Kikapu wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Great interview with professor Jeffrey Sachs
Yes, very interesting discussion.
This one I had watched a day earlier and was thinking about posting it, but then I thought it would be wasted on the “Anti Russia Team”!
See that's where you are all deluding yourselves and there is a major disconnect.
Merika did not agree that it will not move eastward by adding more NATO members to its ranks and also EU Members as well. It meant NATO will never attack another Eastern Block Country like Belarus or Russia itself. NATO and the West will never threaten or start a war or invade their territory.
So it has kept its word.
It did not agree or say at any time that it will not allow other former Eastern Block countries to join NATO or the EU.
The West and Merika believe in self determination, freedom and democracy. So NATO membership is a sovereign decision left to be determined by every single free and independent country. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, et all made their decisions to join and its not hard to work out why.
It's a no brainier to want to join the West and be a part of our world and adopt our Western deals of Democracy, Freedom and Human Rights.
The alternative is the dire opposite of this (Fascist Ruzzia and Chy-na) and no sane individuals who have an IQ above 80 would ever want that.
So, NATO has not moved an inch to the East. The East has just voted with their hands and feet and joined the good guys.
Even Cyprus can apply to join, even if it is unlikely they will be able to because of the Turkish Veto that would follow.
And that bitches was Cyprus' biggest and most gravest error in 1960.
Cyprus should have applied to join NATO on the 2nd of October, 1960. Oh well bitches.