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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
I have seen it on the State TV in somewhat 2001. I can't unsee what has been seen. And yes, that's 100% true. Perhaps it's somewhere on yourtube today. Putin was so frickin' pro-American. So Russia could become a NATO member, much stronger and much more reliable than Turkey, Spain, Italy or anything else...
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Ras-Putin wasnt first who proposed it. Actually that discussion was going on (sometimes) in 90s. it was proposed by some people and voices on both sides after communism ended...It was rejected by hard heads on both sides I think. And it's not a surprise to me for sure. Russia & Nato countries have and had different geopolitical interests, and different type of governments. Russians always like to do things "their way" inside their borders and with their policies. Kind of Impossible to find compromise IMO, but well.. Turkey is also part of NATO...
In 1990, while negotiating German reunification at the end of the Cold War with United States Secretary of State James Baker, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said that "You say that NATO is not directed against us, that it is simply a security structure that is adapting to new realities ... therefore, we propose to join NATO." However, Baker dismissed the possibility as a "dream".[118]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%E...a_joining_NATO