thekarmabum

thekarmabum t1_ixxwbou wrote

Both events were caused by significant regime changes. I don't see Germany going through that anytime soon, Russia is a maybe, depends on who goes up the food chain after Putin. Those were two wars that had fairly clear endings, even though the cold war was never officially a war.

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thekarmabum t1_ixxupns wrote

Ukraine has to settle the dispute with Russia before they can join NATO. It literally says in the treaty that no countries currently undergoing a territorial dispute with any other country can join NATO. It is in there to prevent exactly this, a country joining NATO and NATO immediately going to full mobilization.

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