Europe Quote by Vladimir Putin

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they…

— John Mearsheimer

“The purpose of the NATO alliance is "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

— Lord Ismay

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

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the…

— Vladimir Putin

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to…

— Malcolm Nance

NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from…

— Noam Chomsky

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

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done…

— Barney Frank

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

— Noam Chomsky

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

— Vladimir Putin

For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was…

— Noam Chomsky

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are…

— Slobodan Milosevic