Finally, this should be at the top of this history: George Kennan, the father of the containment strategy which was US policy against the Soviet Union for 40 years, despairing at the U.S. determination to expand NATO under Clinton and later Bush and Obama. He said ‘we fought forty years against the Communists in Russia and these are the …
Finally, this should be at the top of this history: George Kennan, the father of the containment strategy which was US policy against the Soviet Union for 40 years, despairing at the U.S. determination to expand NATO under Clinton and later Bush and Obama. He said ‘we fought forty years against the Communists in Russia and these are the heroes who overthrew them. NATO expansion will drive the world further apart and end in war.’ Pretty smart guy. Solzhenitsyn, no friend of the Reds, said the same, as did Kissinger.
Finally, this should be at the top of this history: George Kennan, the father of the containment strategy which was US policy against the Soviet Union for 40 years, despairing at the U.S. determination to expand NATO under Clinton and later Bush and Obama. He said ‘we fought forty years against the Communists in Russia and these are the heroes who overthrew them. NATO expansion will drive the world further apart and end in war.’ Pretty smart guy. Solzhenitsyn, no friend of the Reds, said the same, as did Kissinger.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1895686431013556395