With respect to your comments on the changing role of NATO, which incidentally flowed out of the Clinton/Blair war on Serbia in the 1990s, see American Foreign Policy At The Crossroads.
With respect to references to Ronald Reagan, in this thread, it is important to point out that it was not Reagan who turned NATO from a defensive alliance against Soviet Communism into an aggressive promoter of international conformity--far from it. Again, it was Clinton & Blair, and Serbia was the target. (The Serbs referred to Clinton as "Adolph Clinton" at the time.)
There is, of course, an ocean of difference between a Russia that was the central cog in a Communist conspiracy to force Marxist collectivist uniformity on mankind, and a Russia that simply celebrates a Russian heritage. It is very sad that some people cannot understand the distinction.
William Flax
Agreed. That Nato action in Serbia was stunning and did mark a large shift. And yes there is a large misunderstanding of what Marxism was. Some cannot seperate ideology from geography and forget there was a time prior to Marxist times when Russia stood with us, even helping in our civil war by harboring ships here to defend against potential british aggression at the request of Lincoln.