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In my video from 2016, I showed a map of the NATO expansion, so in 1942 it was just a few

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countries, and then this is 1982. Now in 1990, the United States promised that NATO would not

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stop its expansion, and that was a promise by the United States. Well, where are we today?

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This is the NATO expansion and these super dark blue countries. This was 2023, and this was 2020

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March of this year, 2024. We're still expanding NATO. The Ukraine wants to be part of NATO.

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That is what this war is being fought about. It's basically, it's a NATO military base,

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but it's basically a U.S. military base with U.S. weaponry. And so it's in all of these countries

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right on the border with Russia. Well, what does this do to the threat of nuclear war? Here,

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look at the buffer zone. We added Denmark. I can't remember what year, but they can be,

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all their subs and ships can be monitored now trying to get to the Atlantic. We keep on

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adding countries, but look at the buffer zone going across here to Italy and then up West

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Germany and Norway as far as the distance to Moscow. And then we were going to unite East

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Germany and that was it. Just allow East Germany. That's all we would take and look at what has

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happened since then. And so they just cannot, and Putin has said this, that they cannot allow

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pretty much at any price, at the price of World War three, they cannot allow Ukraine to become

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a member of NATO and have U.S. military bases. They're going to be NATO bases, but with all the

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U.S. weapons and a bunch of U.S. soldiers right on their border. This is the cause of this

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war in Ukraine. And John Meersheimer said it nine years ago in that video. So I highly

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suggest that you watch some of these things.