Academics, Journalists, and NATO head report on U.S. provocations in Ukraine

Using quotations from diplomats and Udio.com for the music, I created this rap-like song about the foolishness and hubris of NATO expansion. This is part three. Part one is here. Part two is here. See Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say: The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine for documentation about the quotations.

John J. Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, wrote in 2015:
"The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path,
and the end result is that Ukraine is going to be wrecked."

Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times:
"America and NATO aren't innocent in Ukraine."
Pope Francis wrote, "The real 'scandal' of Putin’s war is
NATO “barking at Putin’s door."

Christopher Caldwell wrote in the New York Times:
“In 2014 the United States backed an uprising ...
against the legitimately elected Ukrainian government
of Viktor Yanukovych, which was pro-Russian.”

NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said Putin
"went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO,
close to his borders." Stephen M. Walt,
professor at Harvard University, wrote:

"This war would have been far less likely if the United States
had adopted a strategy of foreign-policy restraint.
The Biden Administration and its predecessors
are far from blameless."  Michael Brenner,

professor at University of Pittsburgh
wrote, "The provocations as you enumerated them were very great.
And whether there was any alternative for Russia other than this
recourse to a military solution, is a difficult question."

The 2019 RAND Corporation study Overextending and Unbalancing Russia
recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia.
It predicted that those actions would result in a war.

The New York Times and Washington Post reported on deep
CIA involvement in the run-up to the Russian invasion.
Medium reported that the Nazi Azov battalion received U.S. weapons.

The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged
in a broad effort to "close off many sources related
to Russia/Ukraine matters."

See Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say: The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine for documentation about the quotations and for further information.

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