It baffles me how the “North Atlantic” keeps growing in its geographic extent. I suppose Italy, Greece and Turkey are connected to the North Atlantic via the Mediterranean Sea. And I suppose Georgia and Ukraine would have been indirectly connected via the Black Sea and Turkish straits into the Mediterranean. But Japan and Mongolia (I thi…
It baffles me how the “North Atlantic” keeps growing in its geographic extent. I suppose Italy, Greece and Turkey are connected to the North Atlantic via the Mediterranean Sea. And I suppose Georgia and Ukraine would have been indirectly connected via the Black Sea and Turkish straits into the Mediterranean. But Japan and Mongolia (I think the US once was thinking of including even this landlocked nation) have no physical connection to the North Atlantic. Of course the real object is not merely a “mutual defensive alliance,” a concept belied by the wars of aggression against Serbia, but rather the encirclement Russia. But frankly calling it a “Circum-Russia Treaty Organization” would have been too straightforward.
Curiously the “rules based order” rationalization for the wars of aggression against Serbia of a “humanitarian duty to intervene” to protect non-Serbian minority groups ironically could also be rightfully claimed by Russia as a legal precedent for the SMO . But this goes to show that the “rules” are meant to be privileged to the West and not meant as universal principles applicable and accessible to all nations equally.
It baffles me how the “North Atlantic” keeps growing in its geographic extent. I suppose Italy, Greece and Turkey are connected to the North Atlantic via the Mediterranean Sea. And I suppose Georgia and Ukraine would have been indirectly connected via the Black Sea and Turkish straits into the Mediterranean. But Japan and Mongolia (I think the US once was thinking of including even this landlocked nation) have no physical connection to the North Atlantic. Of course the real object is not merely a “mutual defensive alliance,” a concept belied by the wars of aggression against Serbia, but rather the encirclement Russia. But frankly calling it a “Circum-Russia Treaty Organization” would have been too straightforward.
Curiously the “rules based order” rationalization for the wars of aggression against Serbia of a “humanitarian duty to intervene” to protect non-Serbian minority groups ironically could also be rightfully claimed by Russia as a legal precedent for the SMO . But this goes to show that the “rules” are meant to be privileged to the West and not meant as universal principles applicable and accessible to all nations equally.