It's just not NATO's job to defend any and all democracies around the word to the point where we will promise to go to war with anyone who invades a democratic country. If Kazakhstan decided tomorrow they want to be a democracy and Russian doesn't want it to happen, then there is nothing we can or should do about it. It's just not worth risking having direct conflict with Russia and risk nuclear war over.



>A democratic government. I’m talking about a Democratic
>government deciding to join an alliance with other democratic
>countries for defense.
>
>Neocons want to proactively and preemptively go into countries
>like Iraq and Afghanistan to install democracies or friendly
>governments and try to nation build. I’m not advocating
>something like DATO do this. DATO sets up a list of democratic
>standards a country must meet in order to join it via a vote
>by their citizens. DATO would fight to defend existing
>democratically aligned nations.
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