Status Updates From Not One Inch: America, Russ...

"A group of private citizens formed the US Committee to Expand NATO to push for [Czech] ratification; the head was Bruce Jackson, a vice president at Lockheed Martin. A Raytheon spokesman said that the greater the need for new members to bring their equipment and infrastructure in compliance with NATO standards, the more it 'benefits US military contractors'."

The US did all it could to support Yeltsin despite his political weakness and lack of legitimacy: "A US diplomat serving in the Moscow embassy at the time of the [1996] election, Thomas Graham, asserted that the Clinton administration knew the election was not truly fair, but it was a case of 'the ends justifying the means'."

"In what the Times called 'the clearest rejection to date of collective internationalism', a Pentagon strategy paper asserted bluntly that the US mission was not to cooperate with Russia but 'to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge'. A Ukrainian minister later asserted that, in 1992, an undersecretary at the State Department reached out to Kyiv's ambassador to urge Ukraine to seek NATO membership."

🚀 "When Gorbachev asked why Washingtin could 'find $100 billion for a regional war' in the Gulf, 'but none to make the Soviet Union a new country', Bush gave Moscow's nuclear arsenal as the reason: 'we feel the missiles aimed at New York'."

Thatcher was apparently opposed to NATO enlargement? Textbook broken clock

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