Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed.
In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric.
BBC Russian asks former diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.
NATO laughed them out of the room, then proceeded to pretend they were still the USSR.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/why-didnt-russia-join-west-after-soviet-union-died-blame-bill-clinton
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%E2%80%93Russia_relations
CATO as a source is worse than RT lol. Talk about arguing in bad faith.
you said you were looking for pro russian media on the source