![]() Expanding a Cold War alliance to Russia’s border was not the best nor the only way to build a post–Cold War security architecture in Europe-a case I made at length in these pages last March. This view acknowledges that NATO expansion poisoned the well for U.S.-Russia relations and that Russia understandably saw it (well before Putin came on the scene-indeed, as far back as the early 1990s, as recently declassified documents demonstrate) as a hostile move, even a threatening one, which Russian leaders also regarded as unnecessary. ![]() There is a third way between the stylized contrast with which I began. After a year of enormous violence and destruction, we need a far more nuanced understanding of the war-its causes, how it might be ended, and the challenges that will remain once it is over. The trouble with this impasse is that each camp makes blame for the war an all or nothing affair. ![]() ![]() On February 24, 2022, there was no chance that Ukraine would enter NATO any time soon, if ever. ![]()
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