2007-12-13 08:47:31 · 11 answers · asked by Derrick Q 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yes,it is the greatest European power and it is indispensable
to Europe;naturally they feel threatened by NATO and of course they want their place as a superpower,something they lost with the fall of communism.
(They will be good democrats in due course but luck the experience;after all a Russian was never really free in his history so the experiment is less than twenty years old and very brave...)
If they are invited to enter NATO and accept,automatically the borders of the alliance become the entire Globe and I am fairly certain That North Koreans,Chinese and Persians(Iranis)will not feel altogether very...comfortable feeling the hot breath of the alliance on their backs...and TERRORISM will probably die a very... unatural death...
2007-12-13 19:14:55 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Russia doesn't want to be in NATO - they don't trust them. One of the reasons they pulled out of the CFE is because they felt they were the only country seriously enforcing it. They also believe that the missile defense Bush/NATO want to be in Eastern Europe is aimed at them, and they don't like NATO that close to their borders because they view them as a foreign military force (which in some sense, they are).
But if you read any of Putin's speeches, you'll see that he stresses multilateralism all the time. And as someone else answered, there is a council between Russia and NATO to facilitate cooperation. How well it's working is up for debate though...
2007-12-13 13:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by Carrot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There already is a NATO-Russia Council established by the Treaty of Rome and it went into effect on May 28, 2002. In addition, the Russian Federation has observer and consultant status at NATO's military headquarters in Belgium.
2007-12-13 10:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Russian current political policies would block there entry in to NATO.
2. Russia as never shown any interest in belonging to NATO. and you cant force them to join.
As accepting E.U. and NATO standards would seriously cramp the new Russian Tsar Putin.
5. Putins multilateral-ism is directed towards a Russia- China-Iran alliance and not towards the West, he just wants the west to buy the oil and gas at his prices.
2007-12-13 22:23:09 · answer #4 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because they are currently trying to undermine it and our the main threat to NATO right now. Why do you think Russia was so pissed when NATO introduced several former Soviet satellite states into it?
2007-12-13 08:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To share something with Russia is quite damned stupid. isn't this the comparable Russia that at the instant retrieved ten Russian spies who have been solidly embedded in our midst. does not that say some thing with regard to the real objective of mom Russia because it pertains to the US ? i don't think 0bama to be clever sufficient to persist with newborn psychology in his dealings with Russia, yet that's what somebody is to anticipate in the event that they are to have faith that he's a minimum of bearing in ideas Russia's under exceeded dealings. In his footwear, 0bama ought to anticipate that it incredibly is Russia it is at the back of a brilliant style of the pleasantries interior the midsection east, each and every thing from conserving the Taliban armed and unsafe, to conserving Iran a stress to handle from a nuclear skill stand factor.
2016-12-17 17:14:56 · answer #6 · answered by ciprian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely not.
Because people want to have a good suicide cause.
For example: starting the nuke war with USA because Caucasian Georgia would attack Abhasia to restore its border.
(meanwhile Abhasia has never been part of Georgia).
Or start the war because Estonian would abuse Russian minorities.
I am sure that WW3 will arise from the question unknown 99% Western people.
2007-12-14 15:29:06 · answer #7 · answered by nicequestion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No based on the instability of the government, they have not asked and have threatened countries that have. The Russians are currently moving back towards a stronger military presence and wanting to use it to restore the glory and prestige of the country.
2007-12-13 08:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going to say no here. Seems to me that Russia is still pretty shaky and unstable and I'm not sure their form of democracy is truly democracy. Seems to me like many old timers in their politics are still operating under the Soviet model. But that's just my opinion.
2007-12-13 08:51:44 · answer #9 · answered by Mike S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No . . . Reference China in the WTO.
2007-12-13 08:50:32 · answer #10 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