This is true. A few years later, before 3B enlargement, so was I. Ask the people at state and the NSC at the time.
When you worry about Russian aggression and the security of your nation, you have to be. Otherwise you will be ignored or run over roughshod.
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Michael Weiss: A friend and former diplomat reminded me today that if this White House thinks Zelensky is pushy, they should have seen Walesa and Havel with Clinton in the 90s when Poland and the Czech Republic felt their window for NATO membership was closing…
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