In a recent essay in The National Review, James Kirchick argues that the recent downturn in U.S.-Russian relations stems not from “NATO enlargement, nor American foreign policy…but Russian revanchism and revisionism.” Echoing several other analysts over the last two decades, Kirchick particularly attacks the idea that Western violations of a 1990 NATO non-expansion pledge contributed to U.S.-Russian tensions. claiming there is “no evidence of a promise not to enlarge NATO, because such a promise was never made.” Indeed, as he subsequently elaborated (also in The National Review), there is not “a single treaty, accord, or other published document in which this alleged ‘promise' was made.”
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