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After the Soviet Union collapsed depriving NATO of its original reason for existence, skeptics of the alliance included [[liberal]]s as much as [[conservative]]s. In 1998, 10 Democratic Senators joined nine Republicans in opposing the first, fateful round of NATO enlargement with [[Hungary]], the [[Czech Republic]], and [[Poland]] added, extending the alliance to Russia's border. Among the dissenters was Senator [[Paul Wellstone]] of Minnesota. In between voting against the first Iraq war in 1991 and the second after Sept. 11, Sen. Wellstone warned that expanding NATO would jeopardize Europe's hard-won gains. “There is peace between states in Europe, between nations in Europe, for the first time in centuries,” he said. “We do not have a divided Europe, and I worry about a NATO expansion which could redivide Europe and again poison relations with Russia.”<ref>https://quincyinst.org/2021/06/14/sorry-liberals-but-you-really-shouldnt-love-nato/</ref>
After the Soviet Union collapsed depriving NATO of its original reason for existence, skeptics of the alliance included [[liberal]]s as much as [[conservative]]s. In 1998, 10 Democratic Senators joined nine Republicans in opposing the first, fateful round of NATO enlargement with [[Hungary]], the [[Czech Republic]], and [[Poland]] added, extending the alliance to Russia's border. Among the dissenters was Senator [[Paul Wellstone]] of Minnesota. In between voting against the first Iraq war in 1991 and the second after Sept. 11, Sen. Wellstone warned that expanding NATO would jeopardize Europe's hard-won gains. “There is peace between states in Europe, between nations in Europe, for the first time in centuries,” he said. “We do not have a divided Europe, and I worry about a NATO expansion which could redivide Europe and again poison relations with Russia.”<ref>https://quincyinst.org/2021/06/14/sorry-liberals-but-you-really-shouldnt-love-nato/</ref>
==US domestic opposition==
As the ''[[New York Times]]'' wrote back in 1998, "Ben & Jerry's is against expanding NATO. So is [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the arch-conservative activist. ... 'It would obligate us to go to war to defend the borders in Eastern Europe,' said Mrs. Schlafly, who founded the 80,000-member Eagle Forum. 'We don't think that's an [[American]] responsibility. We see this as one [[Bosnia]] after another.'<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/world/bedfellows-of-every-stripe-in-nato-fray.html</ref> NATO was never intended to be "the world's policeman," nor is it an enforcement arm or extension of the [[United Nations]]. [[President Donald Trump]] was highly critical of how the United States has been saddled with the bulk of the cost throughout its history while [[Europe]] has not paid its agreed upon mandated share of defense costs.
NATO carried out the bombing of civilians in [[Serbia]] during the [[Clinton Administration]],<ref>NATO also caused the subsequent imprisonment of its president [[Slobodan Milosevic]] until he died in prison after being denied his request for medical care.</ref> fomented the [[Libyan war]] in which it aligned itself with [[al Qaeda]] elements during the [[Obama administration]], and has been criticized for its provocative actions towards [[Russia]] in the [[Russia Ukraine conflict 2022|Russia Ukraine conflict in 2022]] under the [[Biden regime]]. The NATO organization has aligned itself with self-proclaimed Nazis in Ukraine war.<ref>https://journal-neo.org/2019/02/17/ukraines-neo-nazis-suddenly-a-problem-as-power-grows/</ref> NATO began arming, equipping, and training [[Nazi]] groups in [[Ukraine]] in 2015 for the specific aim to overthrow the legitimate government of [[Russia]]. NATO recruited [[neo-Nazi]] [[mercenaries]] from across the planet to train in Ukraine.
On March 19, 2021, NATO held its first conference promoting [[LGBTQ+]] goals.<ref>https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_182424.htm</ref> ''See also'' "What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think."<ref>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/28/what-does-a-pride-parade-have-to-do-with-nato-more-than-you-might-think/</ref>
NATO's official website states its political motive under [[Orwellian]] language: "NATO promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate on defence and security-related issues to solve problems, build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict."<ref>https://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/index.html Retrieved August 7, 2019.</ref> Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has waged two wars of aggression, one against [[Serbia]] to carve out the state of [[Kosovo]], which increased the crime rate in Kosovo as it was also turned into a hotbed of human and organ trafficking,<ref>https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo_thaci_organ_trafficking/2248967.html</ref> and another in [[Libya]] which resulted in chaos and the return of the slave trade in Black Africans.
==Russian reaction==
==Russian reaction==
At the February 2007 Munich Security Conference President Putin said.
At the February 2007 Munich Security Conference President Putin said.
{{quotebox-float|"I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the [[Warsaw Pact]]? No one even remembers them."<ref>https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/19/patrick-lawrence-munich-as-propaganda-fest</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the [[Warsaw Pact]]? No one even remembers them."<ref>https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/19/patrick-lawrence-munich-as-propaganda-fest</ref>}}
Russian defense minister [[Sergei Shoigu]] said at the opening of the 10th Moscow International Security Conference in August 2022:
{{quotebox-float|"The unconditional dominance of the US and its allies is a thing of the past. On February 24, 2022, the start of the [[special military operation]] in Ukraine marked the end of the [[unipolar]] world. Multipolarity has become a reality. The poles of this world are clearly defined. The main difference between them is that some respect the interests of sovereign states and take into account the cultural and historical particularities of countries and peoples, while others disregard them. There have been numerous discussions on this topic during previous sessions of the Moscow conference. In Europe, the security situation is worse than at the peak of the Cold War. The alliance’s military activities have become as aggressive and anti-Russian as possible. Significant US forces have been redeployed to the continent, and the number of coalition troops in Eastern and Central Europe has increased manifold.
It is important to note that the deployment of additional NATO Joint Force formations on the bloc’s “eastern flank” had already started before the start of the special military operation in Ukraine. NATO has dropped its masks. The aggressive nature of the bloc was no longer concealed by the wording of the coalition’s purely defensive orientation. Today, the alliance’s strategic planning documents enshrine claims to global dominance. Alliance’s interests include [[Africa]], the [[Middle East]] and the Pacific Rim.
In the West’s view, the established system of international relations should be replaced by a so-called [[rules-based world order]]. The logic here is simple and ultimatumatic. Either the alliance’s “democratic partner” candidate loses sovereignty and becomes supposedly on the “right side of history”. Or it is relegated to the category of so-called [[authoritarian]] regimes, against which all kinds of measures, up to and including coercive pressure, can be used."<ref>https://thesaker.is/welcoming-speech-of-the-russian-minister-of-defence-at-the-opening-of-10th-moscow-conference-on-international-security/</ref>}}
==References==
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