Clinton's NATO Dilemma

Significant historical insights into the U.S. strategic decisions post-Cold War.

And so the idea of NATO enlargement is worked out in 1993. And there's bureaucratic opposition inside by smart diplomats who say, why are we doing this? The Cold War is over. But to the deep state, the Cold War was not over. It was just revving up because we got to get rid of Russia in its current form as well. So by the beginning of 1994, President Clinton already in a speech in January 1994 endorses the eastward expansion of NATO. And if I could just put a parenthesis around that, the US had promised unequivocally to the Soviet Union in the context of German reunification as of February 1990 that NATO would not move one inch eastward.