During a recent policy conference in Europe attended by political and military participants from across NATO, speaker after speaker bemoaned decisions made in the 1990s and 2000s to bring post-Soviet states into the Transatlantic alliance. The tone of these remarks was “we couldn’t say no, but the world would now be better off if we had.” These expressions were also laced with remarks about Russia’s historical interest in Eastern Europe and its feelings of exclusion. The implication was that the “collective West” was the principal culprit in pushing the European constellation to the edge of the Ukrainian black hole. There …read more
Source: The American Interest
