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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5266098" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You mean we support countries who defend themselves from aggression like Israel, Saudi Arabia.  NATO existed to defend itself from the Soviet Union.  The Warsaw Pact(it's not capitalized) consisted of countries forced into an alliance with the Soviet Union.  Had puppet governments under Moscow's control.  When protesters in Hungary and Czechoslovakia tried to break free from that control the Soviet Union sent in the tanks.  NATO existed to keep that from happening to them.  When the Soviet Union broke up the Warsaw Pact Eastern European countries sought protection from future Russian aggression by joining NATO.  Weapon sales?  Sure, there's some, but those countries spend very little on defense.</p></blockquote><p></p>