Reminder that Putin tried to merge with the West, even going

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Reminder that Putin is manlet lol

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>>69258888
>Bush

>>69258888
>it's the "cryptofascist putinshill spouts factually untrue bullshit" episode

>>69258977
This

>>69258977
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/853851/Putin-wants-NATO-to-let-Russia-join.html

If you seriously don't know how Pro-American Russian foreign policy was during the transitional period of the 90s, you need to read a book, nigger.

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>>69258954
>>69258888

>>69259063
That's not "Russia wants to join NATO", that's "NATO should accept Russia bypassing any requirements of membership or else it should disintegrate.". He never took any formal steps to join NATO.

You would know that if you were not illiterate or dishonest, possibly both.

>>69259258
>formal steps to join NATO
you must be fucking retarded, czechy.
There is a process, of course, but the bureaucracy surrounding it is ridiculous and it may easily be misconstrued based off whether the council wants the country applying to actually join or not.
Read their fucking bylaws and actual membership guidelines.

>>69258888
No shit

NATO is an anti-Russia alliance

>>69263448
THIS pretty much