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Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
George Robertson recalls Russian president did not want to wait in line with ‘countries that don’t matter’www.theguardian.com
Okay, so they never applied, and therefore were never REJECTED. They wanted preferential treatment.
That's why I used the term " enquired" and not " applied". This is how real diplomacy works. They sounded out the Americans and were left in no uncertain terms that NATO is not going to have you in it. It was set up with the USSR/Russia in in sights and nothing has cjanged, even after the end of the Cold war.