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    Russia saber rattling gets the West talking. Is a deal with NATO next?

    by Fred Weir Dec 13, 2021 4 minutes

    NATO’s ongoing expansion into Eastern Europe and former Soviet lands has been a bitter issue for Moscow for almost 30 years.

    The Kremlin has watched all the former Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies and three former Soviet republics join NATO, while the front line between NATO and Russia has moved about 600 miles to the east. The Russians claim, with considerable evidence, that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given strong verbal assurances that NATO would move “not one inch” eastward.

    Now, Vladimir Putin seems to believe that it’s finally time to get that in writing.

    No one in Moscow seems able to explain why Mr. Putin has.

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