So basically GNU style formatting?

Russia has nuclear weapons. That was and will be a sufficient security guarantee.

I think I simply don’t share your view that it takes violence/terror against civilians for a conflict to be labeled a war (at least that’s what your previous comment seems to imply, you may correct me at any time).

I doubt you are incapable, so I will just call it intellectual dishonesty.

Thanks, very nice from you, comrade :D

Soldiers of Russia enter Ukraine and kill Ukrainian soliders. How would you call it if not war?

Why is your username nachtigall?

See this comment from 2 month ago. Never heard of Stepan Bandera and the battalion before.

You calling something “hardly” does not matter. After all, Ukraine is also just 1 country by your logic, just like Spain, right?

My point was rather that Spain is in the far west of Europe and therefore I would hardly call it eastward expansion.

I meant 1949 and not 1959 to demonstrate NATO expansion

Makes more sense in that case, especially considering Greece and Turkey.

Also, I think, one can debate whether German reunification in 1990 counts as expansion since the 2+4 treaty states that no NATO troops may be placed permanently in eastern Germany and as far as I know this was not violated yet.

Wrong facts. NATO’s eastward expansion has been going on since 1959, and we are not living in 1989.

Between 1959 and 1998 only Spain became a new NATO member (see your own graphic) which I would hardly call eastward expansion 🤨