re: Was Russia Promised that Nato Wouldnt Expand to the East on inch?

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First, you ignore centuries of Russian expansion at the expense of its neighbors. Second, you whitewash the horrible experience of the former Warsaw Pact nations that were brutally occupied by the Russians for almost a half century. Third, you ignore the desire of former conquered people like Lithuanians, Chechens, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Ukrainians, etc for independence from the not so tender hands of Mother Russia, and their only source of security living beside the expansionist bear, Defensive NATO membership! Fourth, in late 1994 Yeltsin sent the army into Chechnya in the aftermath of a botched Russian-orchestrated coup against the secessionist president, Dzhokhar Dudayev. There were fears that if Chechnya succeeded in breaking away from the Russian Federation, other republics might follow suit. Fifth, in 2000, just one year out of your cherry picked 7 golden years, Putin invaded Chechens again, and after years of pounding them, subdued them. Sixth, in 2008, Russia under Medvedev, invaded Georgia and stole some of its territory. Seventh, 2014, Russian forces invade Ukraine and take territory, primarily the Crimea. Eighth, in 2015 Russia entered the Syrian Civil War in support of Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad the dictator that was nerve gassing his own people. Ninth, from 2015-16 Russia cyber attacks crippled the Ukrainian electrical system. Tenth, Russian fighter jets routinely violated NATO airspace in the Baltic in 2016, and nuclear-capable missile systems were deployed to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Eleventh, in February 2018, Russian mercenaries, Putin’s favorite the Wagner Group, with Syrian allies attacked the Americans at an outpost near a crucial Conoco gas plant! After several hours of no American casualties, we killed about 200 Russians and 100 of their Syrian flunkies. Twelfth, 2022 Russia again attacked its neighbor Ukraine trying to conquer the whole country by moving on its capital Kiev. Now they apparently will settle for Ukraine’s eastern provinces.

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but NATO admitting Ukraine is like Russia setting up shop in Indiana.

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None of these people know what it’s like to be free and independent.

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Political murder is something you are cool with?

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Russia placed their soldiers and offensive weapons in Cuba.

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Events Leading to the Crisis
In April 1961, the U.S. government backed a group of Cuban exiles in an armed attempt to overthrow communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The infamous assault, known as the Bay of Pigs invasion, failed miserably, became a foreign policy black eye for President John F. Kennedy, and only widened the growing Cold War diplomatic gap between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Still smarting from the Bay of Pigs failure, the Kennedy administration in the spring of 1962 planned Operation Mongoose, a complex set of operations orchestrated by the CIA and Department of Defense, again intended to remove Castro from power. While some of the non-military actions of Operation Mongoose were conducted during 1962, the Castro regime remained solidly in place.

In July 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in response to the Bay of Pigs and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles Turkey, secretly agreed with Fidel Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in order to prevent the United States from attempting future invasions of the island.

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