Subject: Re: War, currencies and jurisdictions
It wasn't NATO expanding, it was countries asking to join the club: that's how a new member comes to be. All the existing members did is agree to the applications,

That's just a word game.
Playing a word game does not hide the fact of "NATO expanding eastward."

And it doesn't really matter what NATO thinks about it, what matters is what Russia thinks.

Actually, it's not "what NATO thinks", it is "what NATO pretends to think".

Everybody with more than a room temperature IQ knows that NATO was purposely moving toward Russia.

Looking at a map, can anybody explain how Turkey is North Atlantic?

As the great Fred Thompson said, "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."