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NATO Role in Ukraine & Russia Invasion

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  What is Nato? Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, UK, Canada and France. Members agree to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any individual member state. Nato's aim was originally to counter the threat of post-war Russian expansion in Europe. Soviet Russia responded by creating its own military alliance of eastern European communist countries, called the Warsaw Pact. After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, a number of former Warsaw Pact countries joined Nato.         Could Sweden and Finland join Nato? US officials expect Sweden and Finland to bid for membership as early as June. If they joined it would take the Nato alliance to 32 members. Russia has warned both countries against doing so But US defence officials said Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has been a "massive strategic blunder" which is likely to bring about...
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Hamas : Isreal

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The Hamas terror war against Israel In the years since Operation Cast Lead there has been a significant reduction in the extent and severity of terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip. n the two years since Operation Cast Lead there has been a significant reduction in the extent and severity of terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip. That created a new security situation, and improvement on that before Operation Cast Lead. The decrease in terrorism reflects Israel's power, restored by Operation Cast Lead, to deter the terrorist organizations. However, even the current level of rocket and mortar shell fire and the frequent attacks on IDF forces along the border fence disrupt the daily lives of the western Negev residents. The relative quiet has been exploited...
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