The war in Ukraine seems to have galvanised the NATO alliance, with a renewed focus on newer members along its eastern flank. In this special episode, Sandra Gathmann takes #AJStartHere on the road to Lithuania, and explains what’s happening and why.
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Putin scares them. What a legend
So what is happening to Ukraine now that Russia is one of the guarantors Ukriane’s security? NEVER TRUST EVILS!
If any country joins NATO again which was once soviet allies.. No one can stop 3rd world War.. Don’t escalate it
Excellent
noquarter for azov okrainians. they need to interogated by russion and take captivity . now they r begging for evacuation , but nobody of the 30 million okranians can evacuate them..the only ones who can save their lifes r … russion forces
It’s purpose has always been to stand against the Russians and control Europe through the US.
The civilized world should not recognize Russia in any form! they must be totally alienated, diplomatic missions closed and no visa should be allowed to their citizens. All products from Russia should be banned and all major forex should be stopped going into Russia, countries like UAE who harbor black money should be sanctioned. The west coward mentality is what energized putin as he knows they are too weak and scared to take him head on as is evident with this war. Germany the worst offender as they are funding this war paying putin 1B$ a day! Shame on Germany!
Nato was created by manufacturing “western values” or capital from the thin air NY and London bankers. Bankers love balkanized states with corrupt “independent” government they can offer loans.
Proverbs 14: 12🚩
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satanic (oath) vow🚩in the (path) road to (hostility) war (Revelation 17: 18).
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“The attack on one (Philippians 3: 19🚩) member is an attack on all of them (2 Peter 2: 17 – 19🚩).”
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1 John 3: 8🔥
YES NATO HAVE PURPOSE AFTER UKRAINE INVADED BY PUTIN’S RUSSIA & ALLIES !!!
Fake news. NATO is not any more defense organization. You are out of touch. Putin this Putin that. It is all about Russian wealth and it may be soon about the wealth of Qatar. No more free ride for west. Once a pirate is always a pirate and thief.
PUTIN’S BLOODLUST IS INSATIABLE: he’s turned into a monster vampire! He’s even rewarded the mass murderers/rapists who turned Bucha into blood-soaked rubble, thus encouraging his other thugs in Ukraine to commit even worse atrocities. Does he expect some of them to become cannibals to prove their loyalty?
Since Putin is getting older, he couldn`t wait 2 or 3 decades for NATO to just fade away and fall apart, mainly because of European apathy towards protecting itself. Trump, when he was president, told NATO partners they had to spend more on their mutual defense amounting to 2 percent of GDP and they refused! USA was paying for a large percentage of these countries defense and Europe could care less. Putin, sad to say gave NATO a jump start but it cost 10`s of thousands of lives in the process.Any time you do deals with the devil (Putin`s Russia and Xi`s China) you are going to be worse off than if you armed yourself to the teeth and you ostracize and quarantine the thugs and criminals of this world. Like the old saying”Play with fire and you will get burned”.
The problem is NATO
If Finland and Sweden joins then Russia will have a bigger war to fight
If NATO doesn’t wake up Russia will soon will take their countrus their can’t afford to sit back and brush it off beware Nato
Great reportage from Sandra here! Would love to see more similar content!
Putin does not want N.A.T.O on his border so he invades Ukraine. Once he takes the country entirely, he will be on the border of Poland, which is a N.A.T.O country. Putin is Stalin 2.0, and should be treated as such. He will continue to make up reasons to attack west. He is the enemy of all free men.
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If Russia joins NATO there will be no need for NATO anymore right 😉
Over night russia has shown the world the need for NATO.
I gotta say, I think most of us Romanians had a rude awakening and are glad we are in NATO. We just wish we could do more for our Moldavian and Ukrainian brothers who are not in EU and NATO.
Respect from US 🇺🇸 one for all, all for one ☝️
The 9th of May should be an anti-Putin day! LET’S GO PUTIN!
Germany has to get on board — right now buying as much Russian oil and gas that they can — this funds the war.
Ivo Sanader and Croatia were never circle of USSR, yet Jugoslavija but almost same ideology.
