Poland wants NATO-Russia Deal Scrapped

[Chugalug2]

racedo:-

Thing is what is NATO designed to do ?

Good question which the NATO site,

http://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/

http://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/files/checklist_en.pdf

seems not to define, except in the broadest terms:-

To safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means.

The sort of vague gobbledegook that you can hang any adventure on, like Afghanistan, perhaps even Syria? There was me thinking it was all about defending Europe and North America from direct external threats...

[Rosevidney1]

I'm sure we all thought the same.....

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Bunny

It is also possible that Poland want the income and dollar of a major NATO establishment in their own backyard?

Bingo. Not hard to sort out.

[skippedonce]

NRFA Not About Nukes

The agenda of that member is the very guarantee of their security, that's the contradiction. Declaration of anything is not a guarantee, though this point may only be visible from Helsinki, Warsawa, Tallin, Riga, Vilnius.

The treaty in question is about maintaining status-quo with reagards of nuclear warhead deployments.

I don't think so!

Firstly, as Finland is not a signatory to the 1949 Washington Treaty, what Helsinki thinks is not strictly relevant to what happens between NATO and Russia, because Finland is not a NATO member.

Secondly, Poland's (and the Baltics) most pressing problem with the NATO-Russia Founding Act has nothing to do with nukes: 'NATO reiterates that in the current and foreseeable security environment, the Alliance will carry out its collective defence and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability, integration, and capability for reinforcement rather than by additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces'.

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/of...exts_25468.htm