Video: Russia’s Serious Warning to NATO
Bruce Gagnon / Global Network Video

(April 17, 2025) — This month’s Global Network video comes at a crucial time as negotiations between the Trump administration and Russia have slowed down to a crawl.

Russia repeatedly attempted diplomacy after the US orchestrated coup d’etat in Kiev, Ukraine in 2014. Twice Russia led negotiations for the Minsk 1 & 2 agreements that called for a ceasefire between Kiev and the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.  The agreements left the Dnbass under Ukraine’s control but provided for local autonomy.

Soon after the 2014 coup the first thing that the newly selected government in Kiev (by Victoria Nuland and the Obama administration) was to declare the speaking of Russian in Ukraine illegal. Russian ethnic citizens of Ukraine in the Donbass began to peacefully protest and soon were attacked by the Ukrainian army loaded with neo-Nazis who predominate in the western part of Ukraine, near the Polish border.

These Ukrainian troops were trained, armed and directed by US-NATO (as recently admitted by the New York Times) and sent east. The Donbass region is heavily loaded with coal miners who came out of the mines to defend their families and their lands.

A couple years ago, the former leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine admitted they never intended to honor the Minsk Agreements but instead used them buy more time to increase the size of the Ukrainian army for on-going war with Russia.

Due to climate change, and the melting Arctic ice, the western resource extraction corporations, and their government puppets, have intended to break Russia up into smaller nations in order to steal Russia’s vast resource base

Few know that European powers have attempted for over 500 years to break Russia into pieces – something tried by Napoleon in France and Hitler in Germany. Sweden tried about a dozen times to invade and topple the Russian government over many years.

Russia’s position today is they don’t want war. They became a capitalist country with a military budget in the range of $150 billion in 2024 in comparison to the US military budget of $1 trillion. There is no way Russia could invade all of Europe as NATO regularly proclaims.

Russia wants the west to honor the promise made to them at the time of the collapse of the former Soviet Union that NATO would not expand eastward toward their nation. Since the Bill Clinton program of NATO expansion the western military alliance has been on steroids.

Russia also demands a mutual security agreement for all of Europe and an end to the neo-Nazi backed regime in Kiev. Since the citizens of the Donbass have voted to rejoin Russia, Moscow says that Kiev and NATO must respect those choices.

So the western resource extraction corporations and the military industrial complex wish to keep the war going for obvious reasons.