The Tipping Point ретвитнул

Former US Secretary of Defence and CIA Director Robert Gates on the failure of considering Russian security concerns:
- "When Russia was weak in the 1990s and beyond, we did not take Russian interests seriously. We did a poor job of seeing the world from their point of view, and of managing the relationship for the long term…. The relationship with Russia had been badly mismanaged after Bush 41 left office in 1993. Getting Gorbachev to acquiesce to a unified Germany as a member of NATO had been a huge accomplishment. But moving so quickly after the collapse of the Soviet Union to incorporate so many of its formerly subjugated states into NATO was a mistake…. Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching"

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