During the Cold War, Moscow portrayed the United States as a decadent capitalist empire doomed by the historical certainties of Marxism, while then-US president Ronald Reagan in 1983 called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and the "focus of evil in the modern world". After the Soviet collapse, Moscow expressed hope for a partnership with the West, but as Washington moved to support the enlargement of the NATO alliance, as outlined in US president Bill Clinton's 1994 strategy, tensions began to mount. When asked about the pledge in the US document to end "the perception, and preventing the reality, of the NATO military alliance as a perpetually expanding alliance", Mr Peskov said it was encouraging.
Author: ABC News
Published at: 2025-12-07 21:54:19
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