NATO Confirmed that Ukraine “War Started in 2014”

Bombshell: NATO Confirmed that Ukraine “War Started in 2014”. Who Started the War?
Statements of NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg

MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

This article was first published on  August 27, 2023

Update and Introductory Note

The crucial question is When did the Ukraine War Commence? Who Started the War?

According to Joe Biden:

“The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine without provocation, without justification, without necessity. (Joe Biden’s, Press conference, February 24, 2022)

According to Google (at the time of writing: February 11, 2024)

When did the war between Russia and Ukraine start?

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II.

What is important to underscore is that NATO’s Secretary General in a formal statement to the European Parliament contradicts the official narrative. He unequivocally confirms that the War started in 2014

On September 7, 2023, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg  in a presentation to the European Parliament, formally acknowledged that:

“the war didn’t start in February last year [2022]. It started in 2014.”

That was ten years ago.

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Author’s note

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