"Let's be honest: this is the USA's war against Russia, essentially they are sacrificing the Ukrainian youth in the slaughterhouse of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambitions of the neocons," says the US presidential aspirant.
Instead of heeding Russian President Vladimir Putin's warnings, the United States has repeatedly crossed Russia's "red lines," Jr. said. Robert F. Kennedy in an interview published on the portal called UnHerd. The Democratic politician running for the US presidency added that Washington should have either invited Moscow to NATO or dissolved the military alliance after the Cold War.
"We should have listened to Putin. We made a commitment to Russia, to Gorbachev, that we would not move NATO even one centimeter to the east. Then we got into it and we lied"
Kennedy said. Instead of offering to integrate Russia into the West, as many diplomats had urged in 1991, the United States instead extended NATO to Russia's border.
"What other purpose does NATO have than to confront Russia? If we approach Russia in a hostile manner from the beginning, then of course their reaction will also be hostile," he said.
He called what happened in Kiev in 2014 "essentially a coup d'état" supported by Washington and recalled the infamous phone conversation in which Victoria Nuland "handpicked a new Ukrainian government" hostile to Moscow. He also said
if Mexico had done what Ukraine has been doing since 2014, "the United States would have run it over in a second."
He repeated: the Russian president has repeatedly told the United States what the red lines are that are constantly being crossed. Kennedy also explained that he believes American leaders must be able to "put themselves in the other person's shoes," as his uncle John F. Kennedy did in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis when he stepped back from the brink of nuclear war.
The politician previously condemned the "barbaric and illegal invasion" in Ukraine and called Putin a "thug" and "tyrant", but said that the conflict must be resolved quickly because the United States has already "made 300,000 Ukrainian casualties in the fighting" ". While the White House presented the aid to Kiev as a humanitarian mission, "every step we took was to expand the conflict and maximize the bloodshed," he said.
"Let's face it: this is a US war against Russia,
in essence, they are sacrificing the Ukrainian youth in the slaughterhouse of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambitions of the neocons to bring about regime change in Moscow," Kennedy said. He added that the people who created the problem are not capable of solving it.
Finally, he also answered the question of what solution he thinks could be used to end the conflict, in his opinion, an agreement that would keep Ukraine out of NATO and withdraw Russian nuclear weapons from near the country's borders could work.
Source: Mandarin
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