US ‘flooded’ Ukraine with weapons for eight years de facto expanding NATO - US journalist - TASS

Since 2014, the US has been "flooding" Ukraine with weaponry, systematically increasing its influence there by de facto expanding NATO without granting Ukraine formal membership in the alliance, American journalist Glenn Greenwald blogged on Sunday.

He emphasized that American politicians and media have been attempting to present Russia in an unfavorable light for a long time. At the same time, their political opponents who urged for a diplomatic resolution of Ukraine-related issues, faced the "set of accusations about their loyalty and patriotism" as well as of a pro-Russian attitude.

According to the journalist, "most taboo of all was any discussion of the heavy involvement of the U.S. in Ukraine beginning in 2014." In his opinion, this involved the US influence on Ukrainian politicians, the supplies of armaments and the deployment of military instructors and intelligence officers. "Along with its NATO allies, the U.S. has flooded Ukraine with billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry, with at least some of those arms ending up in the hands of actual neo-Nazi battalions integrated into the Ukrainian government and military," the journalist noted.

In the recent years, the US policy "amounted to a form of de facto NATO expansion without the formal membership," Greenwald wrote. "The U.S. is, by definition, waging a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians as their instrument, with the goal of not ending the war but prolonging it," he thinks. In the end, the author noted that US President Joe Biden is "risking war between the world's two largest nuclear powers over Ukraine."