Wels wrote:
"Nato declares Russia ‘direct threat’ to security" [...]
QatzelOk wrote:Isn't this why NATO was created in the first place?
Yes, Nato was created because Russia was a direct threat to all the nations that existed east of the soviet border after WW2. When the western allies went back to their countries and withdrew their armies, Russia did not. The US and England kept some troops in Berlin for obvious reasons.
Russia had "liberated" half of Germany, and
occupied all those countries like Poland, the Chech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Balkans and so on. Only after it tried to get its hands also on Greece the US intervened and stopped Russia in its tracks, called the Truman doctrine. Google it.
To keep Soviet communism out of Europe?
Side effect. Of course anti-communism was strong in the US culminating in the McCarthy area, but they had some reason to act the way they did.
First it was of course the soviets superficially being critical on anti-capitalist ideas (was of course a pretext, Russia was as corrupt as the west), on the other hand soviet "communism" was anything but, but sheer imperialism under false flag.
Worthy opponents, and both understood each other well, cold war and all that
Of course, Russia isn't communist anymore.
It never was. Stalin dictatorship only (ab)used the idea of communism as an antithesis to the west. No one in Russia was "equal" or "free", the working masses were subdued or killed, whatever seemed fit.
Won't comment on the rest of the bullsh!t.