After Hillary Clinton tried to needle Russian President Vladimir Putin about NATO expansion, the Kremlin responded Wednesday, reminding her of a gaffe when she tried to “reset” relations with Russia with a button mislabeled “overload.”
Returning to the State Department for the unveiling of his official portrait, Clinton said of NATO enlargement: “Too bad, Vladimir. You brought it on yourself.”
Asked about the speeches, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Clinton was known in Russia for her attempts to turn everything around, but especially for her 2009 gaffe, when a symbolic button created to mark a “reset” of ties between the United States and Russia has been labeled “overloaded” in Russian.
“It is clear that this was probably not an intentional mistake, but a very significant one,” Peskov said.
At the time of Clinton’s gaffe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told her that the Russian verb used by the United States was incorrect, but specified that the button would be placed on her desk.
“It is probably necessary to remind Mrs. Clinton of the numerous waves of NATO expansion and the proximity of the Alliance’s military infrastructure to our borders,” Peskov said.
NATO, created in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, was expanded after the bloc’s collapse in 1991 to include the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries.
In launching the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Putin listed his main goals as halting NATO’s eastward expansion and ending what he called the “genocide” of Russian speakers by “nationalists and neo-Nazis.” in Ukraine since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. .
Putin’s actions encouraged Finland, which shares a long border with Russia, to join NATO. Sweden also intends to join.
Source: Terra
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