Putin has claimed that NATO, with its strangulating expansion, has been his goad. Likewise, American critics of NATO expansion, myself included, have long warned that relying on this Cold War-era anti-Moscow combine for security is like having an insurance policy that starts fires. But maybe we were giving NATO too much credit. What has emerged during this crisis, and what Romney and his ilk entirely miss, is that the organization is itself being left behind by history.
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