NATO

Recently Trump suggested that NATO countries pay their fair share and this caused a lot of concern about NATO in general. NATO was founded in 1949 and was designed to oppose any invasion especially from the Soviet Union. It started with 12 members and has expanded to the 29 member countries today. Article 5 says that if any member country is attacked the other countries will come to its aid. Among the original 12 was the small country of Iceland population 340,000. The way NATO stands today is that if Russia were to invade Iceland the United States would be required to go to war against Russia. The latest addition to NATO is Montenegro. Most Americans know very little about this country basic things like where is it and how many live there. Russia is not likely to invade either Iceland or Montenegro but they might invade one of the Baltic countries say Estonia and this would trigger a response from NATO.