In its current confrontation with Russia, the United States and its allies are defending a dangerously anachronistic principle; that all of Russia's European neighbors should be free to seek NATO membership and that NATO should be free to incorporate them.thehill.com/opinion/nation…
the US has already extended security guarantees to 6 former Warsaw Pact states and 3 former Soviet republics. Now it is insiting that 6 remaining former Soviet republics,4 of which border directly on Russia, should be similarly free to apply and be considered
For many years Russia could do little about it. That has changed. Putin has repeatedly demonstrated that Russia is capable and willing to use armed force to prevent further NATO encroachment on its borders. This is one reason why NATO’s open-door policy is an anachronism.
The other reason is the primacy accorded to the Chinese challenge by three successive American administrations. Commitments in Europe and the Middle East were supposed to be stabilized if not reduced in favor of rebalancing toward Asia.thehill.com/opinion/nation…
The dangers generated by NATO's open-door policy are directed at those who take the U.S. and its allies at their word. In 2008, NATO leaders promised Georgia and Ukraine that they would one day become NATO members. thehill.com/opinion/nation…
It's now 13 years later. Russia has invaded both countries and seized their territory either for itself or for Russian proxy regimes, leaving Ukraine and Georgia further from NATO membership than ever.thehill.com/opinion/nation…
Becoming a NATO member in waiting on the border of Russia leaves the aspirant in a most vulnerable position, provoking Moscow without committing NATO.thehill.com/opinion/nation…
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