Russia does not want to join NATO
The US Secretary of State said that in the 90s Moscow refused a proper proposal from the West
Russia itself has refused the offer of the West to join NATO. This was stated in an interview with The Late Show TV presenter Stephen Colbert by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. His words RIA News.
“Back in the 1990s, this issue was really discussed. The Russians decided that was not what they wanted to do,” Blinken said.
Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the assessment that the Russian Federation was once invited to the alliance, said that the United States had repeatedly stated that it was impossible to use Russian facilities in NATO. So he commented on the column of former US President Bill Clinton in the Atlantic magazine that after the collapse of the USSR, the door for Russia’s possible membership in NATO in the future will be limited. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier, in 2000 he talked with Bill Clinton about the US attitude towards Russia’s entry into NATO. According to him, the American leader was low-key.
Blinken again stressed that the North Atlantic Alliance is a defensive alliance, it has no aggressive intentions towards Russia. In Russia, there are often cases that cause confrontational confrontation. In the Kremlin, the expansion of the expansion of the alliance does not show the greater security of Europe, NATO has an aggressive character.