Subject: Re: Trump announces oils sanctions relief
despite the fact that NATO was literally designed as an anti-Russian club.

A slight change in phrasing can add a lot of colour.

A perhaps more valid way to look at it is "a club of countries that would really rather not be attacked by Russia". So, yes, that's "anti Russia", if you like. But the change in phrasing certainly changes the impression one has of a small country near Russia asking to join. I would, in their shoes. Wouldn't you? And if they do, that's not an aggressive move--not by the country, and not by Nato.

The point of Nato's existence is simply to make it too costly to attack small countries one by one.

Jim