NATO is an unelected, unaccountable organization. Change my mind.
Trying to stir it I see.....
A group of countries get together to provide a collective security against the threat of the U.S.S.R./Soviet Union/Russia (whatever the feck you want to call them). This "club" was formed after WWII & in 1949
Now if you're of the opinion that such clubs should not exist, or that countries should not act together against the U.S.S.R./Soviet Union/Russia as they are of "no threat"......
Ukraine isn't in NATO.....Belarus (whose President sides with Putin) isn't in NATO, Finland, Sweden, & Bosnia have all have been threatened by Putin "if" they decide to join NATO...
Therefore Russia doesn't like independent sovereign countries joining NATO of their own free will..
....& I'll remind you of something I posted earlier.....
HOLODOMOR.....
Thats what Stalin did to Ukraine 90yrs ago..& what Putin is effectively doing today to Ukraine.
What's worse is the fact Putin has torn up the 1994 Budapest memorandum:-
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances - Wikipedia
Budapest Memorandums on Security Assurances, 1994 - Council on Foreign Relations (archive.org)
From the archived original copy:-
- The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine;
2. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;
3. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind;
4. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used;
5. The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm, in the case of Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclearweapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a State in association or alliance with a nuclear-weapon State;
6. Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America will consult in the event a situation arises that raises a question concerning these commitments.
This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature.
Signed in four copies having equal validity in the Ukrainian, English and Russian languages.
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