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Originally Posted by Dominic
Including Montenegro in NATO protects it from fascist aggression - Russia. that's why NATO was established in the first place - to protect a bunch of small, democratic-minded countries from the Soviet Union. Stopping there spread of communism (then) and fascism (now) is a benefit to the U.S. If you're strictly looking for utility reasons - it creates and protects new trade partners.
But another reason to allow Montenegro into NATO in order to protect it from Russia is, that it's the right thing to do.
edit: I see you were being sarcastic....so never mind.
Okay, serious talk.
There's one thing with that democracy part--majority of Montenegro people don't want to join NATO.
The gov't is currently a total mess. I dont' think they're even democratic. (turkey isn't and they're in NATO btw).
Putin has been screwing with them though.
"the right thing to do" was the argument for going into Iraq and we only made it worse.
Still, it doesn't do much for us, they aren't a EU country, and as previously stated, they're not gonna pull their weight in the alliance of people not pulling their weight (one ****ing thing trump is right on, but I suspect his statement is for entirely different reasons)
If this is pure **** Putin okay, but the other arguments are rather weak.