On the Fact that We Now Know with Certitude that In 1991, Then Secretary of State, James Baker, Promised Mikhail Gorbachev that N.A.T.O Would Not Be Budging One Inch Eastward Towards the Russian Border - WE LIED (Initially Bringing In Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic In 1999 and Then Everyone and His Sister In the Years to Follow)!!!!! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ&t=3017s

Oh, it gets worse in that early on Mr. Putin tried to get Russia not just into N.A.T.O. but also into the European Union and both times he was told to go pound sand. You want to know why relations with Russia are so bad today? Maybe start at the beginning, I'm just sayin'.