Why NATO Has Become a Flash Point with Russia in Ukraine

·  Russia has mobilized more than one hundred thousand troops along its border with Ukraine and is demanding major security concessions from NATO.

·  Russia alleges that U.S. leaders have broken promises they made in the early 1990s to not expand NATO’s membership eastward.

·  U.S. and NATO leaders say no such pledges were made and refuse to discuss limitations on NATO’s future expansion, but they say they are open to some security dialogue with Russia.

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