NATO, Back in Business at the Old Stand

“NATO, it piously said, cannot stop people from freely applying to join, can it? Of course, given that most of these countries wanted to be neutral originally – the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine in 1990 has these words: ‘The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs’ – it took time and money to persuade people to ‘freely’ apply. … By Patrick Armstrong.

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