But, I’ll tell you: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, and Poland are damn glad they are part of NATO. Because the Russian bear is hungry, and forever needs feeding.===
But for Russia NATO in those countries mean insecurity. And insecurity will bring the war closer. SO joining to NATO you just bring the war closer.
If you trample on someone security then you bring the war closer.
“But for Russia NATO in those countries mean insecurity. And insecurity will bring the war closer. SO joining to NATO you just bring the war closer.”
You have no one to blame for that but Russia. If Russia were such a good neighbor all those countries that had formerly been under the Russian boot would not have clamored to join NATO: They would, instead, have joined with Russia; or, at the very least, been non-aligned. But, of course, they didn’t join with Russia, and they did not choose non-alignment. Because they very much knew what Russia was all about, and they wanted no part of it.
How many people — let alone countries — are now rushing or have in the past have rushed across the borders of Russia to immigrate to Russia? Hell, people have been FLEEING Russia ever since the 1990s, such that Russia has a population problem (i.e., not enough population to sustain itself).