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Tom Cotton: Given that countries like Poland and Latvia and Lithuania and Estonia have all chosen freely to join NATO, do you think…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2016
Given that countries like Poland and Latvia and Lithuania and Estonia have all chosen freely to join NATO, do you think there is any truth to his claims that these are lands that are traditionally oriented towards the east?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Cotton questions the validity of Putin's claims about NATO's expansion.

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