Ратификация первого расширения НАТО на Восток в 1997 сопровождалось дебатами в Сенате.
Скептицизм высказывал Paul Wellstone из Миннесоты (сын иммигрантов из Украины по фамилии Векселштейн, не без президентских амбиций). Он ссылался на 93-летнего Джорджа Кеннана, который категорически рекомендовал этого не делать.
"The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era. Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking. Russians are little impressed with American assurances that it reflects no hostile intentions. They would see their prestige (always uppermost in the Russian mind) and their security interests as adversely affected. They
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Ратификация первого расширения НАТО на Восток в 1997 сопровождалось дебатами в Сенате.
Скептицизм высказывал Paul Wellstone из Миннесоты (сын иммигрантов из Украины по фамилии Векселштейн, не без президентских амбиций). Он ссылался на 93-летнего Джорджа Кеннана, который категорически рекомендовал этого не делать.
"The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking. Russians are little impressed with American assurances that it reflects no hostile intentions. They would see their prestige (always uppermost in the Russian mind) and their security interests as adversely affected. They ( ... )
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