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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It seems like there is no mechanism to kick a country out like that. What's more likely is that NATO will be de facto dissolved immediately, but this doesn't stop allied countries from working together anyway. If the Trump administration thinks that NATO is the only thing holding alliances together, I think they will be uncomfortably surprised.

Personally I think the real decision makers in the Trump administration actually want war, or at the very least don't care if they get it. We should just cut them off from everything. Make them react. I'm sick of playing the game. Just shit or get off the pot.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What's the difference between kicking a country out of NATO vs all the other countries just saying, ok NATO2, same members minus one?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    If NATO was dissolved, Europe would get rid of all those US bases on European soil (Italy alone has 9 US bases, IIRC). That would be fun.

    But still, I wish the US would get rid of Trump instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I believe the good Americans will overcome. I love seeing pissed off Americans showing up to the fight in increasing numbers. I think too many of them still believe that the midterms are going to save them, or that they can rely on legal or democratic systems that have been systematically undermined.

    But I see that the Trump administration does not make any decisions to try and grow their support at all. They are moving too fast and too aggressively, probably because they need to destroy the democratic institutions in less than 2 years, so they are pulling out all the stops. They learned from the first term and they believe they have to move faster but that speed is also working against them, because it doesn't allow breathing space during which the electorate can be propagandized and during which they can forget. If they move fast their opposition will learn to move fast as well.

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