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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 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...
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.
Mar 7, 2022 · The U.S. and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War. It’s Not ‘Siding With Putin’ to Admit It. But Moscow’s cruel overreaction deserves emphatic condemnation. March 7, 2022 • Commentary. By Ted...
- 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
Mar 3, 2022 · America did this knowing (1) that there was a high risk that Putin would defend his conception of Russia’s interests in Ukraine militarily, (2) that the U.S. was not willing to expend...
Feb 24, 2022 · Ukraine is not a member of NATO, though the international security alliance has been a key player in its ongoing conflict with Russia, which escalated to a full-scale invasion by Russian forces Thursday.
