(11-09-2024, 10:32 AM)Maxmars Wrote: NATO is a de facto militant irritant... and the West has been hiding from that fact for decades.
NATO as you well know was originally set up purely as a defensive arrangement, with no intention of attacking anyone and its independent members agreeing to defend each other against attack. During the Cold War it was used as a detterant against the USSR nuclear threat. After the USSR loss of the cold war and following collapse, many previously 'occupied' states believed that membership of NATO was a way of protecting against any future Russian aggression. After Putins invasion of Ukraine, I'd say it was a good idea.
Russian Troll in his many threads on ATS and now here has always said Russia wasn't fighting Ukraine but NATO, if that was true then why did Putin invade in the first place? Why would Putin want confilict with NATO? It's just out right fabrication.
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