we discussed the whole issue of nato expansion with political analyst, chris banbury. he says the alliance has gone from being a defensive block to being an aggressive one. now often to room here is the question of need to expansion and not document tries to avoid the fact that a promise was made to mikhail gorbachev on the head of the status of the promises made by the americans to be no need to expansion into eastern europe and former soviet republics, that promise which know the americans are trying to deny that for me or they just said above all promises that has obviously been broken. i don't this need to in the west simply point hardball by saying that i'm going to contain is open to a policy towards ukraine. not as a c inside as a saying that it's unlikely the ukraine will ever be allowed to join. natal bought the appointment hardball, which seems to me an aggressive policy in relation to the russia. they expansion in eastern europe and expansion into the former soviet republics is a long way for being a defensive warms based on the north atlantic. so nice is ru