Ex-MI6 Chief: 'Don't put Putin in a corner'....Really?

I think it's important that we leave a way out for Putin from this crisis. If we trap him in a corner and he feels his whole existence is a threat as leader of the Russian regime, then that is a very dangerous time for us all.

I mean, look at how absurd this is. He's saying, correctly, that if you push Russia into a corner, it's not really wise. It's dangerous. It's dangerous for Europe. It's dangerous for everybody.

They have 6,000 nuclear weapons. It's a nuclear power. You don't wanna put them into a corner. Well, that's what you've been doing. That's what you've been deliberately doing, knowingly doing, completely conscious of the risks.

You were warned in The United States, in The in Europe, The UK, warned by your intelligence services that Russia sees Ukraine as a red line. Ukraine joining NATO is a red line. They see it as an existential threat to Russia. You've been knowing that for fourteen years, and you've insistently been pushing them into a corner, and now you're saying, if we push them into a corner, it's dangerous. That's what you've been doing.

That's what you did do. Knowingly, deliberately, calculatedly.

I think it's really important. This is this is a dangerous time, a dangerous time across Europe. It's really important this doesn't become a conflict between NATO and Russia, and it and Putin can't turn it into an issue where it looks as though we are battling against Russia.

And now you're saying, we don't want this to become a conflict between NATO and Russia. Then why did you insist on the right of Ukraine to become a a member of NATO? Why? Because it would immediately be a military con you none of you wanna send troops. None you don't wanna send troops.

You don't wanna send fighter jets. You don't wanna have a no fly zone because that will immediately become a military conflict between European countries, between NATO and Russia. Well, if you allowed Ukraine to become a member of NATO, then it would be. You would have to do that. You would have to send troops.

You would have to send fighter jets. You would have to have a no fly zone. You would have to do all of the things that you don't wanna do now if you let Ukraine into NATO. But you don't wanna do those things, which means you don't want Ukraine to be in NATO. If you had just said that from the beginning, then you wouldn't have this problem because that is precisely the thing that Russia has always opposed and has always let you know is a red line for them.

And it's the exact same thing, that one precise thing that the West that The US refused to negotiate prior to this conflict. We'll talk we can talk about everything, but we we will not talk about the possibility. It's completely off the table that Ukraine will be just a neutral country and not a member of NATO. We're not gonna even discuss that. We have to continue to hold out the, future possibility of Ukraine joining NATO when the reality is none of you wanna go to war with your own troops, with your own fighter jets, against Russia for the sake of Ukraine.

So you don't want them to be NATO. You don't wanna you don't want to be obliged to go to war with your troops and your fighter jets against Russia. Correctly, you shouldn't want to, but you don't wanna do it. But you would have to do it if you let him join NATO, which means you were never gonna let him join NATO in the first place. So why didn't you just say that?

The entire thing is fabricated for the purpose of what is happening. What is happening now is what they wanted to have happen because it was easily averted, could easily have been avoided. Everybody knows how to avoid it. Everyone knew how to avoid it for the last fourteen years. Everyone saw it coming for fourteen years, and you pursued it, diligently until it happened.

Meaning that what is happening now is exactly what you wanted to have happen.

What we're doing is we're supporting Ukraine in its independence and its self determination and in its sovereignty.

I just wanted to say one thing about hypocrisy. Can talk about the hypocrisy of the West. You can talk about the hypocrisy of The United States and all of that, and it's all true. But you're not learning the lesson from that. To say, well, you didn't care about, national sovereignty when you invaded Iraq. You

didn't care about national sovereignty and independence when you invaded Afghanistan or any of the other places, you didn't care about it then, why do you care about it now? That's true. That's all true. That is hypocritical. But it's only hypocritical if you actually think that the rhetoric means something to them.

The principles don't mean anything to them. They didn't believe in national sovereignty when they invaded Iraq. They didn't believe in it when they invaded Afghanistan, and they don't believe in it now. That has nothing to do with the the West's response, the collective West's response engineered by The United States to the conflict in Ukraine. Has nothing to do with it.

That's just the sales pitch. That's just rhetorical cover for a project of destabilization that has been pursued knowingly, calculatedly, deliberately for fourteen years.