Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived many old tropes about NATO’s successive enlargements in Eastern Europe. Critics allege that expanding NATO was provocative and humiliated Russia. Bringing Eastern Europeans into the fold also supposedly broke earlier pledges given to Soviet and Russian leadership by the George H.W. Bush administration.
Shay Khatiri is a vice president and senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute. He writes the Substack newsletter, the Russian-Iran File.
Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
