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2008-08-19 Europe

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-19 15:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sixty years after the alliance was signed, can anyone tell me what it's for?

Getting America to foot their military welfare system they devised when they figured out that the American politicians were gullible enough to allow them to. They were/are prepared to die to the last American [and in a massive exchange that included the citizenry back in North America]. In exchange they'd spend their budgets and future income on massive socialist welfare programs to remain in power back home.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-19 17:21|| 2008-08-19 17:21|| Front Page Top

#2 This guy thinks like an Englishman. Lots of bad blood in the old republics, I bet Poland and Czechs would fight, Baltics too.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-19 17:23|| 2008-08-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Gas Factory.

Lucky Georgia wasn't a member, huh? That could have been rather embarrassing.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-08-19 17:35|| 2008-08-19 17:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Krauthammer tonight on Brit's Special Report (minus Brit), "We all owe Former Sec of Def an apology for the problems he encountered for his Old Europe, New Europe remark, because we are now seeing Old Europe and New Europe's response to this. Old Europe willing to do nothing, and New Europe standing beside Georgia."

(some paraphrasing there, but that was his message.)

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-08-19 19:19|| 2008-08-19 19:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Lucky Georgia wasn't a member, huh? That could have been rather embarrassing.

You're absolutely correct.

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-19 19:34|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-19 19:34|| Front Page Top

#6 See WAFF.com Thread > EUROPE [Year]2025.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-19 20:03|| 2008-08-19 20:03|| Front Page Top

#7 its obvious that it MATTERS whether one is a member state or not. Thats why Georgia so much wanted to be IN NATO, and why Russia so much didnt want them to be. Ditto the Ukraine. I dont know how people, in that context, jump from NATOs failure to go to war for a NON-MEMBER to the notion that they wouldnt go to war for a member.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-19 20:41|| 2008-08-19 20:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course it does, liberalhawk.

That's why Germany's veto, preventing Georgia and Ukraine from even starting the process of applying to be considered for membership, was such a green flag for Russian aggression.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-19 20:49|| 2008-08-19 20:49|| Front Page Top

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