This is something the western mainstream media should be telling you.
But they won't.
Back in 2008, former US Senator Bill Bradley called NATO’s expansion a colossal blunder, warning that the West had broken its promises to Gorbachev.
He saw the disaster unfolding long before others were willing to admit the risks: escalating tensions, deepening mistrust, and a never-ending cycle of hostility with Russia.
The warnings were there.
The consequences were foreseeable.
Yet the people steering the policy pressed ahead regardless.
Now we’re living with the fallout of decisions that helped fuel the very confrontation they should have been trying to prevent.