Originally Posted by
Prunus Dessicata
Europe, and some parts of the Middle East, would be a lot more peaceful if NATO had dissolved itself after its raison d'etre ceased to exist. The hoax of the 'threat' of hordes of Cossacks pouring through the Fulda Gap was a money-making con trick by the military-industrial complex. Immensely lucrative, of course, but it was just a con trick that most of us, myself included, fell for.
It takes a certain amount of doublethink to call the Russian threat a hoax at the very same time they're attempting to invade Ukraine.
The difference between Russian expansion and NATO expansion is that NATO expands when someone wants to join it (if the rest of NATO is happy to have them), whereas Russia expands by invading countries that don't want to join it.