Also in 1997, an open letter signed by former President Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan, and 50 important foreign policy establishment leaders, warned in part, “The current U.S.-led effort to expand NATO … is a policy error of historic proportions. We believe that NATO expansion will decrease allied security and unsettle European stability.” They warned that expansion would strengthen Russian hardliners and marginalize the democrats, provoke their reevaluation of the post-Cold War settlement, galvanize resistance to signing important nu- clear treaties, and spread instability and fear throughout Europe by moving the line, but ex- cluding for the time being many smaller countries who would be threatened by the Russian reaction. They also warned that NATO’s primary defensive mission would be diminished and that many of the nations in question had open issues with their borders and national minorities.
– Scott Horton, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
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