James Baker who was the Secretary of State famously told gorbachov we will not move Nato one inch to the East and in 1997 Zig ninski who was the first of the neocons says okay here's a plan for moving NATO into every former Soviet territory and people go crazy at that time George Canon who is the most important Diplomat in modern American history he was the architect of the containment policy during the Cold War he said if you do that you going to turn Russia into an enemy you should be treating as a friend if you do this you're going to force Russia into a violent response what do we do we did it anyway why do we want to move NATO to the east when a new country signs onto NATO it has to then change all of its weapons purchases to Nato specifications which means it has to buy all of its weapons from locked Bing General Dynamics and north of grman and the US military contractors that are all on by Black Rock so there's this economic imperative to drive NATO into all of these new countries