• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    America decides who NATO is going to invade and all the NATO members will obey and hop aboard. That is how it works.

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      1 day ago

      No it isn’t. America has its opinions on things I am sure but NATO does not exist to execute the arbitrary wims of the United States, especially now, but not really ever.

      It’s a military defence packed, if one nation is attacked the others respond as if they themselves were attacked. In the past the US has definitely abused this in order to get what they want. But in no way does that make them in charge.

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        20 hours ago

        You don’t seem to realise, that it’s not about your defense. You are likely to die at the frontlines or due to some nuke, once NATO countries decide go to war, if anything. Its “defense” is for the western imposed capitalist and imperialist world order — which is in crisis right now. Not for you, not for your loved ones, not for your way of life.

        I am sure

        Sure? How? On what basis? Vibes?

        the US has definitely abused this in order to get what they want

        Why wouldn’t that happen again? What’s different, if the EU abuses it?

        You’re naive, sorry. Don’t simp for NATO.

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          18 hours ago

          Right because every single war that has happened since the end of the second world war has been a nuclear exchange, oh wait hang on.

          If Russia invades a European country NATO or not, Europe is going to war simply for the purposes of self-preservation, so we might as well have it organised.