Concur with @KofmanMichael on this, and contributions of @JimGoldgeier, @BrunoTertrais & @shifrinson on this. The history matters. We are dealing with the fallout of narratives from the 1990s and early 2000s. 1/
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1475833461604855815
@KofmanMichael @JimGoldgeier @BrunoTertrais @shifrinson If I (#NickGvosdev, in personal capacity here) may quote two things from a piece that appeared in sister journal @TheNatlInterest ... "Even as Central European states explicitly (and understandably) sought protection from a revanchist Russia, ... 2/
@KofmanMichael @JimGoldgeier @BrunoTertrais @shifrinson @TheNatlInterest existing Western European NATO members could marshal political support to admit them to the alliance only if such a threat didn’t exist." AND " ... it was very difficult to find a level of allied commitment that would not be seen as too threatening to Russia while reassuring 3/
@KofmanMichael @JimGoldgeier @BrunoTertrais @shifrinson @TheNatlInterest eastern NATO members that their Western European and American partners took their security concerns seriously." AND, finally, from the domestic U.S. perspective, enlargement was supposed to "add to the number of NATO members who would take on more of the burdens ... 4/
@KofmanMichael @JimGoldgeier @BrunoTertrais @shifrinson @TheNatlInterest both for European defense but also for global security." This is what we are now trying to navigate through, once Russia has made it clear it plans to be non-compliant in helping us thread the needle. END nationalinterest.org/feature/don%E2…
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