Russia shares a 2,200 mile border with Ukraine. We promised Russia when they dismantled the Soviet Union in 1992 that we would not move NATO to the east. Since then, we've moved [NATO] 14 nations and a thousand miles to the east. So we broke our word. The one thing they said, you cannot put it in Ukraine. We put Aegis missile systems in Poland and Romania as soon as they came into NATO. (54:42–54:48)
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Asserts that NATO has expanded by 14 nations and 1,000 miles eastward since 1992.
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