The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in order to protect against an alleged Soviet threat to Western Europe. With cessation of the USSR in 1991 all raison d’etre for NATO vanished. Yet for some reason NATO not only persisted but expanded.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin he requested of United States President Bill Clinton in 2000 that Moscow be allowed to join the NATO alliance. Putin claims Clinton merely laughed at him.
Instead, despite repeated assurances from American officials, NATO extended again and again until it had encroached most of Eastern Europe, setting the course for events in Ukraine we witness today.
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