Originally Posted by
pr00ne
racedo, obgraham,
The good people of the Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic States most probably do not share your complacency.
They have seen to their detriment how they can't rely on Europe, nor the EU, to care about them.
League of Nations, part 2, insofar as collective security goes.
The major political motives for joining NATO had nothing to do with joining or not joining the EU.
The perception was: we need a big friend, not a whole lot of unreliable friends.
(I got to see some of this up close and personal during some of the pre NATO expansion activity in the mid to late 90's).