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Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by Decabytes on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:47AM (#30990425)
> John Mearsheimer made the analogy "What if China became close allies with Canada and stationed troops and missiles north of the border, how would the USA react?"

I think we have an clear example of how this _could_ play out. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

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Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by TheCoelacanth on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:46PM (#30991428)
The USSR's alliance with Cuba is a good analogy. The US viewed deploying nuclear weapons to Cuba as provocation, but did nothing to prevent the alliance itself, which continued for decades after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Merely joining a defensive alliance is not provocation.

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Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by bayesian_horse on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#30990892)
It's completely stupid to compare the Cuban Missile Crisis with NATO expansion. You need to completely ignore history to do that. And the only motivation would be to justify the motives of a dictator, mass murder and war criminal....
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Re:Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as summer by Decabytes on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:45PM (#30995503)
My reply is based on the sentence which I quoted in my original comment. It was about the U.S and how it would respond to missiles near its borders. Please don't take my comment out of context
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