Russian invasion of Ukraine

thanks to @cozey link posted up thread, I chucked 50 bucks at prospect.org to see what the Americans have to say. Quite a bit, as it turns out. This is one of the most interesting articles I've read recently:

“It was totally predictable that NATO expansion would cause the most vigorous reaction on Russia’s part,” Matlock told me. “For those of us who ended the Cold War, this ruined the possibility of further collaboration.” George Kennan, still active in his nineties, called NATO expansion “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post–Cold War era.”

https://prospect.org/world/was-putin-inevitable-feb-2022/