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I wonder what that rush was to bring Eastern Europe into NATO. Both Clinton and Bush ("W") pushed hard to bring the former eastern block countries into NATO knowing full well that Russia would never be invited to join and, more to the point, that Russia would see this as an aggressive stance.
Add to this, the fact that the IMF (and by extension the State Department) worked hard to destabilize the Russian economy during Yeltsin's time in power. Instead of pushing for democracy and something like Scandinavian socialism, the push was for an increasingly neoliberal economy of open markets at any cost. That cost was the very birth of democracy in Russia. It lead to Yeltsin attacking Russia's parliament, it lead to the war in Chechnya and it ultimately lead to Putin.
As usual we reap what we sow.
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