I think the arguments against NATO’s eastward expansion are fairly persuasive except for the fact they never wrestle with the fact that the countries at issue - Poland, the Baltics, etc *desperately wanted* to join NATO, and strenuously lobbied to do so.
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There’s also the whole Clinton/Yeltsin discussion about *Russia* joining NATO which Putin himself raised recently. Ah the world of counterfactuals and ‘imagine if’
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Peter Conradi is very good on this. Lord Robertson, who met with Putin often in the early 2000s, says Putin wanted Russia to *join* NATO, possibly in the hope that it would evolve into a general European security structure, with less need of a US role.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule …
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Who Lost Russia is a great book.
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