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Old 07-12-2018, 06:15 PM  
slapass
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
NATO was originally created to defend Europe from the Soviet Union (and so on). However, this has changed in the past two decades. While you can still argue Europe needs to be defending from Russia, the truth is it was Europe who has come to the defense of the United States and assisted us in both Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same, the United States needs bases in Europe in order to continue to operate in certain areas.
Wasn’t that as part of the U.N. actions versus a NATO action? They would still do that.
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