NATO Chief Admits: “War Didn’t Start In February Last Year, The War Started In 2014”

With the one-year anniversary of Russia’s February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine quickly approaching, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg this week issued some surprising words regarding the history and origin of the conflict.

Stoltenberg finally admitted an important truth, which is of course extremely rare among top Western officials these days.

This from zerohedge.com.

Prior to these fresh remarks by Stoltenberg, US and NATO officials including major media, have framed the invasion exclusively as merely one man’s (Putin) ‘unprovoked’ naked aggression bent on enlarging an ‘expansionist Russia.’

Stoltenberg now much belatedly admits:

 

 “[T]he war didn’t start in February last year. The war started in 2014.”

 

Here’s what the NATO chief said during a briefing to reporters, and in front of cameras, as also transcribed and published to NATO’s official website:

The other thing I will say is that the war didn’t start in February last year. The war started in 2014.

And since 2014, NATO Allies have provided support to Ukraine, with training, with equipment, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces were much stronger in 2022, than they were in 2020, and 2014. And of course, that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine.

And of course, a central reason for the war articulated by President Putin both in the lead-up to the invasion and after has consistently been that the West was waging an anti-Russia proxy war right at its doorstep, namely in the war-torn Donbass.

It also bears recalling that throughout last year, and especially in the opening months of the major Russian invasion, any independent voice daring to point out that the conflict in fact originated in 2014—and that the current fighting is an extension and escalation of the ‘long war’ was denounced as somehow ‘pro-Kremlin’ or else a ‘Putin puppet’ in mainstream discourse.

Below are some essential facts and a much-needed trip down memory lane concerning the lead-up to Feb 2022 to understand what independent voices have been saying for years, and what Stoltenberg has just now very belatedly and reluctantly admitted:

In the Russian view, the United States has the ability and willingness to unilaterally destroy or overthrow any government that does not do its bidding. The experience of Serbia (1999), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and most recently Ukraine (2014) and the attempt in Belarus (2021) seem to support their perspective.

Those who are going on about Russia’s “imperial ambitions” under “Communist dictator Vladimir Putin” have little knowledge about any of this, or why the Russians might feel legitimately threatened by having a US-sponsored and NATO-aligned regime for a neighbor.

Below: A rare past instance of what real journalism looks like, often completely missing in the Regime’s press briefing rooms:

Consider: For over two hundred years, the American “Monroe Doctrine” has stated that no foreign power will be allowed to form a military alliance with any nation in the entire Western Hemisphere. This is the bedrock principle of American foreign policy.

Compare this to Europe:

Kiev and Moscow are separated by a mere 470 miles of flat land. What Russian leader in their right mind would allow an “anti-Russia” to be created and then armed in its own back yard? 

It’s not like any of this is a new concern. The Russians have been straight forward about this concern for thirty years, right up to the last ditch public appeal they delivered in December.

Recall that ideological fanatics occupying our foreign service responded by sending massive shipments full of weapons into Ukraine, and then tweeted out photos of the cargo aircraft flying them in.

Well, as the last year of horrific death and destruction in Ukraine has shown, the necons and wokesters finally got their war.

Now they’re making sure it gets fought down to the last Ukrainian, resulting in very sad and tragic spectacles like the following:

Final thoughts: Anyone still blaming Putin for the horror that has been occurring in Ukraine, please read this entire article. If that is not possible, at least read the emboldened words. There is obviously plenty of blame, ineptitude, and corruption to go around.