{"id":244035,"date":"2023-09-11T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=244035"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:13","slug":"nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded-ukraine-because-of-nato-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/09\/nato-chief-openly-admits-russia-invaded-ukraine-because-of-nato-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"info-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string bold\" dir=\"auto\">9 Sep 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">During a speech at the EU Parliament&#8217;s foreign affairs committee on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSVpdVurBdk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\" ><em>at <\/em><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\" >Medium<\/a>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a speech at the EU Parliament on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2314,1268,234,91,2571,112,818,278,961,70,1365],"class_list":["post-244035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-corporate-media","tag-european-union","tag-media","tag-nato","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-pentagon","tag-proxy-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-war-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244036,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244035\/revisions\/244036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}