It's like being allies with a crack head. Rather, a bunch of crack heads.
Georgia is a loooooong way from the North Atlantic.
We need to leave NATO now.
NATO might expand into the Republic of Georgia. So who’s right, my Uncle Wally or Frederick the Great?
“The more the merrier!”
Uncle Wally
“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
Frederick the Great
"It's what happens when you throw in with Muzzies, dear."
So how many American NATO lives is Georgia worth?
I’m no apologist for Russia, particularly Putin, but my family origins are Russian.
This constant expansion of NATO, encroaching on Russian borders with weapons and mutual defense agreements, is an astoundingly insensitive and bad idea. The US has little or no historical sensitivity to this kind of encroachment, though we threatened nuclear war when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba. But Russia, who has significant reason to fear or at least be very wary of foreign encroachment near its borders, is expected to just go along with this. It is a very poor idea, it is poking Russia in the eye, and they are bound to react by upping their defenses and probably offensive capability as well. This is exactly what we have seen, pretty much since the NATO entreaties to the Ukraine. It’s just a stupid, provocative idea that does little except raise tensions and stimulate arms sales.
What has hit a real nerve with Moscow is not Georgia, but Armenia - which had its velvet revolution in April, ousting Kremlin puppets, and arresting its former pro-Russia president. Armenia doesn’t even have a desire to join NATO.
We here in the north woods don’t want to join NATO. We uns are just fine as is. /s
Russia has a very long memory and a very long history of being invaded. The last time, it cost them a staggering amount of lives. Many times more than every other country combined. Many who lived through that are still here to tell the tales.
Failure for the US and NATO to take that into account is just nuts.
Fear of invasion is in the Russian DNA.
NATO and EU are crazy. Russia has for centuries wanted a buffer zone on its borders as we again saw when EU tried to take over Ukraine. So now they’re going to repeat their folly in Georgia?
Get the US out of NATO and the UN.
Russia has been incrementally seizing Georgian land, to the point it occupies 20% of its territory. If Georgia joined NATO, that might short-circuit further Russian expansion, which is presumably why Medvedev is getting all riled up about that possibility. Russia has always considered any move to prevent its territorial expansion to be provocative, and the possible Georgian accession to NATO is no exception.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-quietly-seizing-territory-in-georgia-10-years-after-the-war-2018-8
[Vice President Mike Pence made similar remarks on a visit to Georgia last year.
“Today, Russia continues to occupy one-fifth of Georgian territory,” Pence said . “So, to be clear — the United States of America strongly condemns Russia’s occupation on Georgia’s soil.” ]
Translation: Russia has solid plans for invading and annexing Georgia.