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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

NATO also only works defensively - the US struck first, and as a result no NATO country has any obligation to get involved, even if it were an attack on home territory.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    you act as if logic or basic memory are a thing.

    Trump will act as of the attack was unprovoked. and more people and countries than were comfortable will fall in line and act if the US did not strike at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump can act as he wants, that doesn't magically make other nations forget what NATO agreements actually say.

    NATO was never involved in any of the other US-lead wars. Western countries may form a coalition for a war but that's independent of and unrelated to NATO and purely at their own discretion, not out of any obligation. Feel free to protest your national government if they choose to get involved, but don't act like they have no agency and Trump forced them to do anything.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    sorry, you aren't wrong,

    it's just lately we've seen that actual rules are meaningless.

    if countries followed international laws, Israel would be as sanctioned as North Korea, and they would be zero weapons sold to them.

    so I'm not expecting actual international laws and treaties to have any effect here.

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