Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The thinking behind exclusion has a distinct cold war slant, reflecting the 40-year period during which U.S. geostrategy ignored events and concerns outside the life-and-death struggle between the West and Moscow. In the past it was Russia's strength that drove U.S. policy; today it is Boris...
For their part, the Central Europeans' primary motivation for NATO membership has little to do with the possibility of Russian troops swarming to reannex them. "It's not to defend against a Russian attack," explains former Polish Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz. "We see that as a virtual impossibility. The key...
To be sure, the expansion of NATO is no trifling matter. Extending the free world's nuclear umbrella should never be undertaken idly. But leaving Central Europe in the cold would be an inexcusable folly. Refusing to help these democracies could eventually raise a question as real as the question...
For those watching from beyond Russia's borders, Zhirinovsky's improbable but disquieting suggestions of "new Hiroshimas" and "Chernobyls" were enough to force a swift rethink of strategy. Last week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in...
Clinton, who hopes to complete his consultations with Cabinet members before Christmas for the 1995 budget, is so desperate for money that one half expects to see him drilling for oil on the South Lawn. Panetta, playing the role of Dr. No, has already told the Cabinet that their initial...