'In his memoir, #TheBackChannel, #WilliamBurns wrote “sitting at the embassy in Moscow in the mid-nineties, it seemed to me that NATO expansion was premature at best and needlessly provocative at worst.” And then in 1995, Burns wrote a memo saying, “Hostility to early #NATO expansion is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.” He’s talking about #Russia. ' https://www.democracynow.orgv/2022/3/11/andrew_bacevich_iraq_connection_russian_invasion
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