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The claim

“Well, then in ’97, Zbigniew Brzezinski, he was the first of the neocons, said, ‘We’re going to move NATO a thousand miles to the east and take 15 countries into it and surround the Soviet Union.’”

Rating

False

Reviewed by Washington Post ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

Sources and attribution

  1. [original] Washington Post original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 17, 2026