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Sure it is: after the cold war there was some debate but in the end then NATO decided they preferred Russia as an enemy rather than as an ally. Russia got the
by SiempreViernes 6y ago
Sure it is: after the cold war there was some debate but in the end then NATO decided they preferred Russia as an enemy rather than as an ally.
Russia got the message and are now dutifully playing its role.
- blackcats 6y agoFrom the German perspective there is a country east with loads and loads of nukes and on the west a paper ally Around 2000 they wanted to become part of Nato, but this all changed with the Iraq war. The Afghanistan, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria wars later followed further dividing the two powers. Besides states don’t have friends, only threats. Nothing to do with girlfriends, friends or people. Just the nature of states
- dane-pgp 6y agoNo, after the Cold War, countries that had been under the control of the USSR decided they didn't want Russian tanks rolling into their capitals again. Those countries which joined NATO ended up being vindicated when they saw what happened to Georgia and Ukraine.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoRight, and Turkey is a nice and upstandnding world citizen that hasn't done the exact same thing and in addition funded IS.