{"id":289837,"date":"2025-03-17T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289837"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:49:45","slug":"myths-and-reality-how-and-why-a-false-narrative-on-ukraine-was-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/myths-and-reality-how-and-why-a-false-narrative-on-ukraine-was-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths and Reality: How and Why a False Narrative on Ukraine Was Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>12 Mar 2025 &#8211; <em>At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made at very high levels by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that the NATO would not advance even an inch eastwards towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken, despite opposition by dozens of senior western statesmen who foresaw the dangers inherent in this, and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EU_NATO_logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-249327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EU_NATO_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EU_NATO_logo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EU_NATO_logo-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EU_NATO_logo-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/false-narrative-ukraine-created\/5881843\" >TO READ FULL STORY Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Mar 2025 &#8211; At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that NATO would not advance towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1035,3222,739,91,278,1560,961,70],"class_list":["post-289837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-eastern-europe","tag-german-reunification","tag-germany","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289837","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=289837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289841,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289837\/revisions\/289841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}