01.01.2026
The U.S. Pursuit of NATO Expansion to Russia’s Borders: Motivation and Timing
While NATO’s expansion to Central Europe might have had some realpolitik merit, and it did limited damage to Russian interests and thus to international stability, NATO’s expansion to the Baltics, Ukraine, and Georgia was different, in that it did serious harm to Russia’s security and vital identitarian interests.
Dylan Payne Royce
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