by Kanekoa at Kanekoa News
During a NewsNation town hall with the presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expresses his deep empathy for the Ukrainian people and strongly condemns Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. He also raises concerns about NATO expansion, the US withdrawal from the INF treaty, and the rejection of the April 2022 peace agreement by the West.
Drawing upon his uncle, President Kennedy’s belief in the importance of avoiding war, Kennedy Jr. emphasizes his personal connection to the conflict, mentioning that his son volunteered as a machine gunner for a Ukrainian special forces unit during the Kharkiv offensive.
He argues that the war could have ended in April 2022, when Putin and Zelensky signed a peace agreement. However, he asserts that the US and NATO sent Boris Johnson to sabotage the agreement, which would have resulted in Russian troop withdrawal from Ukraine in exchange for a promise that Ukraine would not join NATO.
Kennedy Jr. criticizes the proxy nature of the war, stating, “Since then, there have been 350,000 Ukrainian kids that have been killed. And we’ve turned this into a proxy war between Russia and the United States. We were told this was a humanitarian exercise.”
He highlights contradictory statements made by President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, indicating that the US’s motives in Ukraine were not purely humanitarian but rather focused on regime change and degrading the Russian military:…
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