This is still what drives politics today. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/History_of_NATO_enlargement.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki

This is still what drives politics today. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/History_of_NATO_enlargement.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/History_... You have to get pretty creative to explain why the US are sprinkling missile interceptors ever closer to Russian soil without considering "mad power drive".