Please explain NATOs Eastward expansion, post 1991 and the collapse of the USSR.
“Please explain NATOs Eastward expansion, post 1991 and the collapse of the USSR.”
Most of Russia’s neighbors want to be protected from invasion so they ask NATO for membership. They =apply= for membership in NATO. NATO doesn’t invade, expand or try and influence them since Russia already does that.
Gee, Comrade Jon, is it not obvious that the former Soviet states did not trust Russia and sought to join the military alliance for their own protection, a very wise and prescient move on their part born out by Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
Why, just ask Sweden and Finland why they quickly joined!
Please identify which post-1991 nations NATO troops, tanks, aircraft and missiles have invaded, kill civilians, and forcibly annexed.
The collapse of the USSR is what you call a tragedy????
The rest of the world considers that a tine of rejoicing.
Every country that joined NATO after 1991 explicitly requested to join to protect themselves from Russia.
They were proven right in 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia and in 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine