeatedly stated that the intervention was an act of pre-emptive self-defence, since Kiev, thereto incited by Washington, was planning a large-scale military attack against the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in the Spring of 2022.

Aggressive

Regarding the notion of Russia being aggressive, the reality on the ground is that Moscow has been fighting a defensive war for the last year or so, holding on to a line which was established last year.

So, the moment Kiev stops firing their weapons and charging this line with shanghaiied kamikaze-units, the dying will stop and the battle-field fall silent.

The map below, part of a larger map published by the BBC, confirm the defensive posture of Russia's armed forces since late 2022.

Brutal

Admittedly, being on the receiving end of the apparently very effective defensive measures put up by Moscow may be a rather brutal experience for the individual soldier. But they don't have to be there and could just walk away, at least in theory, a process which the Russian Federation has endeavoured to facilitate.

The pictures below are from walls in the region of Zaporozhye, giving a call-sign and a radio frequency Ukrainian troops, who have had enough of the war, can dial into in order to ask for assistance when surrendering.

According the Sputnik International, the “VOLGA 149.200” surrender life-line is a success which, so far, has saved the lives of tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers.

Text: Kristoffer Hell

Sources: