Senate witness says Russia still sees NATO as cover for American imperialism, Ukraine war continues Soviet struggle

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Fiona Hill says continuing prepared remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing about national security priorities that the war in Ukraine was a continuation of the Soviet struggle with the United States to carve up Europe after 1945, that Russia sees NATO as a US Cold War bloc, a cover for American imperialism and not as an alliance of equals to ensure a common defense and security, that NATO's post cold war expansion and Ukraine's reluctance to implement the Minsk accords in Donbass became the current casus belli, so redefining European security and restoring deterrence would involve explicitly countering the narrative building an international coalition against Russia's aggression, that to facilitate the eventual settlement of the war in Ukraine would require the same to uphold the United Nations Charter and international law.