Russia feels threatened because its influence over east european countries has waned. In 1996, for example, Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary joined NATO. American presidents had promised that Eastern European countries would never be in NATO. Yeltsin and Putin feel betrayed. The port of Sevastopol has always been very important to the Russian navy. They don't want the place to turn into an American base !
The last thing we need is military agreements which suck many nuclear-armed countries in a large war as was the case in early WW I. For more information, listen to Vladimir Posner on youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng7Se5gQ and youtube.com/watch?v=yoKPd-Lu84U
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