Shoulda done it

Shoulda done it.

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Shoulda abolished NATO in 1991.

Indeed, he wanted to, and he might have done so.
Thing is, from 1991 on, nato has been treating Russia as pretty much an enemy - fighting them in every conflict - military and financial.
The man had no choice but to look for his own.

I thought the point of nato was to check russia. How could russia join nato?

Doesn't NATO exist solely to counter Russia?

why would Russia join an alliance that was created to defend against Russia?

He also wanted closer, friendlier ties with the EU still in the early 2000s, but the Western hardliners were stuck in Cold War mode and hated anything Russian.

To work internally to dissolve it. Or possibly create a more public globohomo.

As long as the NATO exists, we are stuck in a perpetual cold war. That's by design.

NATO was created to fight the USSR. After USSR fell it should have treated Russia as a friend, but they kept treating them as an enemy leading to this situation.

yes, but it claims not to. asking to join is calling the bluff

+15 RUB

In 2008 Russia was made an observer to NATO. Shit got sour during Obama era.

obama was evil all the way through, his presidency was pure poison

They turned us down in mid 00's, before Georgia. Yeah, he was too optimistic.

can't get attacked by nato if you're in nato

USSR ≠ Russia.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah as it turns out when you form an alliance and then purposefully exclude and demonize someone who wants into that alliance they then see you as an existential threat and seek other allies against you for their own safety.
Who were the fuckers in charge of the vote back then and about how many early lives do you think we'd see?

Wow a Polack who isn't a lying Jew... Maybe you aren't all so bad after all. It is obvious why Russia retaliates; our Jews in the US have been trying since the 60s to get us to go after the Russians. Then there is Israel doing god knows what in between the two. Which you know has some part to do with what is going on right now.

>USSR ≠ Russia
by all visible evidence NATO disagrees with this statement

Propaganda. He might've brought up the topic as a means to ask the west to not be enemies, rather neutral or allies instead, but the west obviously doesn't give a fuck. NATO's specific purpose and reason for creation, is as an anti-Russia (ex USSR) organization. It's used for other purposes as well, obviously, but the main goal is to keep Russia in check or to eliminate it.

If Russia isn't the USSR, why is it still a permanent member of the UN council?

When Russia decided to be recognized as the successor state of the USSR, it also decided to carry on its legacy, with all the consequences it would entail.

what fuckin retarded propaganda is this?

So? Like said, this was basically Putin asking the West to have more friendly relations, but they gave him the finger. Russia has been eternally portrayed as the bad guy, they even blamed the The Last Jedi tanking on Russia.

Russia was invited to participate in increasing cooperation with NATO, and for years was on a long track for potential membership in the organization. Since it became an independent country, the NATO states have considered their relationship with the RF important, and the organization has created frameworks for cooperation with it in the mutual interest of security.

As early as 1990, Soviet president Gorbachev hinted at USSR becoming a member. The idea had been revisited by Putin himself, Bill Clinton, Polish foreign minister Sikorski, NATO secretary Rasmussen, and others.

NATO formed the multilateral North Atlantic Cooperation Council (later renamed Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council) in 1991, welcomed the RF into its Partnership for Peace in 1994, signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security in 1997, established the NATO–Russia Council in 2002. The Russian Federation participated with NATO in joint military exercises and provided military transit support for the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

But the RF never qualified to become a full member of NATO. It didn’t have a fully functioning democracy, it sponsored a war in Moldova and interfered with its sovereignty, and suffered devastating civil wars between 1994 and 2009.

By then the Russian president had adopted a siege mentality against the West. In 2009, Russian ambassador to NATO Rogozin rejected the idea of membership, stating “great powers don't join coalitions, they create coalitions. Russia considers itself a great power.” The RF started occupying land within neighboring states’ borders, starting with Georgia. To its shame, the West tried to turn a blind eye to this aggression, perhaps out of a habit of conducting realpolitik and a focus on commercial trade. But that became impossible after the RF’s president ordered the invasion of Ukraine to enlarge his own aspiring empire, and will remain impossible as long as he continues an aggressive foreign war.