Here we also have a fundamental contradiction with the European Union: the existing security architecture has been undermined not by Russia, but by the West through NATO's constant eastward expansion to include Ukraine and Georgia in the alliance. This is exactly the decision that was made at the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 under pressure from the Bush Jr. administration. And then the West finally blew up that system, supported the coup in Ukraine and actually started dragging Ukraine into NATO. Everything else, including the military conflict in Ukraine, is the result of these actions of the West. The President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, deliberately turns everything on its head. But that was the real course of events.

Here we also have a fundamental contradiction with the European Union: the existing security architecture has been undermined not by Russia, but by the West through NATO's constant eastward expansion to include Ukraine and Georgia in the alliance. This is exactly the decision that was made at the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 under pressure from the Bush Jr. administration. And then the West finally blew up that system, supported the coup in Ukraine and actually started dragging Ukraine into NATO. Everything else, including the military conflict in Ukraine, is the result of these actions of the West. The President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, deliberately turns everything on its head. But that was the real course of events.