Russians thought when they invade Ukraine and approach to Kyiv, Zelenski would run and command structure of Ukraine would collapse, even before west can do anything about it. And it probably would, if Zelenski did that. An easy victory for Russia. But that did not happen, and an actor showed more courage compared to most carrier politicians. The moment he decided to stay and reinforce Kyiv, Russia lost its chance for a quick victory, and Ukraine used media quite well to make its case. Russia lost the claim that they `own` Ukraine and this was a `reaction` against NATO actions.
It’s not up to you to decide how Zelensky behaves. Ask the Ukrainians how Zelensky “supported” them?
Ahhhh she out of the chair 😧
It is not that NATO is doing something bad but it is putin being paranoid that russia will not be able to invade and own any country anymore.
New purpose? Purpose is same for the last 30 years. Military offensive!
Well done Al Jazeera, this is a pretty decent short film……. top job!!!!
Слава Україні, героям слава!!!!🇧🇧🇧🇧✌✌
nope
NATO iS eviL😰😰
Very good documentary,content is location driven.We want you to do more of like this one.
America and its western allies are the root of all the unrest in the world
Slavic peoples in NATO, American directive, in Europe, in addition to Russia’s nuclear power, and we want peace in Europe, impossible
Good episode but sad that
the Western Media shows only one side. East Europeans are angry. Not only on putin but also on the West. Only recent 2-3 years we started to feel „European enough, changes for better life we’re happening“ what West Media doesn‘t show, is that more and more Eastern Europeans a turning away from the West and Putin regime, yes the west helps a lot but there is a lot of hidden information which isn‘t that heroic and positive. Ukraine war is a loss for Putin and the West. We are tiered.
They should let Putin join NATO so the killings stop, also tell India to stop asking for more discount on Russian gas.
This isn’t a war documentary more than it shows to be a
Show off thrill video
Sandra is finally outside. Start here
Never forget who gives weapons to these people, the same countries that didn’t hesitate to turn on their own in the name of health and safety. Fascists backing fascists.
Uraaaa Rusia
Who cares!
EU BOYCOTT RUSSIAN OIL!!! NOW!!
Get out your electric bikes.
Six months should do it!
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His back yard funny, they are independent countries the can do what ever they feel they wanted to do, Putin is lunatic evil 👿
Nato is a crimial organisation… NATO = CRIMES Afghanistan, lybia are perfect illustration. Propaganda doesn’t work
The bottom line now is to make Ukraine a possible “springboard of missile” targeting the helpless “Russian People!” Of course, the main player in this “NATO EXPANSIONISM” is no one else but the “American Evil Empire.”😇❤👎🤑🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦👍👌🇪🇺
You don’t think Putin’s Russia is a threat? Just look at all the reactions from the countries of Eastern Countries that have felt the Russian boot on their neck. And remember, the traitor tRump wanted to disband NATO.
Nato axis of evil
I really enjoy Al Jazeera. I don’t now what it is but it gives me warm feeling.
Yes it Gives NATO Purpose to Invade Russia Now 👍👍👍
This Is The First Kind Of NATO Troops There Will Definitely Be Way More in The Future Wait to Africa an Rest Of World Come On Broad With NATO They Should Have There own Kind of NATO Very Helpful for All Those Small Vulnerable Countries NATO Will Have Military Advanced Technology Futuristic Soldier Suit’s and Weapons In The Future to Come NATO is The Future 👍👍👍
Sweden and Finland should join NATO before ethnic Russians heavily armored suddenly appear claiming parts of their country pro Russian and independent like in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
We are happy to be part of NATO family and if Baltics would get invaded, we will come to help you and defeat Russia, greetings from Slovakia and Slava Ukrajine!
It is naive to think so, in such situations there will be no peace anywhere, as well as states, only ashes around.
@ReSim we fight whatever cost, like if Russia is stupid to start this war, there is no other choice
Glad to see you back! I always enjoy your program. So clear and easy to understand. Keep up the great work!
