• overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    weasel words from rutte uncritically printed by reuters. “some countries (and i wont say which ones) did a bad thing (they know what it was)”

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      So Trump’s US asking defensive allies of a defensive pact to participate in an unwarranted aggression against a country the pact has no trouble with?

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        Even better, that area of the world isn’t under the defense pact. When portuguese provinces in India were attacked in a full blown military invasion, NATO didn’t step in. At the time those provinces were an integrant part of a NATO country, not a “territory” neither a colony.

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        4 days ago

        Rutte doesn’t. The cherry on the pie top is that the Orange wanted members to send ships to Hormuz strait where they’d be sitting ducks.

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    I agree. USA failed.

    NATO is not an offensive pact. And even if it fucking were a fucking offensive pact, if you want your allies to join in your fucking military campaign, you fucking ask for them to do it, before you fucking do it. Fuck.