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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

NATO didn’t stop with Bosnia, Lydia, Iraq, and right thru to Ukraine.


42 posted on 06/13/2024 1:21:24 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

Old joke, circa 1989: There is only one country in the world surrounded by hostile communist neighbors: The Soviet Union.

I do not believe that NATO was involved in Iraq, Libya, nor Ukraine. NATO was involved in Afghanistan because the U.S. invoked Article V, claiming that sheltering Al-Qaida elements that attacked the U.S. on 9/11 made them responsible for its actions and a party to 9/11. NATO was correctly alarmed by Russian aggression against a former Soviet republic. The only possible reason that Russia could object to the eastward expansion of NATO is if it had hostile intentions towards its former satellites and republics.

Bosnia was a mistake, granted, but never a threat to Russia. It was Clintonesque dogooderism at its worst.


43 posted on 06/13/2024 1:31:17 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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