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to 76%, according to the last opinion poll. speaking to finland's foreign minister this morning, he told me that the finns were practical people and were just looking to defend themselves better. we have had security mechanisms in europe like the osce, which should — which is built to to avoid war and military conflicts. and now, we have seen that this security order does not function in europe. russia did not trust this mechanism, we refuses mechanism — instead that planned war against ukraine, of course, this is something that we cannot accept. and we are currently in this kind of limbo for european security structures. there's no structure to prevent in wars europe at the moment. —— there's no structure to prevent in wars in europe at the moment. so, as we heard there from finland's foreign minister, i mean, the post—cold war security order was really turned upside down across europe, but nowhere more so than here in the east.
polls forjoining nato, suddenly to 76%, according to the last opinion poll. speaking to finland's foreign minister this morning, he told me that the finns were practical people and were just looking to defend themselves better. we have had security mechanisms in europe like the osc which are meant to avoid war and military conflicts. and now we have seen that this security order does not function in europe — russia did not trust this mechanism, we refuses mechanism — instead that planned war against ukraine, of course, this is something that we cannot accept. and we are currently in this kind of limbo for european security structures. there's no structure to prevent in wars europe at the moment. so, as we heard there from finland's foreign minister, the post—cold war security order was really turned upside down across europe,
QUESTION: Hi Martin, I work on defense issues for my job, but I am no Neocon. Second Strike works just fine too or more likely "Launch Under Attack" (LUA), and even with older weapons. Everybody goes down together and most likely via miscalculation especially given possible Nuclear Winter which given Volcano data actually looks plausible. No
expansion? journalist, broadcaster, and author tim marshall explains how maps may hold the answer. >> it's worth a glance at history and a good look at a map. in the cold war, europe was split more or less in two, the nato countries in the west, but post-cold war, country after country wanted to join nato and it's moved up to russian's borders. to understand why russia feels nervous about that, a topographical map is useful. there's a mountain range running across europe, the carpathian mountains. through the flat ground have come many others who invaded russia from that direction and that makes russia very nervous.
in the entire post—cold war era"? look, i don't... i think the enlargement of nato was the single wisest security decision taken in europe in the last three decades. imagine the citizens of warsaw, prague, and budapest if they were not guaranteed their security by nato�*s article five. imagine where they would be right today. imagine the citizens of the baltic states and the threat that they would feel from putin's russia. i mean, we're talking about tens of millions of peaceful citizens across eastern europe that would potentially be suffering the exact same fate as the citizens of ukraine are today. that's not a place we would want to be. nato is a defensive alliance, stephen. so nato has never posed a serious threat to russia. and all you have to do is look at the nato infrastructure on russia's borders. look at the battalions that nato has deployed to the baltic states and compare that
after 2014 as well. as far as nato, consider this. if we had not enlarged nato — and by the way, it wasn't nato that decided to expand into other countries — it is countries seeing the threat coming from russia, desperately wanting to join nato so that they could have some protection. well, with respect, it's a two—way street, of course. you know, there is a feeling in many of the post—soviet east european countries that they wanted the protection of nato, but the existing nato membership had to want to embrace them and feel that was a wise thing to do. i mean, you're a very experienced diplomat. did you never read george kennan before his death writing and saying, "expanding nato would be the most fateful error of american policy in the entire post—cold war era"? look, i don't... i think the enlargement of nato was the single wisest security decision taken in europe