https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s... He tried it 20 years ago but it didn't happen. Anyhow there was a thread yesterday based on a paper by an academic on how losing Ukraine is the West's fault (in a purely pragmatic sense, not as a moral judgment). Russia wanted closer ties to the West, then the Color Revolutions happened, then 2008, then 2014, and now we're here.