correct putin expressed interest but never followed through but just as with the USSR ....that would just have been in order to attempt to subvert NATO ....provide the veto that would make it as powerless as the UN is so would not have been allowed
until recent times NATO countries were fairly complacent ..... were doing big business with russia and wanted that to continue ....and were not inclined to spend much on defense in general .......but putin changed all that with this war
putin will be remebered as the man that reinvigorated NATO ....and caused two incredibly strategically imortant nations to join . one of the many reasons this war by him was A GIGANTIC mistake
