Description:
Ray McGovern tells Glenn Diesen that the Helsinki Accords, the 1990 Charter of Paris, and the OSCE were meant to give Europe security without dividing lines, and that NATO expansion punched a hole through that. He says George Kennan and Jack Matlock warned Bill Clinton that the first round of enlargement would break Russian trust, and that Clinton went ahead anyway.
He argues the war in Ukraine was provoked, that Russia was written out of Europe's security institutions, and that the arms-control treaties, starting with the ABM treaty, then fell away. A new European security architecture, he says, is what it takes to end the war. He cites Jens Stoltenberg telling the European Parliament that Russia offered a treaty barring Ukraine from NATO as the condition for not invading.
He argues the war in Ukraine was provoked, that Russia was written out of Europe's security institutions, and that the arms-control treaties, starting with the ABM treaty, then fell away. A new European security architecture, he says, is what it takes to end the war. He cites Jens Stoltenberg telling the European Parliament that Russia offered a treaty barring Ukraine from NATO as the condition for not invading.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction to Ray McGovern and Cold War insights
00:02:36 Reflections on the end of the Cold War
00:12:09 The broken promises of NATO expansion
00:23:49 The Ukraine crisis: causes and consequences
00:31:33 The need for a new European security architecture
00:37:40 The role of NATO and the deep state
00:48:39 Conclusion and final thoughts