The Alliance Is Too Big—and Too Provocative—for Its Own Good

Moscow insists that its demand for halting NATO expansionism is inviolable. Washington insists on rejecting that. The gap in diplomacy is becoming a dangerous abyss.

While these comprehensive peace agreements with Russia and China would not be without challenges, they would provide an unprecedented opportunity for Biden to secure his presidential legacy as a transformational peace president while also serving to safeguard vital U.S. national security interests.

The idea that the Soviet Union was tricked in 1989-90 is at the heart of Russia’s confrontation with the west

Washington’s insistence on digging in over NATO expansion and pushing sanctions is setting up a major disaster for both sides.

The origins of the current Russian demands to halt Nato’s expansion eastwards go right back to just before the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Mikhail Gorbachev was negotiating with German chancellor Helmut Kohl on the reunification of Germany in the course of which the Communist Party general secretary was promised by multiple Western leaders, as well as US Secretary of State James Baker, that Nato would expand “not one inch” to the east.

The alliance should affirm it has no plan to accept Kyiv’s membership bid, in return for a drawdown of Moscow’s forces

Russian and US foreign ministries on Monday, it is helpful to read; and if that is unavailing, to ask official sources in a position to know if and when they are talkative. Actions talk louder than words, especially in war. It is intelligent to be patient and wait.

The Biden regime has blown the future

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow.