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no need togo that far in history - we can compare NATO expansion since 2000-2015. And you are right saying there were talks about Russia joining NATO. But it di
by jesterson 2y ago
no need togo that far in history - we can compare NATO expansion since 2000-2015. And you are right saying there were talks about Russia joining NATO. But it didn’t happen and never would, since nato is a hostile military organization
- bell-cot 2y ago"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" - Joseph Stalin NATO "expanding" on a map - when the size of its combat-credible forces was fading toward zero - was a threat only in the minds of small children, attention-hungry alarmists, and senile paranoids. If Russia had cared to, it could have used self-serving western politicians to "Peace Dividend" NATO out of existence.
- jesterson 2y agohaha, “combat-credible” forces were quite sufficient to terrorise and destroy Yugoslavia, when it was necessary. It was never close to zero, quite the opposite.
- bell-cot 2y agoGlancing at Wikipedia, to compare the Area, Population, GNP, etc. of Russia and Yugoslavia...yeah. Charitably put, the latter was within 2-ish orders of magnitude of the former. Were the Soviets also cowering and whispering "OMG, we're next!!!" back in 1983, when the US invaded Grenada? After all, there were (given sufficient stretch) actual Soviet forces defeated in that case.
- jesterson 2y agoIf you do like cherry picking numbers you look at, you may find it extremely inconvenient to compare combined nato forces, which you have dismissed as “near zero” and russian forces. That makes the point but not the comparison of Yugoslavia to anything.