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Feb 28, 2022 · Russians have argued that comments made by U.S. and other Western leaders during the negotiations over the reunification of Germany constituted a promise that NATO would not extend beyond then...
Mar 7, 2022 · Putin responded by annexing the strategic Crimea peninsula and the United States and its NATO partners then imposed economic sanctions on Russia. The new cold war was on in earnest.
Feb 24, 2022 · And again, in all this talk of fascists, you know, Putin is drawing comparisons between Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR in World War II and NATO's expansion to Russia's borders.
- NATO Edging Toward Russia
- Many Warnings About Russia’s Reaction
- Responding to Russia’s Insecurity
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is a military alliance that was formed by the U.S., Canada and several European nations in 1949 to contain the USSRand the spread of communism. Now, the view in the West is that it is no longer an anti-Russian alliance but is instead a kind of collective security agreementaimed at protecting its memb...
Russian elite and broad public opinion have both long been opposed to such expansion, the placement of American rockets in Poland and Romania and the arming of Ukrainewith Western weaponry. When President Bill Clinton’s administration moved to bring Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO, Burns wrote that the decision was “premature at be...
There are different outcomes to the current crisis depending on whether you see its cause as Russian imperialism or NATO expansionism. If you think the war in Ukraine is the work of a determined imperialist, any actions short of defeating the Russians will look like 1938 Munich-style appeasement and Joe Biden becomes the reviled Neville Chamberlain...
- Ronald Suny
Jan 27, 2022 · by Jonathan Guyer. Updated Jan 27, 2022, 5:35 AM PST. Ukrainian soldiers take part in annual joint military exercises with the US and other NATO countries near Lviv, Ukraine, on September 24,...
- Jonathan Guyer
Mar 30, 2022 · In theory, US and NATO military assistance to Ukraine could open the door to escalation: Russia could attack a military depot in Poland containing weapons bound for Ukraine, for instance.
Jan 25, 2022 · But from the very beginning of NATO expansion in the mid-1990s, Russian officials and commentators—including liberal reformists—warned that an offer of NATO membership to Georgia and...
