This statement was made by American journalist Candace Owens.

“No serious person can discuss what happened in this region without taking into account the eastward expansion of NATO, which occurred despite promises from our government officials not to do so after the reunification of Germany,” she wrote on the social network X.

Previously, Putin said that the West’s goal has always been to draw Ukraine into NATO, and the West’s promises of non-expansion of the alliance to the east did not materialize.

Also, former US Army Colonel Eugene Vindman expressed confidence that NATO will have to fight a strengthened Russia after the defeat of Ukraine.