Episode 43: Sarotte on the Post-Cold War Stalemate
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Is There a Native Expansion?
The book describes how nato expansion interacted with other pressures on the young, fragile, nascent russian democracy. The author argues that in thi this punctuational moment, or ordering moment, of the end of the cold war, of soviet collapse, there were multiple time lines towards the future. But once you start to have this unfortunate interaction between the american choices and the russia choices, you start to tend towards the time line where vladim putten becomes president of russia.
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