David Hoffman
What is Nato and who are its members? Nato, short for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a Western military alliance created in 1949 by 12 countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the U.S...
Why were the U.S., France, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union in charge of the Security Council after World War II? Why were other countries left out? Why are there states in America? Why did Ontario join the Canadian Confederation?
Russian President Vladimir Putin had longcomplained of NATO's eastward expansionin Europe and sought to prevent additional countries from joining. Having framed the spread of the alliance's influence and military presence on the ground toward Russia's border as a threat, he used it as one of th...
Turkey—ratified Finland’s entry into NATO but blocked that of Sweden. That they allowed NATO to welcome Finland, which—unlike Sweden—has a direct border with Russia, shows that it is not the war in Ukraine that troubles these two countries. They have other problems, directly with Sweden....
who also formed an alliance known as AUKUS to enhance their military capabilities in the Pacific region, is ironic in light of their condemnation of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The alliance that called Russia's concerns about Ukraine joining NATO as illegitimate is now calli...
a principal demand of russia is to prevent ukraine from joining nato , a military alliance between 30 european countries and two north american countries dedicated to preserving peace and security in the north atlantic area. ukraine is one of just a few countries in eastern europe that aren’t...
Geopolitical competition between NATO countries and other powers has replaced the liberal internationalism of the past decades that framed space as neutral. Instead, it has become a domain of strategic competition. We are in a period reminiscent of when Sputnik, the Moon landing, and the Strategic...
build a greater Russia. Rather, since the 2008 Bucharest summit Russian leaders have repeatedly said that they view Ukraine joining nato as an existential threat that must be prevented. As Mr Lavrov noted in January, “the key to everything is the guarantee that nato will not expand eastward....
So the free trade that’s being given up is trade with the most prosperous growing market in the world. China, Russia, and the other countries that the neocons are imposing sanctions on precisely because they are growing and becoming more self-sufficient. And that gr...