NATO has no business in the East. NATO=USA and USA is anti democracy . They just want to hold the populated areas as slaves of the west.
The problem with NATO is that they have gotten too comfortable over the years and allowed that mass murderer Putin to get away with too much for too long. It is like they were afraid of him and didn’t want to confront him and Russia despite all the things he was doing all over the world!
Anyway, I sincerely hope that they now realise their mistakes and have finally learned their lesson! It’s just a shame that thousands of Ukrainians have to die before this madman is stopped!!
He won’t stop at Ukraine!!
Ronnie
North American Terrorist Organization is transparent at this time.
You lie and deceive people.
Europe population is against NATO.
Corrupt politicians push for murder under international Zionist cartel interests.
D U M B !!!
NATO didn’t have a real purpose since the fall of the USSR and is actually the cause of the current conflict.
It’s not even kept alive to protect Europe against Russia, but rather to keep Europe under US control, feed the profits of the US and UK military industrial complex and the bank accounts of their highly paid military leaches.
NATO can’t even confront Russia, if they need to, Russia will ennihilate the NATO forces.
Adding Finland and Sweden to NATO will not change the balance of power. Although they claim to be neutral, they are by all means and purposes already part of the alliance, except in name.
If Germany effectively elevates it’s military budget to 100 billion the situation will change.
Germany however was stupid enough to go along with the US sanctions game, punishing their own economy more than the Russians.
By now they learned that the German economy cannot function without cheap Russian energy and that there is no alternative in the near future.
Therefor they are putting up some resistance to new sanctions on Russian energy, but Scholz is about the weakest chancellor I can remember and will most probably cave to US and EU pressure, further undermining the German economy.
For now Russia is still supplying them with oil and gas, but I expect that Russia, who can easily sell the oil and gas in the Asian markets, will faze out their deliveries to Europe.
If this happens, the German economy, critically depending on cheap and reliable delivery of energy, will come under severe pressure.
Numerous industrial giants will have to close shop and move to a country which can provide them with the requisites necessary to function properly.
Germany will face a major depression, with un-employment at levels not seen since WWII, while they will also be stuck with chronical double digit inflation and are swarmed with refugees.
If they want to spend 100 billion on their military, they better do it now, because I seriously doubt that they will have the funds to do so in the future.
The rest of Europe will not be in much better shape and will probably even need to reduce their defence spending.
NATO is not a safety guarantee for Europe, but a clear and present danger to the piece on the European continent.
High time to abolish this antique requisite that has no real function and brings no benefit for Europe.
All I know is that Europeans is responsible for all wars in all of history. They exported their domestic wars all over the world. They are the cause of both world wars. Colonized countries were pulled into their wars. The world has changed. The whole of Africa and South America will not join a 3rd world war. The white, blond and blue eyed will be refugees in that counteies
One only needs to look at the past of NATO with all these men such as Hans Speidel, Adolf Heusinger, Friedrich Guggenberger, Hennig Strumpell, Franz Josef Strauss. NATO is no longer a defensive alliance but an offensive military alliance and its scope is not just limited to NATO member countries but has interfered in countries such as Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya, Bosnia and Herzegovina to name a few. Instead of being disbanded after the collapse of the USSR and being integrated into UN peacekeeping, it now has ulterior racist motives.
Whar is missing. is the fact that Russia was invited to join NATO in 1994 and the DUMA approved a plan to join.
Russia participated in NATO exercises and was an observer in the partnership for Peace until Putin withdrew.
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President Zelensky of Ukraine; At the instigation of the West, it is pushing the common people to the brink of death and displacing them. It is better for Ukrainians not to have a head of state like this idiot.
Great.
The US led NATO will continue to help Ukraine until the last Ukrainian is dead, then what?
In America we have russian flag everywhere red white and blue
It hurt the innocents the most. Not those who creates the tension and problems.
I would be an IDIOT LIKE MILLIONS OUT THERE if I didn’t know that USA CREATED THIS WAR FOR UKRANIANS TO KILL RUSSIANS AND VICE-VERSA WHERE THE USA GET RICH SELLING WEAPONS TO UKRAINE UNTIL THEY EITHER HAVE NO MORE GOLD TO PAY FOR WEAPONS OR NO MORE UKRAINIAN BLOOD but why? Because CRUEL INVESTORS IN USA and many descendants of Germans who came to USA IN WW2 that take any resources out there via buying elected in other governments or by making neighboring countries kill each other ….. how? Through Democracy because Democracy is a lie or the imposition of a few over the majority which are always the losers ….. understand in Ukraine if there was Democracy people would have voted freely to war or not to war which means half the residents in Ukraine would have being imposed upon to war or not war …. democracy is also a killer and those fools that wear a soldiers uniform die defending a land that they do not own …. the only thing they kind of own is there body and dying for cruel investors from anywhere IT IS MEGA IDIOTIC …. USA make IDIOTS OUT OF THE WHOLE WORLD …. Biden is unfit as president and with his son is invested in Ukraine energy and biolabs and the media is paid ot coerce to hide this fact.
Paper tigers. Forget the article 5. Why are you trying to encycle Russia?
Proud to be nato
Boycott russia and China
Nato new purpose is to back off the Russian borders …
Will the west become middle east?
Nato is weak and that’s a fact just ask the taliban 😂🤷🏽♂️
NATO is the biggest terrorist organisation in the world if you don’t listen to funded western media and do your own research you’ll know
Let me fix this for you:
“NATO Looks for new purpose so starts war in Ukraine”
it was NATO that created an unnecessary threat to the world. they should be disbanded when the warsaw pack disbanded. now they are threatening Russia with their eastward expansion and now playing the victim game like fat Karen.
western Europe doesn’t want peace, they want problems always! well, this will lead to WW3 anyway..have a nice life!
NATO is not a military helper…
13% who was apposed to be part of NATO are the Russians leftovers in the Baltic states
Same NATO, same purpose.
The baltic states shouln’t have too much Faith on American might, one Day,the yankees might drop them like a hot 🥔
the same threatening enemy to Europe ~Russia!
Should allow Ukraine to join the club.
The Ukrainians should blow up the Russian gas pipe line to Germany. That will teach the Germans not to sponsor Putin’s war.
Ukraine received more than one billion Dollars in transit fees per year.
Obviously the majority of European countries is still buying oil and gas from Russia, it takes time to replace Russia as a supplier.
Nato wanted purpose so they created one
NATO IS A REAL TERRORIST ORGANISATION U.S AND U.K ARE MOTHER OF ALL TERRORIST INVADING MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND NON MUSLIM COUNTRIES KILLING INOCENT PEOPLE STOLEN NATURAL RESOURCES.
in 1949 NATo pakt first then waršaw pakt from other side……….why do you lie?
and when SSSR colapsed warsaw pakt game over…………..look world map from 1991 and you will see how NATO pakt is geting closer to Rusia by arming their neigbhours so……hahahah
so there wasnt a purpose before? then why keep this relic of Cold War era of Military Alliance on?
Anything about the imperial west is a real disaster to world peace.
During and/or at the end of it all, the ordinary people are the most vulnerable and victims. Zelensky has done more harm than good to Ukrainians
So is true Nato wants to Surround Russia 🇷🇺.
Putz-in has quickly accomplished what the west has wanted for decades. Finland and Sweden stopped sitting on the fence and have decided to join NATO.
Nato is nothing other than a war institution.
How shameful coalition who has no ball to confront the real soldiers..who only fight a militias type soldiers… Look what happened in Afghanistan, Thay lost
NATO & US are WAR PIGS!!! and truly original terrorist👎👎👎👎👎👎
Yes, to deal with totalitarian regimes
NATO’s is an American military expansion to control European. But God Almighty brought General Putin to restore our dignity. Ukraine isn’t part of NATO’s allies but American and European allies are funding Ukraine military, which means Nato allies are fully involved indirectly. If NATO is good why NOT include Russian federation as a part of NATO’s???
It’s all about dealing with ruthless totalitarian regimes around the world.