Thread by @ColSanjayPande

1/ #MyTakeOnNATO My take on NATO. NATO is 73 yrs old. Today it has 30 members, 28 in Europe & 2 in North America, USA and Canada. At 2% of GDP to be spent for Defence, you don’t have to guess who pulls the cart. Of the 28 European nations, more than 10 nations are inconsequential

2/ #MyTakeOnNATO USA had just one aim in mind while creating NATO- exploit the ‘fear-factor’ in European nations post WW2 and contain speard of communism or USSR. The intense rivalry with Russia fed the fear. Ukraine was the only country fully hostile toward Russia and was

3/ #MyTakeOnNATO ..on verge of being admitted in NATO. Highest stakes were of US. While towards North, Belarus is pro-Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are too small to matter. North of these three is Finland, again, though NATO, not a threat. That leaves only Ukraine. A big

4/ #MyTakeOnNATO ..country. It is the main entrance into Russia. Russia loses its strategic depth with NATO.Russia will do anything to prevent NATO take Ukraine in its fold. Russia will leave nothing in Ukraine. It started by making Ukraine landlocked, capture & annex territories

5/ #MyTakeOnNATO and reduce Ukraines strategic value to NATO. Why will US be interested in a landlocked and reduced in size Ukraine? It gives NATO no military advantage. Russia is attacking that very logic which made Ukraine strategically important for NATO. Now NATO..

6/ #MyTakeOnNATO .. this is not NATO’s war. Why is NATO involved? The very foundation of NATO is threatened. To dismantle NATO all Russia needs to do is to threaten each country’s survival. Why attack? Why give NATO a reason to combine? Russia is targeting NATO countries where it

7/ #MyTakeOnNATO ..hurts most. Winters and cold. I have been in UK for three winter months in 2021. Let me assure you, an Indian who has not been there cannot imagine what life is in winters. I have seen Darbuk(Pangong Tso), it comes close to those winters. Do you now see why is

8/ #MyTakeOnNATO ..Russia dragging the conflict to winters? Imagine 28 European nations, luxurious life, highest per capita income, now being forced into winters with no central heating in homes. Each of these 28 governments will come under local pressure. Cracks are getting wide

9/Last #MyTakeOnNATO .. France has fired the first salvo on why NATO? NATO is a military alliance but without any war all 28 countries are facing crisis of survival. Russia has a simple aim in its #5thGenWar ‘Dismantle NATO’ and make US irrelevant. It is succeeding so far.