Word: nato
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...happen over the next five to 10 years, he predicts. That is not the way it looks from Moscow. "The Baltic republics are strictly off the table," says Dmitri Trenin, a defense expert at the Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "That door is closed. If NATO tries to open it, even a little bit, there will be trouble...
Washington insists it is undeterred. "The Russians say they are not prepared to live with any of the former Soviet republics inside NATO," notes an Administration official. "Russia will have to get over that." If Russia does not get over it, though, the result could be precisely the European instability that the expansion of NATO was intended to lock away in the trophy case of history...
Clinton Administration officials will soon fan out across the U.S. to convince Americans that NATO should be expanded. But left out of the sales pitch will be the fact that the President's proposal was one his aides fought over bitterly in the beginning...
...idea was first planted with Clinton in April 1993 during a Washington ceremony to open the Holocaust Museum. With time on their hands before the speechmaking, Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, the Presidents of the Czech Republic and Poland, cornered Clinton to urge that NATO admit East European countries. Havel and Walesa had got nowhere with George Bush on the idea, but Clinton, in office only three months, was intrigued...
...Christopher's top Russia expert and now Deputy Secretary of State, feared that a rush to admit new members would anger Moscow. After months of wrangling, the advisers agreed to proceed cautiously, and Clinton announced in a Prague speech in January 1994 that the question was no longer if NATO would expand but when...