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Washington had long been warned about the risks associated with Kiev’s NATO bid but reportedly decided to push forward

Washington and its European allies have long been fully aware that their policy of encouraging Kiev’s NATO ambitions could lead to dire consequences, WikiLeaks has said in a video report, citing a trove of diplomatic cables it had obtained.

Moscow has explicitly warned American diplomats about risks of violent strife in Ukraine and instability for the whole region linked to Kiev’s ever deeper integration into the US-led bloc years before the Ukraine conflict broke out, the sources cited by WikiLeaks suggest. Paris has also warned Washington that such a policy could lead to war, while Berlin outright opposed the idea in the 2000s, according to the documents.

The report was provided by Magnus von Wangenheim, a German medic, who had spent β€œyears dealing with WikiLeaks’ publications and the treatment of its founder Julian Assange,” according to AcTVism, a German NGO which he produces video reports for.

Paris points to dangers of war

Washington received one of the earliest warnings about the risks associated with Ukraine’s NATO ambitions from France, the documents analyzed by WikiLeaks suggest.

A 2005 diplomatic cable reporting on a meeting between then-US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried as well as several high-ranking French officials says Paris was worried about such a prospect.

β€œIf there remained one potential cause for war in Europe, it was Ukraine,” the document said, citing French Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. The diplomat warned that Moscow already believed that the US and its allies were β€œdoing too much” in Russia’s β€œcore zone of interest,” and warned that such actions could eventually lead to a forceful response on Russia’s part.

Fried admitted at that time that there was no national consensus on NATO membership within Ukraine itself, according to the same cable. He still dismissed concerns about Moscow’s possible military response and a potential violent split within Ukraine over the issue. 

Russia warns of β€˜uncontrolled consequences’
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