Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Bad Day For Ukr: Massive Rus Missile Strike Rocks Kiev; Rus Captures Tonenka; Sullivan Empty Handed" video.
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If you thought that NATO troop activities in Ukraine is something that developed in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup, think again. NATO has been mucking around in Ukraine since 1991. That 33 years for the math challenged out there.
Formal relations between NATO and Ukraine began in 1991, when Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (later replaced by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council) immediately upon achieving independence following the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Take a look at the 1997 — Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Ukraine.
Ukraine made a formal request in 2002 to start the process for joining NATO. This coincided with Vladimir Putin’s initiative to strip Russian oligarch keen on meddling in domestic politics of their wealth. This also angered Western oligarchs who were licking their chops to get control of Russia’s vast store of natural resources.
Military exercises with Ukraine kicked off in 2005 in the wake of the Orange Revolution. There are at least two types of military exercises — Rapid Trident (an annual joint exercise with NATO forces) and a U.S. only mission — JMTG-U, which is the acronym for Joint Military Training Group – Ukraine. The JMTG-U initiative was based at Yavoriv in Western Ukraine.
Remember Yavoriv? Russia hit it with a hypersonic missile on March 13, 2022. Wikipedia plays dumb and pretends that Yavoriv was just some normal base:
But as you will read and see in the following quotes and videos, Yavoriv was NATO Central in Ukraine and it was the primary base of operations for U.S. soldiers deployed temporarily to Ukraine over the years for training Ukrainian forces. When Russia hit it in March 2022 it scared the hell out of the NATO commanders. They realized their troops were no longer safe at a base that had hosted NATO and US troops for at least 16 years.
I have not had time to do a thorough search of all NATO and US exercises in Ukraine — if any of you have some spare time, please dig in; I would like to pull together a complete list of every NATO and US military exercise carried out in Ukraine since 2005. I suspect it is more than 40, but that’s just a guess at this point. Here is just a sampling of what I found.
July 2006 — In May Kiev will host an international conference with representatives of NATO’S 26 members; Ukraine will take part in the conference. Two months later Ukraine will, under NATO’s Partnership for Peace program, host its “Rapid Trident-2006” exercise at the National Defense Academy.
October 2021 — Rapid Trident 21 continued more than 25 years of partnership between the U.S. and Ukraine. Through efforts such as Rapid Trident 21 and Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, the U.S. Army supports ongoing training efforts and enhanced defensive capabilities of Ukraine.
With this information in hand it makes it clear that Russia’s stated objective of “demilitarization” of Ukraine also means terminating the activity of NATO and US forces inside Ukraine. If Macron is stupid enough to send thousands of French soldiers to Ukraine, they will discover what Napoleon did in 1812. When the Russian bear bites he takes off your ass. - Sonar21
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