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NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard (2017)
- ethbr1 2y agoTo be fair, NATO didn't accept any states between East Germany (1990) and Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland (99). During that time Russia had a failed coup (91), Yugoslavia had crumbled and devolved into war (92-95), Russia had fought one Chechen war (94-96) and was in the middle of another, state assets had been sold to form the oligarchy (95), and Putin had just inherited power. It's not unreasonable to think the 1990 plan was to incorporate Russia into Europe, and by 1999 that was revealed as unreasonable.
- protomolecule 2y agoTo be fair: "Debate within the American government as to whether enlargement of NATO was feasible or desirable began during the George H.W. Bush administration. By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen Euro-American hegemony. [0] Meanwhile: "NATO Expansion: What Yeltsin Heard" [1] >It's not unreasonable to think the 1990 plan was to incorporate Russia into Europe Was it? See the New York Times 1992 article "Excerpts From Pentagon's Plan: 'Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New Rival'" [2]. "Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. " [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Visegr%C3%A1d_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Visegr%C3%... [1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2018-03-16/nato-expansion-what-yeltsin-heard https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2018... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/excerpts-from-pentagon-s-plan-prevent-the-re-emergence-of-a-new-rival.html https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/excerpts-from-penta...