I don't think it had a single source -- NATO bureaucrats, Eastern European ethnic lobbies, arms manufacturers etc. all played a role.
--- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The idea of expanding NATO eastward originated
> with Lockheed Martin and that ilk, looking for new
> markets for arms sales, according to Helen Caldicott
> (The New Nuclear Danger.)
>
> BobW
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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