NATO member Turkey shoots down Russia aircraft, but that is no threat
Personally, I think NATO outlived its charter by a decade or two. I think it wants to exist BECAUSE it exists, and all those leaders and functionaries need a job.
And if Russia likes its health care they can keep their health care!
The West promised Russia after the end of the Cold War to dissolve the logic of hostile blocs. That was forgotten when Russia was weak and NATO instead of winding up its affairs, rushed instead to expand up to Russia’s borders.
I doubt the US would tolerate Canada and Mexico belonging to a foreign military bloc. But it expects Russia to acquiesce in Ukraine joining a hostile military alliance.
Dream on. Encirclement has its own logic and a country faced with it is going to take steps against it. Europe is not being threatened by Russian military invasion today. Its being threatened by an Islamic demographic and cultural takeover.
Which NATO, with all its military superiority can’t prevent. The West won the Cold War without firing a shot and millions of people are free today because it stood for freedom and justice.
But if the West expects Russia to accept a subordinate role and forego its national interests along with revival of its legitimate Great Power aspirations, it isn’t going to happen. Enlarging NATO won’t change those facts of life for most Russians.
Ironic that the shiny new NATO headquarters is situated in Brussels, a city at the epicenter of the Muslim invasion.
Flying the French Flag.