Why did Central and Eastern European nations join NATO after the Soviet collapse?
Following the Soviet collapse, Central and Eastern European states joined NATO primarily out of fear that Russia might use the approximately 800,000 ethnic Russians left in their countries as a pretext for future invasion and conquest. These nations didn't wait for NATO to move eastward - rather, they actively sought western protection against potential Russian aggression. NATO demonstrated restraint by not establishing permanent foreign military bases in these nations until after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea in 2014. The concerns of these nations were ultimately validated by Russia's subsequent military actions in Georgia in 2008, intervention in Syria, and the invasions of Ukraine since 2014 that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties.
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