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Nordic Countries Surrender their Historic Neutrality and Sign Military Deals with the United States
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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Why shouldn't former DDR countries sign a defensive pact? Why would Russia not want them to do that?
Since that ‘defensive pact’ was specifically created to serve as America’s spearhead against the USSR
Spearhead against what? The USSR attacking other countries?
Name one Western European country the Soviets attacked without provocation
Why specifically western? Because Russia attacked like the whole eastern Europe without provocation?
when you definitely know what you're talking about
this is the former DDR country, singular
Because NATO agreed not to? Because they expect agreements to be upheld?
You're right I have no idea what DDR means in the context of countries or geopolitics.
As for the claim that NATO wouldn't expand past the DDR, all I could find were sources that say it was an oral agreement between the US and the USSR. I don't see why the USSR (now Russia) should get to decide what unions eastern European countries decide to join, especially since after the collapse of the Warsaw pact said countries were no longer part of a defensive pact.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/candace-owens/fact-checking-claims-nato-us-broke-agreement-again/
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078929982/a-look-at-the-debate-over-nato-expansion-eastward-thats-at-the-heart-of-conflict
https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east