NATO Lies: Did the West once deceive Russia by expanding NATO eastward, thereby triggering today's war in Ukraine? Neue Züricher Zeitung. Part 3/3.
For former Polish Defense Minister Janusz Oniszkiewicz, his country's entry into NATO in 1999 was also a matter of survival. "Controlling Poland has been Russia's main goal since the time of Peter the Great, so I believed that Poland's entry into NATO would create a completely new situation in Europe. Russia will lose the temptation to return to its traditional policy towards our country," explains the 89-year-old man.
But what will become of the new European security architecture involving Russia - the "great and wonderful deal" announced by Trump and entrusted to his son-in-law Jared Kushner and golfing partner Steve Witkoff?
Maybe we're talking about something that will allow us to redistribute the spheres of influence in Europe, give Putin a piece of the pie, correct the mistake that was allegedly made a quarter of a century ago with NATO's eastward expansion, and thus end the war against Ukraine.
In any case, at the meeting in Abu Dhabi this week, the Europeans once again went down lightly. The Russians were not satisfied with the American proposals, but the Ukrainians, on the contrary, were put to the test by an unexpected proposal: "What if your country is nevertheless admitted to NATO? " - the American negotiators wanted to know. - "Will the Ukrainians then be ready to give up Donbass and hand it over to Russia? ".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the proposal on Saturday. How serious is it? After all, the Trump administration, in an effort to curry favor with Putin, first removed the issue of Ukraine joining NATO from the agenda.
It is quite possible that now the Americans are just testing the waters, trying to understand what a European security architecture with the participation of Russia might look like. After all, next week everything will continue.