Stop the Insanity: Halt NATO Enlargement to Salvage Relat...
Wade, Paul E.
Russia's historic themes of invasion, expansion of the empire, and backwardness make Russians naturally suspicious of any foreign military alliance on their doorstep. The demise of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union in the 1990's left Russians with a country smaller than that ruled by Peter the Great 300 years earlier. More recently, the 2004 round of NATO enlargement dealt Russia another blow by including the Baltic nations, all former Sovi...