How NATO expansion happened in the '90s

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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NATO expansion in the '90s. U.S. Defense Secretary Les Aspin asked in 1993: "How do you deal with the question of membership?" Ultimately, the Clinton administration's answer to that question may have had more to do with domestic politics than international alliances. Mary Elise Sarotte and Charles Kupchan join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:23.1	A Europe undivided and democratic must be a secure Europe.
0:27.4	NATO is a bedrock of Europe's security
0:30.2	and the tide that binds the United States to that security.
0:36.1	March 1997.
0:38.5	President Bill Clinton met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin
0:42.1	in Helsinki, Finland.
0:44.4	The two men sat side by side, announcing agreement
0:47.5	on a surprising array of security and economic issues.
0:51.7	But there was one issue they could not put to rest.
0:55.4	Clinton's support for the Eastward expansion of NATO
0:58.8	into former Soviet states.
1:01.4	At the summit, Clinton turned to his left
1:04.4	and looked directly at Yeltsin, a mere two feet away,
1:08.7	as the Russian president said.
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