Is a U.S.-Russia War Becoming Inevitable?
Posted By: MDConservative, 7/19/2022 10:04:57 AM
At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland? If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki's defense and fight Russia on Finland's side. What does Finland's membership in NATO mean for America?
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Is a U.S.-Russia War Becoming Inevitable?
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At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland?
If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki's defense and fight Russia on Finland's side.
What does Finland's membership in NATO mean for America?
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Buchanan points out that NATO membership has doubled since the end of the Cold War, and that it includes former Soviet Republics. The original point of NATO was defense against the Warsaw Pact. The US historically did nothing in these countries when "freedom" was a stake. Now we use this as license to intervene directly or otherwise in places where we have no national interest. And here we are, supplying the Ukrainians (and likely with advisers on the ground there) who peddle "badly needed" weaponry on the black arms market...all for "freedom", I suppose.