ReallySo they couldn't be blamed for using gas as a blackmailing tool. Blow them up, blame others, sorted.
The other reason for the holes could be to try and prevent them from being turned on. It widens the field.
ReallySo they couldn't be blamed for using gas as a blackmailing tool. Blow them up, blame others, sorted.
Yes it does.The other reason for the holes could be to try and prevent them from being turned on. It widens the field.
Thet were all laughing at Trump, is all. Standard stuff at world gatherings.I saw a video of it, with one of the German politicians laughing his head off.
No, he said the reason (for his special military operation) was the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine, in his public address. NATO wasn't mentioned. It came later as the excuses mounted.
There's a few angles there, NATO is a purely defensive organisation. It doesn't have a history of invasion of other sovereign countries. (Excluding humanitarian
NATO was formed as a deterrent to the threat from the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union dissolved, so why didn't NATO dissolve as well.Nato doesn't threaten anybody
Given the history of Russia and Western Europe, Russia would be mad not to secure their sovereignty by neutralising the threat from pro Western countries on their border.Russia seems to think it has a right to have "buffer states
They have just ensured the expansion of NATO. It is happening thanks to Vlad the invader.Russia would be mad not to secure their sovereignty by neutralising the threat from pro Western countries on their border.
Two world wars started in the east, each one worse than the one before.They have just ensured the expansion of NATO. It is happening thanks to Vlad the invader.
In the meantime there were other threats that arose.NATO was formed as a deterrent to the threat from the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union dissolved, so why didn't NATO dissolve as well.
All outside the original remit of NATO.In the meantime there were other threats that arose.
So what?All outside the original remit of NATO.
It undermines the justification for NATOSo what?
No it doesn't, organisations can evolve to meet different challenges.It undermines the justification for NATO
NATO was created to counter the threat from the Soviet Union.No it doesn't, organisations can evolve to meet different challenges.
No, not only for that.NATO was created to counter the threat from the Soviet Union.