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Yawn. The KGB fucks has proven that taking Eastern Europe under NATO wing was absolute necessary because they planned to close the technology gap, make the West dependent on their energy exports* and then re-take what they considered to be "theirs". The West's error was not expansion of NATO but rather pausing it in 2007. Had Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova been admitted then there would be no wars, because KGB fucks woud have no openings. The whole "we're not USSR anymore, we're free and democratic Russia, open to the world" was simply the means to that war-preparation end. They modernized their military equipment using American, German and French technology and built a huge cash pile from energy sales while the KGB's maintained total grip on power under the Potemkin facade of "demokracey".
Cucking harder to KGB fucks brings war, not peace. Reagan knew that, his predecessors and successors - not so much.

*) It almost worked as German political class has completely sold itself out to the point there was a revolving door between German government and Gazprom. Incidentally it was Merkel who blocked admision of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO back in 2007.