Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves
by blub on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:32AM
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Afaik the NATO mission in Yugoslavia and Libya were the two big ones. Both misused NATO and were not defensive in nature.
Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves
by asdajksah2123 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:53PM
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And none of them were targeted against Russia.
For the obvious reason that NATO countries are largely rich, peaceful, and doing pretty ok and are not gonna waste their time and energy attacking a nation with f'ing nuclear weapons.
Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves
by pydry on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:50PM
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Oh it was. If you thought it was coincidence that they were both Russian allies you'd be utterly wrong.
You're right that NATO definitely isnt interested in committing to a full scale ground invasion of Russia.
Similarly the British were never interested in committing to a full scale invasion of India. Therefore they were... never a threat?
The war crimes committed during the NATO Libyan intervention - with a deliberate emphasis on regime change and creating a failed state - sparked the same fear in Russia that the Ukraine invasion sparked in Finland.
Russia already went through a period of internal collapse and being ruled by an American puppet, too, so the feeling that "they could make it happen again" is pretty visceral.