Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Twitter community adds a context note to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr tweet:  The official Twitter account for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr tweeted, “In 2019 actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky ran as the peace candidate winning the Ukrainian presidency with 70% of the vote. As Benjamin Abelow observes in his brilliant book, 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine,' Zelensky almost certainly could have avoided the 2022 war with Russia simply by uttering five words — 'I will not join NATO.' But pressured by NeoCons in the Biden White House, and by violent fascist elements within the Ukrainian government, Zelensky integrated his army with NATO’s and allowed the U.S. to place nuclear-capable Aegis missile launchers along Ukraine’s 1,200-mile border with Russia. These were provocations that senior U.S. diplomats like post-WWII foreign policy architect George Kennan, former U.S. Defense Secretary Bill Perry, and former U.S. ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock had long described as 'red lines' for Russian leadership. Let’s face it, the Neocons wanted this war with Russia, just as they wanted war with Iraq. Listen here to NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark describe how White House Neocons justified the Iraq invasion: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FNt7s_Wed_4." Twitter added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know.” The added context read "The US has not given Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense Systems to Ukraine. The only two Aegis Ashore systems deployed to Europe are located in Poland and Romania politico.com/news/2022/10/1… The US has previously offered inspections to Russia to show the two Aegis Ashore's solely defensive purpose news.usni.org/2022/02/02/u-s…" The label is part of Twitter’s Community Notes system. Twitter users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to tweets.

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