US Ambassador Julie Smith on NATO and the Russia-Ukraine War

The Clinton Administration recognized in both practical and former ways that the Russians were expressing their concern and opposition to NATO enlargement. And the NATO-Russia Founding Act did lead to a formal consultation process with Russia over issues like positioning of troops in new NATO countries. The succeeding Cheney-Bush Administration charged in with the arrogant “neoconservative” militarism and made it blatantly clear to the Russian government, then run by Vladimir Putin, that they didn’t much give a flip what the Russians thought about anything the US decided to do.

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