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NATO is a defensive treaty. No NATO member was attacked by Iran. As usual, Trump is full of shit.
Remember, when they say something obviously untrue, it’s not because they think you’ll believe it, it’s because they need it to be true in order to justify what they’re going to do next.
No NATO member was attacked by Iran.
Depends if you consider drone attacks on Cyprus and Turkey to be genuine.
Afaik there’s no mechanism within the nato charter or any of its founding documents or principles that would allow this. So the US doing this would probably only hasten NATO falling apart, and lead to the forming of a new iteration of it without the US.
Edit: and, uh, NATO itself agrees with that first part
Without the US? How the North American Treaty Organization exists without US?
Lmfao NYT coming in hot with the AI slop 🤪
Honestly though, that’s a hilariously bad and super obvious fuck-up
AI slop? I'll bet it is not Artificial Intelligence, current models are way too good for that. This here is some Natural Stupidity.
100% organic human slop
I wouldn’t say they’re too good, but the kind of mistakes they make are different to this one.
Iirc they replaced a bunch of editors with LLM review
Also, even if NATO stood for that, Canada is in NATO, so it’s still North American. The US does not own the Americas.
And it should end with "without the US". Fuck the US and their center of the world bullshit, there are a lot of beautiful countries in the Americas
NATOWTUS
Does not own the America’s yet
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Canada is in NATO, so it’s still North American
...not for long, according to Trump himself.
lmao
Yeah, this is a really good way to just end up with 'EUTO' or something like that, and then the US losing its leases on... what, basically all of the European bases sans the UK?
That would uh, kinda royally fuck our logistics, even more than they are currently fucked.
Anyway, I guess we should just rename London 'Airstrip One' at this point.
Honestly, given how idiotic we’re being these days, I wouldn’t be super shocked if the UK also told us to kindly fuck off.
Isn't NATO a defensive organization? Crybaby taco Trump is acting like they're his personal army and if they don't attack who he says to attack then they should be punished....
I'm sure Spain wouldn't mind. At the same time they can leave all their bases in Spain. Frankly at this point NATO would be better off without the US.
It's time Europe stood in it's own, but for US that means leaving all bases in Europe and Europe no longer sharing intelligence or purchasing US military hardware.
Good luck being a pariah state.
EU is also reducing and disconnecting financial systems, infrastructure, software, critical trade and a bunch of other dependencies. The US and their businesses are less happy about that part.
I pity any country that is slugged with buying food from the US. For a country obsessed with meat, they sure are bad at producing any worth a damn.
And they can kick NASA out of the Madrid station on the Deep Space Network.
So they get all the protection of NATO, since geographically Russia would have to fight there way through the rest of Europe to get there, with none of the obligations.
Trump proving he is the master of the art of the deal
There’s the other direction …
There's only russia to the east
Oh you’re on about Spain
I'm joking
Morocco???
All the more reason for the EU to leave NATO as a united bloc.
What value does a defense alliance have when the most influential country in its ranks is ruled by a psychopath who openly threatens its members with a war of aggression and commits the most heinous war crimes elsewhere in the world?
We simply have to be realistic: The U.S. is now the enemy of the free world. Nothing will ever change that, because the American people will never rise up against their own downfall.
Create NATO GOLD, consisting of all of NATO minus America. The 'GOLD' would just be to annoy Trump.
$NATO anyone?
The U.S. is now the enemy of the free world.
Correction: The "free world" is the enemy of the free world, because that's how late stage capitalism works. The EU seems poised to follow in America's footsteps, if anything. Also if the "most heinous war crimes" part was a dealbreaker NATO never would've existed.
Spain has pushed back against the Palestinian Genocide and has become the most critical EU country againt Isreal.
Of course the US has to make an example out of them before it spreads.
Don't fall for the propaganda.
trump still thinks america is boss of the world. If anything, the UN is the boss of the world. We need to make it (the U.N.) stronger in our push for united globalization. It's hard though when you find corruption everywhere on all sides.
Directed by Isreal no doubt
They might wish to learn more of what it takes to float tankers through a particular strait rather than dumb ideas.
NATO is already dead. Nobody believes that the.participating nations will act to protect one another.
If an enemy actually comes they will defend one another ... but the suspicion lies in that only the US just goes meh, not interested.
On top of that, trump seems to reason to himself that he is being attacked by Iran, and therefore NATO (which is a defensive only alliance) is supposed to help, which it is not.
Trump attacked Iran... for dubious reasons worse than the Iraq debacle, so the allies who trump already spat in their faces have no interest getting pulled into his war whatsoever.
This is trump's war on all fronts, not NATO's, and does not come with a moral contract to let him use any other countries' assets if they disagree.
The situation would change dramatically if Iran actually did attack a NATO member.
Yeah, you'll absolutely see Canadian and French, even Turkish boots on the ground if Germany calls for self defense. The US on the other hand depends on trump's mood (though actually I suspect congress would rapidly declare war to defend them)
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