Again, the invasion of Ukraine began on 2/24/22, while the annexation of Crimea happened in 2014. They are different events that happened seven years apart. Your instinct is to defend NATO as a defensive alliance, when their own webpage shows what patriots on my side of the argument claim; NATO is an aggressive, interventionist assembly, supported largely by US taxpayers. It’s a pity you can’t understand the words you lifted from their pages. It’s right there in front of your pudding coated nose.
Nice try, Frick.
You wanted to know what in the NATO Charter allowed NATO to take the actions it did re: Russia, and I showed you.
BTW, Russia DID invade eastern Ukraine in 2014, via infiltration of Russian Federation troops, trainers, advisors, technicians, etc.: The Little Green Men, as they wore no insignia on their uniforms). Who do you think provided the separatists with the weaponry and training that went into the separatists shooting down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17 in July, 2014, killing all on board (some 300 people)?
“They are different events that happened seven years apart.”
The only difference is in time and scope: 2014 in a relatively clandestine operation; and 2022 in an overt and massive operation. 2022 was an escalation of 2014.
“Your instinct is to defend NATO as a defensive alliance, when their own webpage shows what patriots on my side of the argument claim; NATO is an aggressive, interventionist assembly, supported largely by US taxpayers.”
You’re no patriot, Frick; at least, not an American patriot. So stop sullying actual American patriots by trying to insert yourself into their ranks.
NATO aggressive? It’s been in existence for 75 years, and its only aggression was in the 1990s in the Balkans; and THAT was pursuant to UN resolution. BTW: I opposed NATO involvement in that instance.
What other aggression has NATO engaged in? Korea? That was a UN action, not a NATO action (in any event, NATO was in its infancy in 1950; but BECAUSE of the Korean War and Russia’s behind-the-scenes involvement in it NATO increased its membership). NATO aggressive? For decades it has been called “toothless.” Some aggression.
I know what NATO is, Frick.