I seem to have a distinct remembrance of Russia seeking to join NATO about a generation ago. Considering that it was Vlad Putin that made the suggestion, it seems somewhat silly now, because a decade earlier, when the former Soviet Union because the Disunion of Former Soviet Republics, Secretary of State James H Baker promised that NATO wouldn't expand eastward another inch. Yet Moscow is quite a multitude of inches eastward from Germany. And the Ukraine is in the middle.
In my opinion, NATO should have been folded up and placed into a trash bag in 1991. It was rendered meaningless, since their reason for existence was null and void. So I will quote the Great Leader, Ronald Reagan, on this.
"There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program."
I seem to have a distinct remembrance of Russia seeking to join NATO about a generation ago. Considering that it was Vlad Putin that made the suggestion, it seems somewhat silly now, because a decade earlier, when the former Soviet Union because the Disunion of Former Soviet Republics, Secretary of State James H Baker promised that NATO wouldn't expand eastward another inch. Yet Moscow is quite a multitude of inches eastward from Germany. And the Ukraine is in the middle.
In my opinion, NATO should have been folded up and placed into a trash bag in 1991. It was rendered meaningless, since their reason for existence was null and void. So I will quote the Great Leader, Ronald Reagan, on this.
"There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program."
Which is why we're still stuck with NATO.
Yup. Not one inch.... yet, here we are.
Our self-anointed best-and-brightest betters deliver again; more reliable than the Royal Post of olden times (the 1990's).