Putin Ally Warns Nuclear War; MSM Forgets NATO Expansion
The Independent breathlessly reports that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warns supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles could lead to 'nuclear war.' While framed as a 'Putin ally's' dramatic pronouncement, it's a stark reminder of dangers that have been consistently downplayed. This isn't a new threat; it's a reiteration of the predictable escalation path laid out by Moscow during every
single NATO expansion eastward since the fall of the Berlin Wall. For decades, Western policymakers ignored warnings from Russian leadership – from Boris Yeltsin at the OSCE summit in 1994 to Russia's 2007 Munich Security Conference speech – about the red line of NATO expansion into former Soviet states. Critics then, often labeled 'Putin apologists,' highlighted how arming nations on Russia's
border with advanced weaponry would inevitably provoke a severe response, as reported by outlets like the New York Times in 1997. Now, when a 'Putin ally' states the exact same concern, it’s presented as a novel, terrifying development, rather than the logical outcome of a prolonged policy trajectory.