Washington Post recently hosted an editorial about Russia's conception of Europe, written by Ronald D. Asmus, a former deputy assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton administration. Mr. Asmus was also a U.S. negotiator during the 1999 Istanbul Charter of the OSCE.
An excerpt:
"But the enlargement of NATO and the European Union were not some geopolitical gambit by the West to humiliate Russia. It was our response to the affected countries' legitimate wish to undo an artificial separation and become part of the West to secure a democratic peace."
The full article can be read here.
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