CAVOKAustria — it’s time to join NATO
e8d79Unfortunately, I don’t see any chance for that. The right wing nut job party is set to win the next elections and it is likely that the “moderate” party will form a coalition with them. Even suggesting to think about joining NATO at some point in the far future, would be political suicide.
MicrowNo, it’s not. Austria won’t ever join NATO bar being directly attacked themselves. If the other EU countries can finally get around to strengthen european military cooperation, Austria will be in that. But NATO is not an option.
No, it’s not. Austria won’t ever join NATO bar being directly attacked themselves.
Unfortunately countries in an active military conflict are not allowed to join NATO. Good luck.
There’s no hard rule against that IIRC, it would just be an awkward situation because it would imply that NATO should immediately become involved in the conflict.
NoLifeKingWhen someone wants to invade Austria we should give them the railway for a small fee.
MYCOOLNEJMWhy join and contribute when you can be a leech? Also, Daddy putin would not like one of its oblasts joining
miskIIRC the issue is that NATO doesn’t necessarily want Austria since their institutions are heavily infiltrated by Russian spies?
tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Infiltrated by Russian spies suggests, that this is not part of the countries policy. But every information that gets to Austrian intelligence ends up in Russia and Austrian intelligence helps European high profile criminals escape to Russia.
The truth is that Austria’s intelligence community is split. Various factions within the intelligence agencies and authorities proxy-fighting with each other resulted in a raid on the intelligence service, anonymous accusations and the becoming public of various scandals. But it’s obvious that not the whole intelligence apparatus is in the Russians’ pockets.
krimsonTIL Austria is not in NATO.
Exactly zero people studied history in this channel. It explains a lot.
Austria is required by its constitution to be neutral. This neutrality was forced on them by the Soviet union, which isn’t around any more, but there is currently no political will to change this.
I would just like to add that politico.eu is part of Axel Springer SE and therefore trash.
balancing the interests of Russia and the West, while also being part of the West, is no longer morally or politically tenable
NATO is no ‘the west’ and vice versa.