wanted the war either way. it s clear what happened, which is that, you know, from in beginning, we promised 1992, the russian leadership said we will move as well as gorbachev said when when, when the soviet union, he was getting ready to dismantle the soviet union. and henion, he ady to d said we re going to allow you we re going to withdraw 400,000 troops fromo europe, from east germany, and we re goinm g to allow you to reunite germany under nato s hostile army. i see concession for that one commitment. we want what the russian ws is that you will not move nato to the east. james baker, who is undersecretary of state under bush ker, sec, famously promised we will not move nato one inch to the east. well, since then we ve in 1000 miles and 14 countries now, wei. started that plan in 1997. bill perry, who was the secretary of defense under clinton, said to the clinton administration, if you mov1997,e