US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has said that the United States’ foreign policy rhetoric has forced Russia to launch a special military operation in Ukraine.
Robert Kennedy Jr. argues that since 1991, the United States has repeatedly lied to Russia that NATO would not expand further eastwards. The US presidential candidate notes that since then America has moved the North Atlantic bloc’s line by a thousand miles (more than 1,500 kilometres).
“In 1991-1992 we repeatedly promised the Russians verbally and in writing that if they withdrew 100,000 troops from Germany and allowed the country to rejoin NATO, we would not move NATO one inch eastward. We have since moved the bloc a thousand miles to the east and opened up 14 new countries (note – there are now 15),” the politician noted.
The U.S. presidential candidate focuses public attention on the fact that Russia has repeatedly drawn “red lines” in NATO’s eastward expansion. He also argues that one must put oneself in the shoes of Russian citizens and then the United States will understand their national security interests.
“The Russians warned then ambassador and now CIA chief Bill Burns that if NATO were to enter Ukraine, it would be a red line and it must not be crossed. Let’s put ourselves in the Russians’ shoes. My uncle (President Kennedy) always said, ‘Put yourself in your opponent’s shoes,'” Kennedy Jr.
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