{"id":2258,"date":"2025-09-01T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:03:42","slug":"russia-couldve-joined-nato-in-1990s-how-europe-blocked-moscow-and-fueled-the-ukraine-war-apt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Russia Could&#8217;ve Joined NATO in 1990s | How Europe Blocked Moscow and Fueled the Ukraine War | APT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key take away&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the 1990s, U.S. President Bill Clinton proposed integrating Russia into NATO \u2014 a move that could have changed the course of history. Newly declassified documents reveal that while Clinton was supportive, European countries, led by Germany, blocked Russia\u2019s bid to protect NATO cohesion. Analysts argue this decision contributed to today\u2019s Ukraine War and the deepening East-West divide.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia Could&#039;ve Joined NATO in 1990s | How Europe Blocked Moscow and Fueled the Ukraine War | APT\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F31cI7CaNUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key take away&nbsp; In the 1990s, U.S. President Bill Clinton proposed integrating Russia into NATO \u2014 a move that could have changed the course of history. Newly declassified documents reveal that while Clinton was supportive, European countries, led by Germany, blocked Russia\u2019s bid to protect NATO cohesion. Analysts argue this decision contributed to today\u2019s Ukraine War and the deepening East-West divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}