🏴⚠️NATO is the Trap – Not Moscow
🏴⚠️NATO is the Trap — Not Moscow
✍️Author: Phil Butler
Policy Investigator & Eastern Europe Expert
➡️Key Points:
🔴Consistent Warnings Ignored: Since 2007 Munich Conference, Putin repeatedly warned NATO expansion was “serious provocation” that would end in catastrophe – dismissed as Russian paranoia.
🔴Documented Peace Efforts: Russia tabled concrete proposals including December 2021 draft treaties demanding no NATO Ukraine membership, March 2022 Istanbul agreement for Ukrainian neutrality, and July 2025 comprehensive peace package.
🔴Western Media Erasure: Outlets like Politico and Japan Times claim Russia offers only “traps” while systematically ignoring existing peace documents and treating negotiation positions as proof of bad faith.
🔴Historical Context: Current conflict traces to 2014 Euromaidan, which Moscow views as NATO-backed coup that permanently militarized Ukraine against Russian interests.
🔴Real Trap Identified: NATO’s pattern of promising “defense” while expanding eastward, celebrating “democracy” while backing regime change, and using Ukraine as expendable frontline territory.
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