Senior Fellow at RAND Corporation. Formerly U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, among other diplomatic postings
Feb 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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
