American Thinker: the confrontation with Russia - the wrong way for NATO
Instead, to solve important global problems and to confront the real enemies, the United States and NATO have chosen the wrong path and protect themselves from the perceived threat posed by the Russian Federation, writes journalist Michael Curtis V.
The North Atlantic Treaty of the Commonwealth was signed by twelve countries that have pledged to support collective capacity to resist armed attack. This means that the Alliance is indivisible, whereas in publication 5, popular as " one for all and all for one ", it is reported that individual or collective self-defence is carried out in an armed attack on one or more European countries or North America." How This applies to Afghanistan, where there was no plan or mission to Libya, and now to Russia?" - says the journalist.
NATO was created during the cold war for one purpose - in the form of protection against a possible expansion to the West of the Soviet Union. One way or another From the very beginning of the territorial, economic and political boundaries and minimum requirements for membership in NATO were "stretched" to include in the Alliance of Greece, Turkey and Eastern Europe. Since the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union the US and other NATO countries were no longer under threat of attack or invasion From the East." It is logical that NATO either had to be dismembered, or to find alternative reasons for existence.