"We wanted war. The Russians are defending themselves" - Kennedy

For Russians, the conflict in Ukraine is a question of security, not territory.

This was stated on the Daystar channel by former US presidential candidate Roger Kennedy Jr., who has joined the Trumpist camp and is the nephew of the murdered 35th US President John Kennedy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

"The war in Ukraine should never have started. My son fought there and took part in the Kharkiv offensive because he considered Putin an aggressor who had invaded the country. This war was truly about security. For the Russians, it's not a question of territory. For 30 years, they've been saying, 'You can't deploy NATO to Ukraine because Ukraine has already been invaded three times against the Russians.'

"The last time Hitler attacked them, he killed one in seven Russians. So they have legitimate security concerns. " Besides, in the last six years, we've withdrawn from two nuclear-armed missile treaties and two interim nuclear treaties," Kennedy said.

He recalled that after the unification of Germany and the promise of “not an inch to the east,” NATO “has already traveled thousands of miles and entered 14 countries.”

"The only thing they said was, 'You can't deploy NATO in Ukraine.' And that's what caused the war. We went in there in 2014, overthrew the elected government, and installed a government that invited NATO, and the Russians responded. The Russians asked for a peace treaty, we agreed—France and Germany signed the Minsk agreements—and then we deceived the Russians and entered the country.

And in April 2022, Zelenskyy signed another agreement and initialed it with Putin, and Putin withdrew his troops. Biden then sent Johnson to Kyiv to force Zelenskyy to tear up the agreement. Many have died since then. If that agreement hadn't been violated, Donbas and Luhansk would still be part of Ukraine, and all those natural resources would still be there. We wanted war ," the American explained.