moving on us. They did this in the Balkans. They had no interest in the Balkans. What do they care about Kosovo? They're not in Kosovo for moral reasons. We may have been. I still don't know why Clinton is doing that. But the Russians read it, had to read it, had to read the worst case scenario. They're going to be building up an line to our west. And here in the southwestern portion, they built it. And that was the time that Putin emerged. And he had a very different view than Gorbachev had. Gorbachev had a view of Antonto with the west. Putin had a view that this was the preface to war with him. Or that it was going to come up to it, that we just moved the line east. And he then had a long-term strategy of blocking the Americans. So when you look at it, we saw ourselves in a position of consolidating Eastern Europe, Western, former Eastern Europe. He saw that consolidation as a threat. NATO, that part, fell apart. It no longer resisted. The European countries were direct. The (27/44)
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