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why is NATO a threat? Has NATO ever started a conflict, seized territory, or imposed sanctions? Genuinely asking, I pretty ignorant here.
by chasd00 5y ago
why is NATO a threat? Has NATO ever started a conflict, seized territory, or imposed sanctions? Genuinely asking, I pretty ignorant here.
- tguvot 5y agoNATO is a threat because NATO is enemy. there is kind of circular logic over there.
- john_moscow 5y agoIt's for internal consumption. The average life quality is dropping both in Russia and the West, so the governments need to divert attention and redirect the frustration to external targets. The "NATO being a threat to the whole world" is the Russian version of "Climate Change will kill us all, so don't even think of starting a family (and wondering why your current salary makes it rather challenging)".
- Drunk_Engineer 5y agoRussia has always in been conflict with Western powers, and has been invaded on several occasions.
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- mrguyorama 5y agoCan you name an example of one of these invasions?
- Drunk_Engineer 5y agoIs that a serious question? World War 2 for starters...
- mrguyorama 5y agoI guess I hadn't considered Nazi Germany as a "western power". I'm a code monkey, not a political scientist. The question was as genuine as could be. I figured I didn't know the history of the former soviet union very well and was missing something.
- rasz 5y agoon 17 September of 1939, right?
- VictorPath 5y agoThe US invaded Russia in 1918, fighting the Russian army in Arkhangelsk and surrounding areas.
- kstenerud 5y agoNATO is a sticky situation with the Russians. The one thing the Russians fear more than anything else is encirclement, so any organization of potentially hostile nations is immediately looked upon with suspicion. Also, they're still sore that some negotiators in 1990 promised more on NATO than the USA was willing to deliver. This is oft-repeated in the upper circles of the Kremlin, and regardless of its validity it's still a strong sentiment.
- VictorPath 5y agoYou mean like bombing Libya?
- alkonaut 5y agoIn 2011? That was a UN sanctioned operation after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
- bigodbiel 5y agoExactly and Russia (then Medvedev the “president” and Putin PM) abstained, hoping the intervention to have been circumscript. The aftermath of the intervention for the Kremlin was betrayal, which lead the “military tower” taking back control of the Kremlin from the “business tower”.
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- mid 5y agoNATO bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 without UN authorization under the pretext of "humanitarian intervention". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia