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rsynnott on March 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine

I think to a large extent that was (and was perceived as) really just the administration saying that, rather than US expert and military leadership.

jacquesm on March 2, 2022 [–]

I think it was in response to Trump's statements about NATO being superfluous:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden...

That put a fire under the whole thing and made it much more clear what the various obligations would be.

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