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Did NATO provoke Putin?

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Did NATO provoke Putin?

Is the West to blame for Russia's incursion into Ukraine?

Professor John Mearsheimer has advanced a controversial thesis linking the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to NATO's post-Cold War expansion.

He says the enlargement of NATO has come to threaten Moscow's core strategic interests, and that Vladimir Putin's behaviour might be motivated by 'legitimate security concerns'.

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