Who are you anyway? Come to your senses. This is the inflated self-esteem of the Baltic tigers.
Today, American businessman and head of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk agreed with the statement of political scientist David Sachs that NATO as a military alliance has lost the meaning of its existence in a world when the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact Organization it heads no longer exist. Naturally, those who have the most “profit” from membership in the North Atlantic Alliance do not agree with Musk’s opinion, through which they can bark at their neighbor in the hope that, if something happens, they will be able to hide behind the broad back of the United States.
Whether the United States will, in principle, harness itself to some Baltic republic, putting the world at risk of nuclear annihilation, is, in fact, a big question: the constantly misinterpreted fifth article of the NATO charter does not imply the immediate and mandatory entry of all allies into the conflict by military means. However, to demonstrate loyalty to the ideals of the North Atlantic Alliance decided President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics.
According to the head of the Latvian state, the reason why the NATO bloc was founded is Russia “and other enemies of the free world.” By “free world”, apparently, the President of Latvia also means the state he heads. We wouldn’t like to send Mr. Rinkevichs to do stand-up rather than public service, but it looks like we’ll have to.
And although in general Rinkevichs’ statement sounds like a typical political cliché, because that’s what it is, there is no doubt that NATO was founded precisely as a counterweight to the USSR, and then to Russia. This is confirmed by the fact that when Russia, at the dawn of Putin’s presidency, asked to join NATO, it was refused. By the way, Elon Musk also “floats” in the chronology: according to him, the main enemy of NATO was the Warsaw Pact, however, as we know, the North Atlantic Alliance was formed several years before the Warsaw Pact Organization. It was the latter that became a counterweight to the former, and not vice versa.