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How strong is the Nato military alliance?
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| 17 February 2015 Last updated at 19:59 ET
| BBC / The Inquiry
Posted on 02/24/2015 8:53:07 AM PST by WhiskeyX
War in Ukraine and the threat of conflict in the Baltics raise fundamental questions about the West's military alliance. What is Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - for? And is it up to the job?
Do would-be aggressors still believe that - as stated in Article 5 of Nato's founding treaty - an attack on one Nato member would be treated as an attack on all?
Four expert witnesses including Anders Fogh Rasmussen - who led the organisation until a few months ago - share their insights with the BBC World Service's The Inquiry.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: nato; russia; theinquiry
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posted on
02/24/2015 8:53:07 AM PST
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
NATO is no stronger than Turkey’s slip into Jihad.
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posted on
02/24/2015 8:54:37 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: WhiskeyX
Turkey. Still the “Sick Man of Europe”
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posted on
02/24/2015 8:55:06 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: WhiskeyX
The United States is the leader of NATO, and Obama is (technically) our “leader”, which makes him NATO’s leader. NATO is, like most organizations, as strong as its leader.
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posted on
02/24/2015 8:56:15 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: WhiskeyX
After nearly 8 years of O’, it’s very fragile.
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posted on
02/24/2015 8:58:06 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
To: Pollster1
Hello NATO , Obama is using hid flexibility and made a deal with Putin to stay out of his Country Grab for help with Iran
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:00:26 AM PST
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: WhiskeyX
Is this a joke. Is there still a thing called NATO. Is it a club where old warriors drink beer and talk about old times? I’d forgotten all about it.
To: WhiskeyX
NATO went the way of the UN years ago
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:05:56 AM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: WhiskeyX
To me, the US is Clint Eastwood in “Pale Rider” and NATO is the town he is hired to save and he trains them but when the bad guys show up, the town (NATO) caves. . .(except for the UK. . .those guys are still an outstanding professional military).
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:08:25 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: WhiskeyX
NATO died in April, 1993 when it entered the Serbian war. No NATO signatory nation was attacked or even threatened. And yet NATO commenced an offensive war on a small European nation.
It has been downhill for the alliance ever since.
Turkey acts more like an adversary than an ally. The mess in the Ukraine might be the last nail in the coffin.
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:08:59 AM PST
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
To: WhiskeyX
The US and Europe won’t even save THEMSELVES from invasion. Why would you possibly expect them to save anyone else?
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:09:12 AM PST
by
grania
To: WhiskeyX
WELL ... NATO is not strong enough to start a THIRD WORLD WAR with Russia!
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posted on
02/24/2015 9:14:27 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: WhiskeyX
Continental Europe has always been the weak link in NATO. You saw it in the Reagan era with all the anti-nuclear protests. Euro-weanies. Large population, large economy, yet they still don’t pull their own weight.
Europe has long been more liberal (and weaker) than America. I think we may have leapfrogged past Europe though, with Obama as our “dear leader”.
To: Star Traveler
NATO is an overwhelming force compared to Russia today, something that we were not when we had 550.000 men in Europe, under President Reagan.
I would much rather face the Russia of today, than what we were facing in the 1980s.
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:06:52 AM PST
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: Paladin2
NATO is no stronger than Turkeys slip into Jihad. Exactly, a chain is only as strong as its' weakest link.
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:10:39 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: ansel12
It wouldn’t be like rolling through Iraq ... with World War III ... you could count on the USA cities being nuked and hundreds of millions of people dead. That’s not much of a “win” for the USA in NATO!
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:12:39 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
Tell me what is going in the world that is so big, that suddenly Russia is just desperately seeking any excuse to destroy itself by nuclear fire and cease to exist?
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:18:36 AM PST
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: ansel12
I have no idea what the real thinking of Russia is (or Putin) ... but from what the Bible says, it’s God that puts a bug in Russia’s ear ... :-) ...
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:20:49 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
What are you rambling about now?
You think God wants the West to surrender to Russia?
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:23:54 AM PST
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: WhiskeyX
Well if Ukraine is an example of Europe's testicles I'd say learn to speak Russian.
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:25:44 AM PST
by
McGruff
(We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama 2011)
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