In the bad old days, the world leaders had been through a World War.
It cooled their games.
The current generation has not been.
It was madness to put NATO in the Baltic and Black Sea states.
Agreed. Plus, the old joke about not wanting to belong to a club that would have one. Sort of applies to NATO these days.
Bulgaria? Hello? Bulgarians are the sorriest lot of soldiers I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying a lot. I mean, they make the “Bungle-a-deshi” soldiers look like paragons of military honor and discipline.
Yet we have our tax dollars at work subsidizing the likes of the Bulgarian, Romanian, Albanian, etc. militaries. Sigh.