William Perry, US Defense Secretary 1994-1997, considered resigning in opposition to NATO expansion

This tells you so much about the nature of the American empire.

William Perry, the US Defense Secretary between 1994 and 1997, considered resigning in opposition to NATO expansion:

“It wasn’t that we listened to their argument and said [we] don’t agree with that argument… Basically the people I was arguing with when I tried to put the Russian point…. the response that I got was really: ‘Who cares what they think? They’re a third-rate power.’ And of course that point of view got across to the Russians as well. That was when we started sliding down that path.”