(January 20, 2017 at 2:53 pm)abaris Wrote:(January 20, 2017 at 2:36 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Amazing how the Russians managed to win the cold war.
But don't forget that Putin didn't come from a void. He grew on the fertile soil NATO had created long before he came to power. By moving on Russia's borders. He may win this new cold war, but only because it didn't come from necessity but from creating a continuing purpose for the cold war vehicle called NATO.
The problem isn't NATO per se. It is the fact that the US tried to use its dominating position in NATO to use NATO as a vehicle to aggrandize its own influence in Eastern Europe. Left to tradition NATO allies NATO would likely not expand beyond its Cold War foot print, and remain a viable security arrangement as oppose to a tool of ill considered US self aggrandizement.
