U.S. Diplomats rap about aggressive NATO expansion
and how it provoked the war in Ukraine (Part One)

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 one. Part two is here. Part three 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.

Diplomat and Cold War architect George Kennan said
of NATO expansion, "I think it is a tragic mistake.
There was no reason for this whatsoever.
No one was threatening anybody else."

Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense, wrote:
"Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was
truly overreaching, -- recklessly ignoring what the
Russians considered their own vital national interests."

William J. Burns, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, wrote:
"Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior officials
have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that Russia would view
further eastward expansion as a potential military threat."

William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense, wrote:
"Many have pointed to the expansion of NATO
in the mid-1990s as a critical provocation.
...our actions have contributed to that hostility.”

Chas Freeman, Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council,
says that the U.S. "engineered" the twenty-fourteen coup in Ukraine.
"The United States and NATO began a multi-billion-dollar
effort to reorganize, retrain, and re-equip Kyiv's armed forces.

The avowed purpose was to enable Kyiv to reconquer the Donbas
and eventually Crimea. Crimea was Russian-speaking and had
several times voted not to be part of Ukraine."

Former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock wrote:
"Interference by the United States and its NATO allies
in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis
within Ukraine.

In denying that Russia has a 'right' to oppose extension of a
hostile military alliance to its national borders,
the United States ignores its own history of declaring and enforcing
for two centuries a sphere of influence in the Western hemisphere."

Defense Secretary McNamara and 49 U.S. foreign policy experts
wrote to President Clinton in 1997: "We ... believe that
the current U.S. led effort to expand NATO ... 
is a policy error of historic proportions."

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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U.S. Diplomats rap about aggressive NATO expansion and how it provoked the war in Ukraine (Part One)

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U.S. Diplomats rap about aggressive NATO expansion
and how it provoked the war in Ukraine (Part One)