Yves here. Dr. Sotirovic covers a widely-ignored part of NATO’s past, as in the way former Nazi military officers not just found a home there but even held prominent positions. He makes the not-unreasonable suggestion that they influence the values of NATO sufficiently so as to strengthen its hostility to Russia, to the degree that it explains the fixation on NATO expansion. Aurelien and others have argued instead for NATO’s continuance after the USSR dissolved, including its core position against Russia, being due to other factors, such as inertia, the advantage to the US of continuing to keep troops in...