And we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
Can definitely see why NATO wouldn’t sign it. Why would any ex Soviet bloc nation not want to be part of NATO? The NATO nations haven’t had any conflicts with Russia while the non NATO nations have had conflicts with them.
If these nations aren’t in NATO then what stops Russia invading them? Russia saw how easy it was in 2014 in Ukraine, wanted the ex Soviet bloc countries out of NATO so he could easily invade them. All Russia has done is prove exactly why NATO exists.
Here’s the link to the article from the tweet.
Can definitely see why NATO wouldn’t sign it. Why would any ex Soviet bloc nation not want to be part of NATO? The NATO nations haven’t had any conflicts with Russia while the non NATO nations have had conflicts with them.
If these nations aren’t in NATO then what stops Russia invading them? Russia saw how easy it was in 2014 in Ukraine, wanted the ex Soviet bloc countries out of NATO so he could easily invade them. All Russia has done is prove exactly why NATO exists.