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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Ukraine cable proves US government knew of fascist threat [View all]Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)but ALSO use the Baltics, the NATO members who are actually on their borders, to cooperate with NATO on Afghanistan? I can't even begin to make sense of that.
It should be noted, by the way, that that EU agreement you originally cited is with the EU, not NATO. Sweden, for instance, is a member of the EU but not NATO. So is Finland. They're talking to each other now because of Ukraine about cooperating with each other, and are probably as I write this thinking more seriously about joining NATO. But, membership in and cooperation with the military of the one <> membership in the other. So citing that has in fact nothing to do with this debate.
Which is SOP for all this. Throw all kinds of unrelated or tangentially related crap up, see what sticks.
Ukraine was never up for NATO membership, so that's out.
The agreement you cited was with the EU, and as I noted above, membership in or association with the EU, which is ALL that was being offered to Ukraine, <> membership in NATO.
Russia's doctrine makes no sense given that map re Afghanistan.
You can attempt to throw it all together in a big pot and stew it, but I think you need to turn the temperature up a bit if you want anything that tastes good.