quotThere was even discussion around that time that Russia might one day join NATOquot

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Part 3: NYT's David Sanger talks about what his latest book New Cold Wars: New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West. • This is an excerpt of his discussion on the USSC Briefing Room podcast. Listen to the full discussion here: • YouTube: • New Cold Wars with NYT’s David Sanger • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BUb... • USSC: https://www.ussc.edu.au/podcasts/ussc... • TRANSCRIPT • During the course of the float down the river Putin talked about Russia eventually joining the European Union. And there was even discussion around that time that Russia might one day join NATO, the alliance that was created to go contain the old Soviet Union. This was mind blowing stuff. It also turned out to be something that didn't happen. While Putin may have believed it in 2002, by 2007, he was already warning that Russia had been stripped of territories that really belonged and that he gave a fiery speech, at the Munich Security Conference that Bob Gates, then the secretary of defense, had to stand up and respond to by saying, I've already been through one cold war. He had been CIA chief during that time. I'm not really eager to enter into another.

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