Admiral Beez
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I'd say yes, aren't they a full NATO member?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia–NATO_relations
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I'd say yes, aren't they a full NATO member?Does NATO have an obligation to defend Croatia?
Does NATO have an obligation to defend Croatia?
I'd say yes, aren't they a full NATO member?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia–NATO_relations
I'd say yes, aren't they a full NATO member?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia–NATO_relations
I don't know for the life of me why I forgot they were a NATO nation.
Albania and Montenegro too. Serbia is surrounded by NATO.I don't know for the life of me why I forgot they were a NATO nation.
It's due to the 1955 Austrian State Treaty which prohibits Austria from forming alliances with other countries andI've always been curious as to why Austria never joined NATO.
Being under foreign occupation does that.It's due to the 1955 Austrian State Treaty which prohibits Austria from forming alliances with other countries and
also prohibits any foreign military from being on Austrian territory.
I think there is also something in their constitution as well.
Austria certainly seems to be an odd bod in all of that.
Sometimes what seems like a good idea does have future ramifications........ invading neighbours and setting up puppet governments comes to mind.....Being under foreign occupation does that.
Move on for no particular reason to the next Carthage ?It's that whole "Carthage must be destroyed!" Mentality. Once the earth is salted, and the populace has been sold off into slavery, then what?
I wonder if Putin has considered this question?
I've always been curious as to why Austria never joined NATO.
The Anschluss meant that Austria was part of the German Reich. It, like Nebraska, wasn't a belligerent because it was not an independent sovereign state.That's a rather strict treaty, sort of like Japan.
Wonder if it has it's roots in the Austro-Hungarian Empire memory, since Austria wasn't a belligerent in WWII.
Putin misread the situation in Ukraine and the willingness of NATO and the world to intervene; so he expected a cakewalk. The invasion of Ukraine is going to enter history's list of large scale, geopolitical-changing military blunders, like Barbarossa and Pearl Harbour.With those numbers i wonder what benefit do the Russians, and Putin in particular, expect from this war.