> does any[one] have any examples to prove me wrong? Perhaps NATO [0] in: - Turkey (1952) - Poland, Hungary (1999) - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bu

> does any[one] have any examples to prove me wrong? Perhaps NATO [0] in: - Turkey (1952) - Poland, Hungary (1999) - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, etc (2004) - Ukraine (2017) ...might qualify as this tactic? "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union." [1] [0] https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/ https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/ [1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato (EDIT: Formatting)