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How NATO Expansion Has Aggravated Tensions In Europe
And members keep being added
The Cold War ended in 1991, but the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still alive and kicking. NATO was created before the Cold War but it gained its notoriety and mandate from the ideological struggle between the USSR and the United States.
NATO is a treaty that binds the member states in a defensive pact. If one NATO nation is attacked, they are all attacked. Member states are obligated to come to the aid of any state that comes under attack with the full might of their military. Despite the end of the Cold War and relative peace and stability in Europe NATO continues to grow and its growth has, rightfully, upset Russia. Russia has long been locked out of the organization.
After World War II, the Soviet Union asked to join the military alliance and was shot down.
On its face, NATO has nothing to do with Russia but everyone knows that the existence of the alliance has everything to do with Russia.
It should be no surprise then that the continual expansion of NATO has inflamed tensions in Europe.
A continually expanding entangling alliance
World War I was infamously started by a series of entangling alliances. In that…
