A very good dissertation on why Russia's former slave states have all sought membership in NATO to deter reconquest by their former Russian slavemasters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWK_euAwrMkSelected comments from the You Tube page:
@Ben.....
5 days ago
Russia: Don't join NATO, we'll protect you.
Eastern Europe: Protect us from what?
Russia: From what we might do if you try to join NATO
@Flavas
6 days ago
As a Moldovan - we used to have russian jets flying over our houses, the electricity and gas would be switched off in winter and constantly threatened by Moscow whenever they didn't get what they want and people wonder why we want to join Nato.
@bababababababa6124
6 days ago (edited)
- Invades Ukraine to prevent NATO from expanding
- multiple countries in Europe apply to join NATO for protection
Nice one guys
@zeni104
5 days ago (edited)
People talk about NATO like its a sovereign entity and not an alliance of seperate sovereign nations. Every nation decided to join NATO, NATO didnt absorb them unilaterally. If the nation in question wanted guarantees of peace through strength, which NATO is, then they sought it out. Seeing what Goergia and Ukraine are dealing with now as well as Chechnya before. No wonder they wanted membership.
@Horus137
6 days ago
Joining NATO was probably one of the biggest achievements of my country (Poland). After hundreds of years under Russian occupation/influence, we are finally safe from them. The same applies for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and other central European states. I bet that in the best case (if they weren't in NATO), these 3 countries would've been partially occupied now by Russia, like Georgia and Ukraine.
@kacperolkusz3985
6 days ago
As a pole, the fact that Poland - a country that today has no cultural nor economic ties to Russia, does not hold any Russian minority, has completely different language and religion, has virtually no strategic value to Russia, is not expansionist in any way and is building up army solely for its self preservation, is still threatened on the weekly basis by Russia really shows what they're all about. They have no claims to Eastern Europe, they don't own Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe does not want them. They are doing all of this out of pure spite, pure hatred for any society they perceive as being better of without them. All of those people died for nothing, both Russians and all the others.
@mihailrangelov8343
5 days ago
As an Eastern European, I was disappointed how much traction the "NATO provoked Russia" thesis has gained in the West. This shows that unfortunately, many westerners have very limited knowledge on EE and Russia, in particular. Regarding the region of CEE we are talking about 100 million people, that have their own ambitions and desires as nations and are not supposed to be just "buffer satellite states" between the West and Russia.
@julien_lemur2302
6 days ago
Im georgian.
We would never want to join NATO if we were 100% sure russia wouldnt attack us but in georgia we have a saying
“Russian’s promise has as much value as a whore’s purity”
We are scared as bleep and also we see russia has not done shit to baltics which were in a very similar situation to ours before joining, since they joined 0 problems.
joining NATO is the only safety guarantee
@iedzerkvasu2063
6 days ago
As a Latvian, i can say that this video is very accurate and true. If it weren't for NATO, Latvia and other Baltic states would already be occupied by russia today. Joining NATO was the only way to preserve our independence, so when the opportunity arose to join NATO and EU, we seized it with both hands and never looked back at the sh*thole that russia currently is.
