[Marguerite]

For anybody studying the NATO strategy in Europe since 1949, with a special analysis on the period since 1991, that’s NOT the right answer.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

You have me at a disadvantage since I have only been around since 1952 and cognizant of NATO since 1964. However, seems to me that the strategy since 1991 was to prevent Russia from moving back into those nations that I listed in my previous post. That's not to say that perhaps after the fall of the Soviet Union too much territory was given up by Russia by their measure, especially when you consider that the population inhabiting those countries in part had become or had been strongly ethnically Russian for a long time. Surely, Putin sees that in light of a very weak West, it is a good time to push back or counter. He has Russia's interests to look after.