Comment by lucketone

Do you think openly saying any country that wants to join NATO, except the enemy, Russia, is welcome and will be accepted in due time, as they did with Georgia and Ukraine, and many others a decade earlier, despite USSR having left without blood the territories they had held since they obtained them after the bloodiest war in history, in which they came out victorious at enormous cost, does not constitute a threat? You can only think that if you buy the argument that NATO is purely for self defense, now and forever. Would you buy that argument if NATO ‘s guns were pointing directly at you? Even if you were right , is the risk you may be wrong acceptable when it comes to your national security?