[Salon] Declassified docs prove Clinton knew NATO expansion would lead to this

[Kelley Vlahos <vlahos@quincyinst.org>]

All - the National Security Archive has published recently declassified memos that show the Clinton team, including Anthony Lake and Dennis Ross, were actively warning that Russia already felt 'snookered' in 1995 and NATO expansion would lead to a breakdown of the relationship. Taste: 

“Russian opposition to NATO enlargement is unlikely to yield in the near or medium term to some kind of grudging endorsement; Russia’s opposition is deep and profound,” Lake wrote. “For the period ahead, the Russian leadership will do its level best to derail our policy, given its conviction that any eastward expansion of NATO is at root antithetical to Russia’s long-term interests.”

We got more of this at RS right now: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-russia-nato/

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Kelley

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