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2019-10-17 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Is true.

Posted by newc 2019-10-17 00:49|| 2019-10-17 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Nonsense, Gorbi broke NATO.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-17 01:07|| 2019-10-17 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 You could hear the sounds of NATO's dying gasps when the Iron Curtain fell and Germany reunified. NATO is now one of those marriages where they are long separated and only are married because they haven't divorced ... yet.

Posted by magpie 2019-10-17 02:12|| 2019-10-17 02:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Reboot.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-17 07:25|| 2019-10-17 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 marriages where they are long separated and only are married because they haven't divorced

Posted by Bobby 2019-10-17 08:48|| 2019-10-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, Bobby. Scary.
For a second I thought that was Lena Dunham, sans tats.
More effective than coffee.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-17 08:55|| 2019-10-17 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 It crumbled under Clinton. Especially with the expansion all the way up to Russia's borders. Enforcement of provisions in the treaty weren't enforced, standards slipped and it became a social club for politicians and generals.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-17 09:14|| 2019-10-17 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 ^^ Good point (#7) DarthVader.

Posted by magpie 2019-10-17 13:12|| 2019-10-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Not only did I watch it happen from within the military, after I got out and worked for the DoD I saw it even more. Most of us were wondering why the hell NATO was still around and what we were doing. The bombing of Serbia told us. It was about spreading western Europe's power. Nothing more.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-17 15:13|| 2019-10-17 15:13|| Front Page Top

#10 That spread allowed the EU to come into being. If it wasn't for the spread of NATO with German money and American might, the EU wouldn't exist as it does today.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-17 15:14|| 2019-10-17 15:14|| Front Page Top

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