All you say is true, Larry.
Who would respect the 'border' if push came to shove?

There is also this, almost, Tom Clancyish idea abroad of what a N.A.T.O. base is, though.

F all of YI, a N.A.T.O. base could be (but would not be limited to) a garden shed at the bottom of an otherwise normal looking street!
It (like any other 'base') is a place where soldiers come from, and go to.
It does not need to house neuclear weapons, have submarine bays, or any of that kind of public demonstration of might.

Covert ops, me bhoys. Sure didn't they learn all they know from over my neck of the woods?
(that question was a rhetorical one)

And of course Kevin makes the salient point that there never was a war in the first place
Didn't 10 hunger strikers die trying to claim that there was?
(That question wasn't rhetorical, incidentally)

B.