The United States, NATO, and Russia: Why Did Things Go Wrong, and Where Do We Go From Here? Could things have been different, as many have argued, had the United States and its European allies followed a different approach to Russia and to NATO enlargement in the 1990s and 2000s? How will the United States and its NATO allies deter and defend against the threat Russia poses – and an ever-closer Sino-Russian relations – going forward? In this talk, James Goldgeier will address these questions and others.