“If Russia had decided to return to embrace a ultranationalist imperialisma Born enlarged and a growing European Union they would have strengthened the security of the continent“. The former President of the United States writes it bill clinton in an article published in The Atlantic magazine, from which the Corriere della Sera published a large excerpt, in which he explained the rationale behind the Atlantic Military Alliance’s eastward enlargement policy pursued during his tenure, which spanned most of the 1990s. “When I first entered the White House (1993, ed.), I said I would support the Russian President Boris Yeltsin in their efforts to build a thriving economy and a functioning democracy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but that I would also support an enlargement of NATO to include former Warsaw Pact members and postSoviet countries. (…) What worried me,” Clinton recalled, “wasn’t that Russia might embrace communism again, but that it might embrace ultranationalism again, replacing imperial ambitions for democracy and cooperation. I didn’t think Yeltsin would do such a thing, but who knew who would come after him?”.
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For this reason, he “retires towards the end of my second term, in 1999 PolandL’Hungary and the Czech Republic entered that Born despite the opposition of Russia. The alliance won 11 other members under successive presidents, again ignored Moscow’s objections. (…) The expansion of the Atlantic Alliance was certainly a momentous decision, which I still believe to be the right one. (…) I was deliberately that relations could get going again conflicted. But I felt that such a scenario would depend less on NATO and more on Russia’s development: would it remain a democracy? Who would he trust with his greatness in the 21st century? (…) I did everything I could claims the former president to help Russia make the right choice. In 1994, he recalls, “the United States, along with Russia and the United Kingdom, signed the Budapest Memorandum sovereignty and theterritorial integrity Ukraine in exchange for Kiev giving up what was then the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal. (…) In all, I have met with Yeltsin 18 times and with Putin five times, twice when he was Prime Minister of Yeltsin and three times in the ten months or more that his mandate coincided with mine. (…) The idea that we have ignored, disregarded or tried to isolate Russia Is it wrong“.
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“Now far from raising doubts about the wisdom of NATO expansion, Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, it shows that this policy was necessary‘ Clinton says. “It is clear that Putinian Russia would not have been a power content with the status quo had it not expanded. It wasn’t the immediate possibility of Ukraine joining NATO that prompted Putin to invade it twice, in 2014 and last February, but rather that movement of the country towards democracy, who threatened his autocratic power at home and his desire to control the precious assets of the Ukrainian underground. And it’s the strength of the Atlantic Alliance, and yours credible threat with defenses, which prevented Putin from threatening the countries that belong to him, from the Baltics to Eastern Europe. (…) Only a strong born stands between Putin and further aggression.