Clinton's NATO Play

The segment captures the unfolding strategy of NATO's expansion and the political maneuvers despite contrasting opinions. It's a pivotal moment with significant global impact.

And he also hears from Central Europe countries that I was advising, but not advising on this for sure, oh, we need NATO. Why do you need NATO? NATO was supposed to protect you against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. Russia is not threatening anybody. It's barely surviving the financial crisis, but it doesn't have its eyes on Prague or on Warsaw or on Budapest, nothing of the sort. But the idea of unipolarity is, ah, we need to put our bases on every part of the board. This is the game of risk. We need to put our pieces everywhere. And so the idea of NATO enlargement is worked out in 1993.