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Does NATO membership imply that America owns the country? I haven't witnessed anything like that in any of the European NATO countries.

• 999900000999 5y ago
  >Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm Like I said, I'm not enlisting if the Russians invade Poland. If individual American citizens want to a join a Polish foreign legion, that's fine. Maybe the State Department can create a list of approved foreign legions American citizen can join. Then your free to sign up on your own accord.
  • ProjectArcturis 5y ago
    Lol yes, history shows that aggressive dictators just want to conquer Poland, and if we give it to them they'll stop there.
    • rightbyte 5y ago
      He'd stop in East Germany though ...
  • mercutio2 5y ago
    Are you saying you would enlist if Germany, France, or the UK was invaded, but specifically Poland isn't worth enlisting for, because it's a former Warsaw Pact country? Or are you saying that you just don't believe in NATO, you would like the US not to have mutual defense alliances at all, and the expansion of NATO is completely irrelevant to your feelings about NATO? Poland and Hungary have done autocratic things I don't agree with, but their governments seem to come much closer to following the will of the people then they would if they were again inside Russia's sphere of influence, and I think bringing them inside NATO was good for them. I'm not sure whether it was a good maneuver strategically, but I'm also not sure it wasn't.
    • 999900000999 5y ago
      >Or are you saying that you just don't believe in NATO, you would like the US not to have mutual defense alliances at all, and the expansion of NATO is completely irrelevant to your feelings about NATO? I'm not enlisting for anything short of America actually getting invaded. During the Vietnam War anyone with a bit of money could get deferments. Those are what I call smart men. I feel absolutely no obligation to die in a foreign conflict. Providing logistic and selling arms is more than fine, but getting directly involved is a completely different matter.
      • vegai_ 5y ago
        If it becomes bad enough, there'll be a draft. But probably not since the US has plenty of soldiers without one.