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Clinton actively promoted the expansion of NATO to the east, over the objections of Russia. Russia wanted to maintain some degree of control over its former satellites, and they wanted true independence. The NATO expansion was a political decision. An expanded NATO gave full play to political functions aimed at merging East European nations into NATO and bringing about their transformation into Western-style political and economic systems. NATO members will continue to work toward containing Russia if it fails to integrate itself into the West and returns to its traditional expansionist practices. The Russian transformation and NATO's adjustment influenced each other.
Clinton actively promoted the expansion of NATO to the east, over the objections of Russia. Russia wanted to maintain some degree of control over its former satellites, and they wanted true independence. The NATO expansion was a political decision. An expanded NATO gave full play to political functions aimed at merging East European nations into NATO and bringing about their transformation into Western-style political and economic systems. NATO members will continue to work toward containing Russia if it fails to integrate itself into the West and returns to its traditional expansionist practices. The Russian transformation and NATO's adjustment influenced each other.
====Russia and Ukraine====
[[President Richard Nixon]] sent Clinton a letter on March 21, 1994 after returning from a secret fact finding mission for Clinton to [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Germany]] and [[London]]. Nixon wrote about CIA puppet leader Russian president [[Boris Yeltsin]] “As one of Yeltsin’s first supporters in this country and as one who continues to admire him for his leadership in the past, I have reluctantly concluded that his situation has rapidly deteriorated since the elections in December, and that the days of his unquestioned leadership of Russia are numbered...His drinking bouts are longer and his periods of depression are more frequent...Most troublesome, he can no longer deliver on his commitments to you and other [[Western alliance|Western]] leaders in an increasingly anti-American environment in the Duma and in the country...The Russians are serious people...One of the reasons [[Khrushchev]] was put on the shelf back in 1964 is that the proud Russians became ashamed of his crude antics at the U.N. and in other international forums...if situation in Ukraine is allowed to get out of control it will make Bosnia look like a PTA garden party.”<ref>https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/nixonletter.pdf</ref>
====Bosnia====
====Bosnia====