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no bull and the aftermath.

The Norwegians understood that the cost per inch of NATO expansion as measured in units

of damage to Western relations with Russia, the cost per inch went up the closer you got

to Moscow.

And so Norway knew that its membership in NATO was different in many ways than say a Spain's

membership in NATO.

So the Norwegians cognizant of that cost per inch had decided to negotiate special terms,

right?

No nuclear weapons on their territory and the courts, no foreign troops and peace.

That I think should have been a model for central New Stream Europe and for the Baltics,

and that could have been implemented through the partnership with peace.

But instead, and this again is partly because of Yeltsin's choices, in particular in

days of Chechnya, which causes everyone to say, oh, wait a minute, okay, now maybe Russia

is in all that different.

Clinton changes his mind.

Having said, I don't want to draw a new line across Europe, he changed his mind, he

marginalizes the partnership with peace, and he decides to go with all or nothing, article

five or nothing expansion.

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