Reidar Kaarboe
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In connection with the war in Ukraine, the USA owes several apologies to the Russians. Once they are given, it will be pretty clear who should do what with whom to achieve lasting peace, even though the war in Ukraine wasn't started on Donald Trump’s watch.
● The US must apologize for breaking an explicit promise not to expand NATO eastward. If the Russians had broken their promise not to deploy missiles in Cuba, it would have been a major scandal in the West. Now, no one in the West cares about the USA’s broken promise.
● The US must apologize for failing to respect a "red line" and the "existential threat" that Russia perceived with NATO expansion, just as the USA perceived it when the Russians sailed toward Cuba with missiles. The US said that if the Russians did not turn back, there would be war, and the Russians turned back. The Russians said that if NATO did not stop its expansion eastward, there would be war. And there was war.
● The US must apologize for "investing" 5 billion dollars in regime change, which led to the overthrow of a democratically elected government. If the Russians had done something similar in a country, resulting in war for the USA, there would have been an uproar in the West. Now, no one talks about it.