Link here.

I think it’s good to show this again to remind people of some of the historical context of the current proxy war between Russia and the US/NATO in Ukraine. The first portion of the video is of Putin discussing his concerns at the 2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to a group of western journalists about the placing of anti-ballistic missiles in Romania (and later Poland) as a result of the US having pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002, and the national security threat this poses to Russia and why. The last portion is a clip from Putin’s famous 2007 speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he touched on this same emerging problem.

As Ray McGovern discussed this January, Putin had requested an urgent phone call with President Biden on December 30, 2021 with respect to the talks that were to take place regarding Russia’s proposed security treaties with the US and NATO. During that call, Putin had reportedly obtained a promise from Biden that the US had no intention of placing offensive missiles in Ukraine. After that phone call, Russia drew back 10,000 of its troops from near the Ukrainian border.

Apparently, someone in the Biden administration put the kibosh on that promise and the subsequent diplomatic talks failed.