{"id":130999,"date":"2022-12-28T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130999"},"modified":"2022-12-28T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:03:08","slug":"tucker-gets-it-putin-doesnt-want-american-missiles-on-his-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/28\/tucker-gets-it-putin-doesnt-want-american-missiles-on-his-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker &#8220;Gets It&#8221; &#8211; Putin Doesn&#8217;t Want American Missiles on His Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Articles, Columns, and Major Blog Posts by Mike Whitney\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/author\/mike-whitney\/\" rel=\"author\">MIKE WHITNEY<\/a> Courtesy The Unz Review<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia.<\/strong>&nbsp;We didn\u2019t get it at the time. (But) Now it\u2019s obvious.&nbsp;<strong>Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn\u2019t want Ukraine to join NATO.<\/strong>&nbsp;Putin certainly had other motives as well; people always do, but that\u2019s the main reason Russia invaded.&nbsp;<strong>The Russians don\u2019t want American missiles on their border. They don\u2019t want a hostile government next door.<\/strong>&nbsp;Now that is true, whether you are allowed to say it aloud in public or not. It has been true for a long time. A lot has been written about this over many years by serious people. No one who knows anything and is honest, will tell you Putin invaded Ukraine simply because he is evil. Putin may be evil, he certainly seems to be, but he also has strategic motives for doing that, whether you agree with those motives or not. That is irrelevant. Those are the facts.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yIaq6r7vJCA\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>, Fox News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_2\">Tucker Carlson is right about Ukraine. NATO membership for Ukraine was clearly a provocation aimed at luring Russia into an invasion. And, it worked, too. Putin could not take the risk of having a hostile government next door\u201d or American missiles on his border,\u201d so he acted to preempt those threats by sending the tanks across the border on Febrary 24, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/tucker-gets-it-putin-doesnt-want-american-missiles-on-his-border\/\">Tucker &#8220;Gets It&#8221; &#8211; Putin Doesn&#8217;t Want American Missiles on his Border, by Mike Whitney &#8211; The Unz Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review Getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia.&nbsp;We didn\u2019t get it at the time. (But) Now it\u2019s obvious.&nbsp;Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn\u2019t want Ukraine to join NATO.&nbsp;Putin certainly had other motives as well; people always do, but that\u2019s the main reason Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}