Changes

Under Stoltenberg, NATO provided funding, training, and equipment to the [[Azov Battalion]] and other neo-Nazi groups in the Donbas war.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/819440171505424/permalink/1009413912508048/?comment_id=1012666118849494</ref>

Under Stoltenberg, NATO provided funding, training, and equipment to the [[Azov Battalion]] and other neo-Nazi groups in the Donbas war.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/819440171505424/permalink/1009413912508048/?comment_id=1012666118849494</ref>

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021, that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers.  Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been.  Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine.  Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could easily turn out to be a suicidal course.  He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike.  Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders.  60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country."  President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia [[Jack Matlock]] wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021, that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers.  Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been.  Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine.  Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could easily turn out to be a suicidal course.  He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike.  Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders.  60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country."  President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

===Crimes against peace===

===Crimes against peace===