Why did the NATO knobs fail to open the door of peace as Putin beat his bare chest like a pocket-sized guerrilla?

The world seemed shocked and horrified at Putin’s incendiary and murderous attack on the Ukraine. Yet NATO and the US have repeatedly warned – and been warned – that Russia would attack.

Now, as the tin-pot guardian’s of the Western World’s security put on their tin hats and wave bombs around like plastic swords, they bleat from the battlements that Putin will have to pay a high price for invading.

The question therefore has to be, why didn’t NATO and the US do anything about what was looming in the dark valleys and mountains of Europe for so many years?

Today the world is shocked and frightened as Vlad the Inhaler tries to suck his empire of snow, oil and gas back together.

So, it is back to bar-room bravado and ridicule … from Kyiv to Kentish town, Poprad to Preston, Washington to Wallasey the knives of the tongue are flashing … Putin is mad, he is the new Hitler, Vlad impaled the world on his cock-iness, arrogance and money. And then there is his desire to ride triumphantly across the land that is his beating heart, bare-chested, thin lipped and as bald as Bruce Willis.

So, is Vlad mad? Or just doing his job?

He has been demanding a guarantee from Nato that the Ukraine and former Soviet countries will not be allowed to join. 

Vladimir Putin also wants the alliance to halt weapon deployment and move back its forces from Eastern Europe. Nato has rejected these demands.

Jozef Bonk, 19, was shot and then demonised in his grave – now he is a symbol of truth and freedom – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society

Ukraine has said that it wants to become a Nato member. Joining would up Ukraine’s defensive strength as, under Article 5, an attack against one ally is an attack against all allies. This binds the member states to protect each other.

Mr Putin is vehemently against Ukraine joining Nato and views the alliance’s expansion as a threat to Russia. He claims that Moscow’s military movements are a response to Ukraine’s growing ties to the alliance.

Putin says that Moscow has been betrayed by the West as they broke commitments made at the end of the Cold War that Nato would not move eastward.

Nato denies any assurances were made.

Ex-Soviet states Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined in 1999, then Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia and Slovenia joined in 2004. 

Moscow demands assurances that Ukraine will never become a member of Nato and that the West’s expansion eastward is curbed.

Do you know as the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg says: “Despite our repeated warnings and tireless efforts to engage in diplomacy, Russia has chosen the path of aggression against a sovereign and independent country.”

So, again, is Vlad mad? Or has NATO failed in its duty to sort things out before people lost their lives under a hard rain of falling bombs?

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