Trump: Biden NATO plans provoked the Ukraine war

President Biden provoked Russia’s attack on Ukraine by proposing to bring the former Soviet republic into NATO, former President Trump Donald Trump told the popular “All In” podcast June 21, a bombshell statement unreported by mainstream US news media.

“Biden was saying all the wrong things,” Trump told venture capitalist David Sacks. “And one of the worst things he was saying was, no, Ukraine will go into NATO.” The Republican presidential candidate added, “When I listened to him speak, I said, this guy’s going to start a war. As you know, for years there was never even talk of Russia going into Ukraine. That would have never happened. Russia was never going to attack Ukraine….

“Then all of a sudden, they attack. I said, ‘What’s going on here?’ But if you look at the rhetoric from Biden … he’s still saying it,” Trump added.

The former president and presumptive 2024 Republican candidate blew up the black legend of an “unprovoked” Russian attack on Ukraine, repeated endlessly in the mainstream media’s echo chamber. The US Establishment now suffers the double humiliation of having provoked a war with Russia and then having lost it. “Worse than a crime,” Napoleon’s foreign minister Talleyrand quipped, “it’s a blunder.”

A day later, British Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, a Trump friend, repeated Trump’s accusation. “The ever-eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man [Putin] a reason to his Russian people to say they’re coming for us again, and to go to war. We’ve provoked this war,” Farage told a BBC interviewer. “Of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse.”

In contrast to the stony silence of their American counterparts, the whole of the British media excoriated Farage,