NATO Declares Russia “Threat to Our Way of Life,” Asks Finland and Sweden to Join Bloc

It’s kind of hilarious that we are now closer to World War III and/or a nuclear exchange than we ever were during the Cold War, but now the whole thing is a joke.

During the Cold War, it was this big serious business – communism v. freedom! – now it’s just a completely confusing hoax where no one can even explain what the purpose of this is.

The entire “Russia hacked the election for Donald Trump” theory was that Russia was undermining American elections to make peace between the West and Russia. So that’s the threat now – that Russia is trying to make peace?

We have to go to war with Russia to prevent peace from breaking out?

Reuters:

NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday to join the military alliance in one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed Helsinki and Stockholm to drop their traditional of neutrality.

NATO’s 30 allies took the decision at their summit in Madrid and also agreed to formally treat Russia as the “most significant and direct threat to the allies’ security”, according to a summit statement.

“Today, we have decided to invite Finland and Sweden to become members of NATO,” NATO leaders said in their declaration, after Turkey lifted a veto on Finland and Sweden joining.

Ratification in allied parliaments is likely to take up to a year, but once it is done, Finland and Sweden will be covered by NATO’s Article 5 collective defence clause, putting them under the United States’ protective nuclear umbrella.

“We will make sure we are able to protect all allies, including Finland and Sweden,” Stoltenberg said.

In the meantime, the allies are set to increase their troop presence in the Nordic region, holding more military exercises and naval patrols in the Baltic Sea to reassure Sweden and Finland.

After four hours of talks in Madrid on Tuesday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed with his Finnish and Swedish counterparts a series of security measures to allow the two Nordic countries to overcome the Turkish veto that Ankara imposed in May due to its concerns about terrorism.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded in 1949 to defend against the Soviet threat. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine gave the organisation a new impetus after failures in Afghanistan and internal discord during the era of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

We are sending a strong message to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin: ‘you will not win’,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a speech.

Allies also agreed on NATO’s first new strategic concept – its master planning document – in a decade. Russia, previously classed as a strategic partner of NATO,isnow identified as NATO’s main threat.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “a direct threat to our Western way of life,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo added, citing the wider impact of the war, such as rising energy and food prices.

At least they’ve given up on trying to claim that Russia is losing against the Ukraine, I guess.

Now Russia is not only beating the poorest country in Europe in a lopsided conflict, but they’re also going to threaten the entire Western way of life by… by doing what? What are we talking about here?

I understand what communism is, and I understand why people feared communism. I literally have no idea what is even being discussed at this point.

What is the evil plan of Russia?