Cold Quote by John Mearsheimer

NATO was formed post-World War II. We're a little bit more than a half-century old. Do we want NATO to go on for another…

— Michael T. Flynn

Both NATO and the American alliance structure in Northeast Asia are institutions with deep roots that helped win a spectacular victory in the Cold…

— John Mearsheimer

Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -…

— Tom Malinowski

Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand…

— John Mearsheimer

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a…

— Martin Jacques

Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not consider the…

— Robert M. Gates

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact;…

— Jeremy Corbyn

The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since…

— Anne Applebaum

For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland's solidarity…

— Daniel Fried

The Russians have intensely disliked but tolerated substantial NATO expansion, including the accession of Poland and the Baltic countries. But when NATO announced in…

— John Mearsheimer

If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider that categorically…

— John Mearsheimer

Russia's invasion of Georgia in August 2008 should have dispelled any remaining doubts about Putin's determination to prevent Georgia and Ukraine from joining NATO.

— John Mearsheimer