Far-right figures blame NATO, Biden for Russian aggression

If the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had not expanded to Russia’s borders, it would all still be peace and love in Europe, according to that logic.

Both Britain’s Nigel Farage, right, and America’s Donald Trump have recently claimed the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization provoked the war in Ukraine, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 24, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—There is one thing almost all populist nationalists agree on: the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and the continuing carnage there was the fault of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. If NATO had not expanded to Russia’s borders, it would all still ...

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