Scott Horton, of course (the wizard from this unforgettable moment).
Maybe it’s long, but you can simply read on until you are convinced, then stop.
As he says regarding the American encirclement via NATO:
Over and over we can see that not just the guys at Antiwar.com and the Cato Institute, but many of the greyest and supposedly wisest of all the grey beards at the Council on Foreign Relations, academia, and the State and Defense departments, warned from the 1990s up to recent times, in the strongest language available what was likely to happen.
Again, the first enlightening background story to what we can almost term an American-Russian Proxy War…