NATO came to Russia’s doorstep to make a point
. The point was that NATO could meet there, and Russia could not invade there, precisely because NATO got there first.
In January 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev authorized the Soviet armed forces to forcibly suppress pro-independence and democracy protests in Vilnius, killing about a dozen people. Moscow’s imperial death rattle in Vilnius is known there as Bloody Sunday. Since the invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the concurrent and enduring occupation of eastern Ukraine and then the full-scale invasion of 2022, there have been voices that have wanted to blame NATO for Vladimir Putin’s aggression. NATO was “barking at Russia’s door” in the phrasing, for example, of Pope Francis.Article content
Yet NATO got there first, admitting the Baltic states in 2004, after expanding in 1999 to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The Baltic States knew that without NATO membership they were more vulnerable to Russian aggression, not less. Ukraine learned that lesson in the most painful way possible.
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