Doubled the amount of border territory russia would have with nato. so, they have not yet joined, they are applying probably in may or june. it will take another half a year or so to become full members. but, when that happens, instead of having 800 miles of border with nato, which is why it russia has today, it will have double that. this is what happens when you don t really think through your policies. and, as you rightly mentioned, using nato expansion as an excuse kind of seems to have backfired. yeah. i had a great interview with bill browder a few minutes ago, i was asking whether his new book was banned in russia. of course it is. he made it interesting comment to me, he said he couldn t get a publisher in germany either. he can t get a publisher intervening for his book that