No, they are an alliance for defense. Nothing peaceful about it, they will fuck you up with military force if you mess with any one of their member states.
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bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
hehe NATO, the alliance for “peace”
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No, they are an alliance for defense. Nothing peaceful about it, they will fuck you up with military force if you mess with any one of the US’s economic interests.
There, FTFY
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But that’s not true. Why do you guys repeat such propaganda without question? Countless nations have messed with the US’s economic interests throughout history, how many times has NATO gotten involved?
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The point is that “NATO” is an umbrella term for “US’s interests” or “US military”.
The US can and absolutely does wreck shit up for the sake of their own interests, regardless of international law. “NATO” only comes into play when either other countries are willing to step in or the US might need a veneer of legitimacy.
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
They also pay your politicians to buy more missiles
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No they don’t. Stop repeating propaganda.
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Fuck off retard I’m not paying 60% taxes so that a bunch of bloodthirthy americans cunt can sell their f35 while our grandparents dies of anemia.
And are you fucking kidding? I was in Canada. Retirement house are as horrible as your residency schools for Indians were
anon@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, can you think of a reason Russia “only” attacked Georgia and Ukraine in the recent past and not say Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania?
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
NATO is the reason Russia is an ultranationalist shithole in the first place idiot.
Remember the 90ies?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Poor Russia, had no agency at all. Had no choice but to become an ultranationalist shithole because NATO forced them to.
YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
That’s the very idea of a dictature, yes. Americans had more agency in the gazans genocide (since, you know, they designate themself as a democracy) than russians, who at least know they’re in a strongmen dictature.
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
That’s the idea of a dictature, retard.
YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
NATO is the only reason Russia is its own country in the first place
anon@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, even if the Soviet Union still existed if NATO did not form, how would that be a good thing? You know they conquered the countries like Poland? They actively fought for their freedom. And even today you can see that Russia tires to expand its sphere of influence using force and violence. They are an oppressor, not an ally.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
“The US foreign policy enforcement gang”
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NATO doesn’t really do much other than scare Russia and China. There were a couple of debatable interventions in Europe, and the US did demand everyone join them in Afghanistan, but not Iraq, for example. NATO doesn’t just automatically go where America goes. They have actual rules that have to be cited, like Article 5.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The rest of the world were willing participants in Afghanistan. The US didn’t have to do anything to “force” them.
Iraq and Afghanistan are interlinked stories, but the way they played out with world support was very, very different.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Afghanistan was a NATO Article 5 mission. We didn’t stick around a minute after the NATO mission was over.
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
They also corrupting politicians to make them buy fighter jets while our grandmas are literally dying of starvation in understaffed hospitals
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NATO isn’t corrupting anyone. And I’m Canadian, my grandma’s doing alright.
bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
🔥
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
north atlantic trade org
where peace
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trade Org
Proppah shitepost
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Are you aware of the actual reason that NATO bombed Yugoslavia?
Oh, .ml, that explains it.
bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Mayb imma jus lil fresh around here but what does that have to do with anythin?
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Given that you’re on a two day old account, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
.ml is notoriously run by, and has a large population of tankies - people who support China and Russia, and defend or deny their countless atrocities. I.E. people who deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and say Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and all the war crimes they’ve committed are justified.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And to be clear, the larger part of non-tankie Lemmy is just fine acknowledging recent, heinous western atrocities, though doesn’t give NATO quite as much thought I suppose (in lieu of the raging dumpster fires in our own backyards).
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Worldists are notorious genocide supporters
PastaCannon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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Yes, in this instance we read history and study, yes. We don’t believe in “Freedom house” exporting democracy. How crazy eh…
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tankie detected. opinion rejected. *