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NATO expansion- why?
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:05am
by Vympel
Pretty self-explanatory. Why does this alliance still exist with the Cold War over? What is its purpose? Who are they defending themselves against? And why does it expand up to Russia's borders, but doesn't ask Russia to join?
Re: NATO expansion- why?
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:06am
by haas mark
Vympel wrote:Pretty self-explanatory. Why does this alliance still exist with the Cold War over? What is its purpose? Who are they defending themselves against? And why does it expand up to Russia's borders, but doesn't ask Russia to join?
Why does it extend to Russia at all?
Re: NATO expansion- why?
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:09am
by Mike_6002
Vympel wrote:Pretty self-explanatory. Why does this alliance still exist with the Cold War over? What is its purpose? Who are they defending themselves against?
One word: Themselves
You now this the new age of nationalism, with the Soviets gone there is nothing to contain nationalism, I see it now Waloons vs. The Flemish in a Belgian civil war, over rather to join the Greater Nertherlands
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:10am
by victorhadin
For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:14am
by Vympel
victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:23am
by haas mark
Vympel wrote:victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
Seriously, why is it extended so far out? Its not even in the Atlantic anymore!
Re: NATO expansion- why?
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:26am
by Admiral Piett
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:46am
by victorhadin
Vympel wrote:victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
As I said, fashion. They are the little frilly bits on the edge.
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:54am
by Oberleutnant
victorhadin wrote:Vympel wrote:victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
As I said, fashion. They are the little frilly bits on the edge.
At least the Estonians I know of are in favor of NATO membership for one geographical reason: they share a common border with Russia. Living 50 years under the communist rule and losing their independence two times during the same century create bad memories, methinks. Now that Estonians are in the NATO, perhaps there's some hope that some Finns pull their heads out from their arse and realize NATO isn't a group of warmongering nations bent on destroying everything in the world.
Posted: 2002-11-22 08:57am
by Vympel
verilon wrote:Vympel wrote:victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
Seriously, why is it extended so far out? Its not even in the Atlantic anymore!
Those hat-fuckers obviously have forgotten what their acronym means
Posted: 2002-11-22 09:00am
by haas mark
Vympel wrote:Those hat-fuckers obviously have forgotten what their acronym means
Quite what I figured....
But I wonder what their reasoning behind it is...I thought that was what the UN was for...!
Posted: 2002-11-22 09:03am
by Vympel
verilon wrote:Vympel wrote:Those hat-fuckers obviously have forgotten what their acronym means
Quite what I figured....
But I wonder what their reasoning behind it is...I thought that was what the UN was for...!
Well NATO is a military alliance that doesn't answer to the UN at all- the UN has no military teeth whatsoever.
Posted: 2002-11-22 09:06am
by haas mark
Vympel wrote:verilon wrote:Vympel wrote:Those hat-fuckers obviously have forgotten what their acronym means
Quite what I figured....
But I wonder what their reasoning behind it is...I thought that was what the UN was for...!
Well NATO is a military alliance that doesn't answer to the UN at all- the UN has no military teeth whatsoever.
Ah. Okay. I thought the UN was the "Mess with one, Mess with all" club.
Posted: 2002-11-22 09:06am
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
Vympel wrote:verilon wrote:Vympel wrote:
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
Seriously, why is it extended so far out? Its not even in the Atlantic anymore!
Those hat-fuckers obviously have forgotten what their acronym means
I always though it stood for No Action Talk Only.
Posted: 2002-11-22 11:47am
by meNNis
verilon wrote:
Ah. Okay. I thought the UN was the "Mess with one, Mess with all" club.
heh.. no.. its more like the "mess with one, nobody cares" club
Posted: 2002-11-22 12:39pm
by Ted
verilon wrote:Vympel wrote:victorhadin wrote:For fun and giggles and fashion
Its all the rage to belong to supranational organisations, you know. NATO is in. Warsaw Pact is out and OPEC is just looking dreary this winter.
NATO just admitted the three baltic states .... and you've gotta ask- what the hell for? What have they got to offer?
Seriously, why is it extended so far out? Its not even in the Atlantic anymore!
Actually, it was never Atlantic to start with, Italy was one of the founding members, with Greece and Turkey about a year or two later.