Tangled tale of NATO expansion at the heart of Ukraine crisis -- Secret History -- Sott.net

The end of the Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Soviet Union two years later presented the United States with a choice: triumphalism or reconciliation. There was hope of a "peace dividend" because the fortune...

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