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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Grimpachi
See the problem is NATO is a defensive agreement, to make eventually the world part of it, to end war.
Just that.
If you're against that you're the *hole who's against peace.
Simple as that.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Grimpachi
See the problem is NATO is a defensive agreement, to make eventually the world part of it, to end war.
Just that.
If you're against that you're the *hole who's against peace.
Simple as that.
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: Peeple
Then why didn't they allow Russia to join?
The Labour peer recalled an early meeting with Putin, who became Russian president in 2000. “Putin said: ‘When are you going to invite us to join Nato?’ And [Robertson] said: ‘Well, we don’t invite people to join Nato, they apply to join Nato.’ And he said: ‘Well, we’re not standing in line with a lot of countries that don’t matter.’”
The account chimes with what Putin told the late David Frost in a BBC interview shortly before he was first inaugurated as Russian president more than 21 years ago. Putin told Frost he would not rule out joining Nato “if and when Russia’s views are taken into account as those of an equal partner”.