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Ron Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"

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What was Putin doing from when he pushed his way into the Kremlin in 1999 to today? Invading and subjugating former Soviet satellite states and installing puppet regimes, installing military build up along the eastern NATO border. Yeah real peacenik that bald little psychopath.

He's definitely defending Putin. There was never any such agreement on NATO, maybe some backroom promises but nothing official. And NATO has been on his border for over 20 years.

They were saying it right after the invasion so it's not new. It's also just straight Russian propaganda. Ukraine had a stated goal of joining NATO but they weren't close to being able to.

Yeah, that's not what Putin's propaganda says though. Gorbachev admits those discussions didn't involve the rest of Eastern Europe though.

Eastern Europe, Poland etc saw Russia becoming a gangster state and looked west for security. Putin made this. Republicans love the way he does stuff.

共和党上院のロン・ジョンソンが昔懐かしい陰謀論言っているんだが、ソ連崩壊の際に米国務長官のベイカーがゴルバチョフにNATOは1インチも東へ行かないと言ったという話。その1インチ発言は非公式の会話の中であったものだが、あくまで東ドイツとソ連国境の話でNATOはカンケーない。当然そんな条約もないんだが、プーがウクライナ侵攻の理由にデッチアゲたもの、侵攻当時はこの論がまことしやかに流布されて多くの識者が誤解した。後にゴルバチョフ自身がプーのウソだとバラして、歴史家の多くも今はデッチアゲと理解している。ま、プーいうのはKGBであってこの手の騙しが専門なワケで、ジョンソンはマジかも知れんな。

from the Atlantic to the Pacific- the former Soviet Republics and ALL of Europe to be ruled by Vladimir the Redeemer from Moscow. his empire of "Eurasia" google "Putin's brainchild" and/or "Aleksandr Dugin"

Btw, my father was an interrogator of Polish-speaking refugees and prisoners at Nuremberg. And yes, it was because we were rightfully concerned about Russia and what Stalin planned.

Cop: why did you break into this house and muder everyone? Perp: the law is unfair. I did it to prove breaking, entering and murder are okay. Also: Israel, Russia, Saudi, Myanmar

This is literally a Kremlin talking point. And doesn't explain the pattern that started with Chechnya and moved west, to Crimea and then western Ukraine. Russia had every opportunity to become an economic and political partner to its neighbors, but instead chose 19th century imperialism.

jesusmotherfuckingchristonapogostick!! so the party that claimed to be anti russia during the cold war has done a 180.. so all those crawl under my desk in case of nuclear war drills in school were a waste of time?🤔 something tells me these are NOT serious people..🤮🤬

Says the guy who celebrated July 4, 2018 in Moscow, 12 days before Trump had his private meeting with Putin in Helsinki after which Trump told the world to believe Putin over our own DNI Coats and other US Intel agencies. Johnson is a traitor, same as trump.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have joined NATO, but they have not in any way been aggressive toward Russia. All countries prepare to defend their country but doing so does not establish an intention to attack Russia.

Senator Rob Johnson, who vacationed in Moscow on July 4th several years ago along with 7 other lawmakers - all Republican, is repeating Russian talking points. Is there anyone in the GOP who hasn’t been compromised by Russia?

So because Putin doesn’t want NATO at Russia’s doorstep, he invades Ukraine, with the goal of expanding Russia to reach NATO’s doorstep? Makes total sense.

And zero pushback???? Shocking! This is MUCH bigger than just winning midterms and Trump being gone….WTF has happened to this country!!!????

When I was young I remember Kruschev telling Americans that they would place people in our government who were pro Russia and eventually the US would fall like a ripened fruit into their hands.

Someone should ask this old fuck what the Budapest Memorandum is. He is old enough to know what it is and the US has failed that agreement

Ron's "one inch" line is a myth. There was no treaty, only a verbal assurance, and Georgia and Crimea happened to countries that were never in NATO. Putin chose to invade. And Wisconsin's Eastern European communities remember exactly who kept sending tanks.

How does someone push NATO to the east🤔🤔, Is he saying free sovereign countries, shouldn’t have been allowed to join NATO because they were to close to Russia 🤔🤔

We really have been brainwashed by western media for any decades.... Russia BAD.... Muslims BAD.... China BAD... Think of all the books, TV shows, movies.... And we swallowed it all without questioning it.... I'm not, by ANY means, saying that Russia etc are blameless... But.. Do your OWN research

NATO was stable and established…wasn’t moving east. Ukraine was independent…Finland stayed neutral…no threats to Russia…besides Ukraine gave up nukes based on treaty agreed to my us. This is all russias doing…not US, not Europe…not NATO

oh RJ which party was President and in control of congress at end of cold war?? The same one refused to do arg loans to Russia.....same party claims to be Christian....what party RJ? GOP...

Ron Johnson blew off FBI concerns about Russian disinformation A Russian agent claimed he fed information to Johnson. When Johnson was asked whether he’d possibly relied on information from Kremlin-backed sources, he evaded direct questions. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowWhy Ron Johnson blew off FBI concerns about Russian disinformationThe FBI warned Ron Johnson last year that he was "a target of Russian disinformation." He thought the smart move would be to blow off the FBI's concerns.

Just part of the 2018 GOP crew that was honeypotted by the GRU • Sen. Richard Shelby (Alabama) – Delegation Leader • Sen. Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) • Sen. John Thune (SD) • Sen. John Kennedy (LA) • Sen. Steve Daines (MT) • Sen. John Hoeven (ND) • Sen. Jerry Moran (Kansas) • Rep. Kay Granger (Texas)

How is this moron still in Congress.. sheesh, I'm tired of shaking my head..! Do people who vote for him not have an iota of common sense? He's just plain Dum(b).

This is not about how "we treated Putin." FFS, he was KGB & he freaked out in East Germany when the wall came down. He's an authoritarian down to his black soul & he wormed his way into Yeltsin's world so he could position himself to take over. He was a sneaky asshole & it worked. Shut up, Red Ron.

Also, it's a Russian lie about NATO. They never made any formal commitment on where to place their bases. Oh, but Russia did make a formal agreement to never invade Ukraine if they surrendered thier nuclear weapons, which Ukraine did.

in A just world, borders are respected Only treasonous POS destroy world peace Look at who is doing this and then understand we must vote them out of power

1/ What Ron Johnson is saying is simply untrue. Western leaders never pledged not to enlarge NATO. The USSR never raised the question of NATO enlargement other than how it might apply to the GDR. What the Germans, US, UK, & French agreed in 1990 was that there would be no deployment

2/ of non-German NATO forces on the territory of the former GDR. The reality is that few gave the possibility of broader NATO expansion in the east any serious thought. The agreement on not deploying foreign troops on the territory of the GDR was incorporated in Article 5

3/ of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (1990). When one reads the full text of the Woerner speech, it is clear that the Sec-Gen’s comments referred to NATO forces in E. Germany, not a broader commitment not to enlarge NATO.

Joerg Scheller@joergscheller.bsky.social

Zwei Fakten, mit denen man rinkslechte Schwurbler im Kontext des #UkraineKrieg konfrontieren sollte: 1. "1997 unterzeichneten beide Seiten die #NATO -Russland-Grundakte. Darin erkennt #Russland… an, dass es kein Vetorecht gegen die NATO-Mitgliedschaft anderer Länder hat." www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi...