NATO Invites Montenegro to Join as 29th Member Nation

Nation Set to Become NATO's Smallest Economy

by Jason Ditz, May 19, 2016

Actual membership won’t actually happen until all 29 involved nations’ parliaments sign off on the plan, but NATO today formally invited tiny Montenegro to join the alliance, making it the smallest economy in NATO. 

Montenegro would be the first new NATO member since 2009, when Albania and Croatia joined, and adds yet more former Warsaw Pact territory to the alliance, further antagonizing Russia. Russia complains NATO is trying to encircle it by absorbing former allies.

DYI Comments:  Russia is correct the alliance [U.S., U.K., NATO, EU] is in the process of encircling her from the far north Baltic Sea region to the central plains with Poland and their attempt to bring in Ukraine.  The remaining countries of the ex Yugoslavia plus the push to admit Georgia.  Geopolitics, the alliance drive is for Russia to break up especially her political sub division east of the Ural Mountains creating new counties that would be friendly to western oil and gas companies.
 
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