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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
 I couldn't agree more. I will ask you this since you are putting together the map of NATO expansion and may have more insight. This is also an open question to our other Subsim members.
NATO started to expand eastward after the breakup of the Soviet Union / Fall of Communism in 1991. Why then did NATO need to expand Eastward ?
Wouldn't it have been better to show a sign of Good Faith and leave the current members numbers as they were ? Certainly, the U.S and other European countries like Germany and Great Britain and others could have worked with the former Soviet Bloc countries like Poland that had been in the sphere of Influence behind the Iron Curtain. This would not require membership in NATO.
I am a U.S Citizen, born and bred but I also think we have mishandled a number of things very badly. The above may be one such blunder. |
If you were a citizen in a former Russian-controlled country, you might have a better idea why they wanted to join NATO.