What Defines a NATO Country?
Depending on your definition, Russian aggression is the best NATO accelerant
Question: what makes a NATO country? This question is a fitting place to start, is it not? Is it specific characteristics such as military equipment for a common defense? Or is it a formal declaration made?
Because if being a NATO country doesn’t require a formal declaration, then Ukraine is functionally a NATO nation. And Russia made them as such.
Let’s talk about it.
NATO is an agreement of various nations to protect each other if aggression is inflicted upon one of the member groups. This agreement will include a shared weapons trade, which ranges from sharing the same family of bullets for hand-held weapons to massive arms deals such as procuring NATO-associated tanks, aircraft, anti-air defense, field artillery, armored personnel carriers, and various forms of intelligence collection technologies. This security alliance also includes the sharing and access of military training between member nations.
From my standpoint, NATO is a security alliance — a team of nations who, while having their own issues and identities, are supposed to team up against a common threat- kind of like the Avengers in Marvel Comics.
