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5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition

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Nato Expansion - The Most Profound Strategic Blunder Since the End of the Cold War

Nato expansion was the most profound strategic blunder since the end of the cold war. Nothing like admitting poland and the baltics tonado to transform it from a motley bunch of pacifist nations that spend nothing on their militaries to a real alliance again. So ask even erect mechonism, stephen on american democracy. And on the wise men, the wise men and women, we should say, does this event settle a debate that's been taking place in foreign policy circles for two decades? We are turning our backs on the very people, democrats in russia, who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that soviet regime.

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