The World Wars & the Postwar Order
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Summary
The talk explains what NATO is: its founding, the Warsaw Pact as its counterpart, its expansion, and its present military weight.
Ukraine wants in because of Article 5, under which an attack on one member is an attack on all.
The obstacle is that admitting a member with an active territorial dispute would pull the whole alliance into a war immediately.
Key points
Article 5 is both the attraction and the barrier
The guarantee that makes membership desirable is the same reason existing members hesitate.
Post-Cold War expansion remains contested
One side sees sovereign states exercising a right; the other sees encroachment.
Combined military strength is not usable strength
An alliance that must agree before it moves works slower than the numbers suggest.
The charge of talk without action has a basis
In several crises the response stayed at the level of statements, and the talk does not hide it.