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Angela Merkel, in her book, explains why she blocked Ukraine's accession to NATO, citing fears of Russian aggression.

The arms industry spearheaded the lobbying for NATO’s eastward enlargement starting in the 1990s. Joe Biden has been a staunch neocon from the start, first as Senator, then as Vice President ...

NATO enlargement to include Ukraine will entail some risk that Putin will test our resolve, so the existing bilateral assurances that most NATO countries signed with Ukraine this year should be ...

EU’s new top diplomat Kallas strong on Russia-China axis, struggles on Middle East ...

Cyprus is getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, and to this end the country is discussing ...

the EU and NATO enlargement processes in the Western Balkans, as well as visa liberalizations, free-trade deals, and countless summits. Now out of the “Brussels bubble,” but still looking in ...

Former Trump advisors have articulated such a plan and repeated Russia’s narrative of NATO enlargement triggering the war. Other former Trump officials have proposed more robust support for ...