[Tailgunner Joe]

Also NATO is the most powerful military force the world has ever seen. That's why it terrifies Putin. NATO spends more on it's military than the rest of the world put together, over ten times as much as Russia. NATO could squash Russia like a bug.

[ansel12]

Also NATO is the most powerful military force the world has ever seen.

It sure is, and today it includes past enslaved nations and territory and populations of young men, and technological know how that the Russians depended, on as a part of their military might.

[BobL]

“Also NATO is the most powerful military force the world has ever seen...NATO spends more on it’s military than the rest of the world put together, over ten times as much as Russia.”

Sure be nice if we got the same bang for the buck...looks pretty close to me.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/United-States/Military

[justa-hairyape]

NATO could squash Russia like a bug.

Apparently you forget reading about all those times when NATO bombed the wrong forces in Libya.