[temp]

>Bush Sr promised that NATO wouldn't expand into the former Soviet Union

Surely that was a decision to be made by the relevant countries themselves and not Bush Sr of the United States.

[hindsightbias]

When the $21 Trillion EU puts their big boy pants on and form their own army, they can have agency (Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, etc, etc).

Until then, the 900# red white & blue gorilla of NATO is driving. Folks don’t like it? Well, time to stop whistling “The Yanks Are Coming” every time they want to tussle with their neighborhood.

[hollerith]

Any NATO member can veto the accession of a new member.

[nopenopenopeno]

That’s not how empires work