🇵🇱 Sikorski: Contrary to what Russian propaganda claims, NATO did not expand into the countries of Central Europe. It was we—our countries, the countries of our region, including Poland—who sought membership.

We were escaping the influence of a brutal hegemon, Russia, and moving into the camp of a friendly hegemon, the United States.

Europe benefited from this arrangement—but so did Washington, by pushing threats farther away from its own borders.