Vasilisa Wrote:Yes, at the beginning of the two thousandth, Russia went to meet the West, and what happened?
I think the two ideologies - communism/authoritarianism vs democracy - are just incompatible with one another, and that's understandable.
The West wants Russia to democratize, and that seems about as likely to happen (back then & now) as hell freezing over... but then again, that's what they said about the Berlin wall...
There was also no reason for NATO to exist after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, since NATO was established because of the Cold War. Not dissolving NATO might have been the West's mistake perhaps, but I get the feeling many people in Europe are sleeping soundly at night these days because they belong to a NATO country. And who knows what credible intel they had back then to make them decide against NATO's dissolution.