Robin Monotti: Nato expansion ‘would provoke Russians’…
Nato expansion ‘would provoke Russians’, UK understood
A March 1997 briefing for prime minister John Major outlined UK support for a “small first group” of countries to join the Nato alliance.
“Too many at once would strain Nato structures, antagonise Russia”, read the briefing, which was intended for Major’s upcoming meeting with Nato secretary general Javier Solana. Further decisions on which states would join and when “would provoke Russians”, it added."
MARK CURTIS
15 April 2026
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