Putin said that in 2000 he offered Clinton to accept Russia into NATO

President Vladimir Putin said in a video message that he proposed to American President Bill Clinton to accept Russia into NATO.

“In 2000, during Bill Clinton’s visit to Moscow, I asked him how America would react to the fact that accept Russia into NATO. <…> But the reaction to my question looked restrained,” Putin said.

Although Putin prefaced the memory of the conversation with Clinton with the words that “this is something that [he] never spoke about publicly” and “will say this for the first time ”, he also previously mentioned this in an interview with director Oliver Stone in 2017.

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