Berlin Quote by Noam Chomsky

Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going…

— Noam Chomsky

I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

NATO expansion, E.U. expansion, and turning Ukraine and Georgia and other countries into liberal democracies were all about creating a giant zone of peace…

— 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

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

— Jeremy Corbyn

We stand firmly behind the decision made at the summit in Bucharest where it was decided that Ukraine could one day become a member…

— Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Russia wants stability along its Western borders, neighbors who treat their Russian minorities with respect and prosperous trading partners. NATO enlargement promotes such developments.

— Antony Blinken

In the eyes of Russian leaders, E.U. expansion is a stalking horse for NATO expansion.

— John Mearsheimer

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

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a…

— James Mattis

[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite a concession,…

— Noam Chomsky

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski