If the Russian people had prevented this megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible to run their country for over 25 years, then NATO would not have expanded as much!
This fool of author is blaming NATO and not Putin the Terrible like he was a mouth piece of Putin the Terrible!
If more like minded countries are members of NATO, then the world would probably be a more peaceful place!
During the entire Cold War, Sweden and Finland remained neutral. Putin the Terrible made these two countries rethink and join NATO.
"Opinion: The tragedy of NATO expansion lies not in beginning it, but in never considering when and where it might end, argues former NATO official Michael Rühle."
"... European allies should also recognize that NATO’s enlargement process has become counterproductive [???]. Doubling NATO’s membership from 16 to 32 countries since the end of the Cold War ...
NATO’s expansion, based primarily on the right of all European states to freely choose their alliances, was successful as long as the interests of key actors, including Russia, could be reasonably balanced.
Consequently, in 1997, NATO agreed with Russia on key principles of their cooperation, even before officially inviting Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary to join the alliance. These three states were admitted to NATO in 1999, followed by seven more Central and Eastern European states, including the three Baltic republics, in 2004. ...
NATO’s geopolitical sin [???] occurred in 2008, when the allies declared that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members.” ..."
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