Thermodolia wrote:Cekoviu wrote:Azerbaijan is, as has been mentioned, a dictatorship which is only really pro-Western in the same sense as Saudi Arabia - simply a pragmatic, strategic measure which could change at a moment's notice. Georgia remains a very fragile democracy (in the loosest sense of the term), and seems to be continually backsliding, resembling the Shevardnadze days more and more. NATO dragging its feet a bit seems warranted.
Let’s not act like NATO gives a shit if a nation is democratic or not seeing as they let dictatorships join all throughout and after the Cold War. *Glares at Turkey and Greece*
Turkey was a multi-party democracy when it joined in February 1952, Therm. Get your facts straight. I'd point more to Portugal as an example of non-democracies being admitted to NATO.