CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 4, 2024 14:03:00
Nato's 2008 bucharest declaration was a disaster. dangling nato membership in front of ukraine and georgia without actually setting them on a course to get it. it was enough to enrage putin, but not enough to actually protect those two countries. and yet as time has passed, i've wondered what europe would look like with no nato expansion. the reality is that the vast majority of the countries that were part of the soviet sphere and many that were in the soviet union itself, were utterly traumatized by that experience. it was an even greater trauma than having been dee neated in a war with russ...
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