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Can we double up and admit them to NATO too?

• ksherlock 3y ago
  The *North Atlantic* Treaty Organization has geographic boundaries. Article 6 excludes armed attacks outside of Europe/North America (etc) Article 10 only allows European countries to join (as new members).
  • NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
    So renegotiate those. Hem Russia in from all sides.
  • dragonwriter 3y ago
    Article 6 and its specification of geographic scope has been changed with new members before [0], it can be again. Article 10 is kind of irrelevant, since it takes a unanimity to admit a new European member, and the members can also unanimously adopt any changes to the treaty they feel like, so the limitation to European new members is more symbolic than anything. Alternatively, the NATO members with, say, Asia-Pacific territories could just form a whole new alliance with each other and friendly countries in the region, structurally similar to NATO but focused in that region (say, the Asia-Pacific Treaty Organization), and each alliance could even have the other’s non-common members as non-member partners. [0] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17245.htm https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17245.htm
• kibwen 3y ago
  South Korea already has a mutual defense treaty with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_(United_States%E2%80%93South_Korea) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_(United_...
• zie 3y ago
  There are other organizations/treaties that do more or less what NATO does. Here are the mutual defense agreements from 2017: https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/l/treaty/collectivedefense/index.htm https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/l/treaty/collectivedefense/ind... I'm not aware of a newer official source sadly. Though we do have a pretty map from 1956 here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3201f.ct004057/ https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3201f.ct004057/