By the time legendary foreign-policy sage George F. Kennan issued his unequivocal warning in 1997 -- "expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post-Cold War era" -- the expansion was already happening.
As Cockburn notes, "By 2014, the 12 new members had purchased close to $17 billion worth of American weapons."
If you think those weapons transactions were about keeping up with the Russians, you've been trusting way too much U.S. corporate media. "As of late 2020," Cockburn's book explains, NATO's collective military spending "had hit $1.03 trillion, or roughly 20 times Russia's military budget."
Let's leave the last words here to Bob Dylan, from another song that isn't on radio playlists. "Masters of War."
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
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