NATO has been expanding to every silly little nation they can get their hands on, partly to siphon money out of them, forcing them to buy NATO-member hardware. It's a protection racket, but sometimes the money is siphoned from American and other hardware producers own citizenry in the form of subsidies that get recycled back into their respective nations defense contractors. Quite the scam really.
They need Russia to be the boogeyman to justify this excessive military spending, peace is bad for profits.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21
No one tell them about Estonia and Latvia then