They also corrupting politicians to make them buy fighter jets while our grandmas are literally dying of starvation in understaffed hospitals
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yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day agoNATO 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.
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
NATO isn’t corrupting anyone. And I’m Canadian, my grandma’s doing alright.
YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club 22 hours ago
yesukwunt@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Then why does von der leyen have her own flat and can’t be search by Belgian police?
yucandu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That article doesn’t mention Von Der Leyen, let alone any apartment or Belgian police, and it’s an article about NATO cracking down on corruption, not letting it happen. And Von Der Leyen is not the leader of NATO, she is the leader of the European Commission.
Russia and China have spent the past few decades infiltrating leftist groups and spreading their unrelated propaganda in them. “Hey guys, it’s me, your fellow Marxist. Like you, I also want to bring power to the people and end capitalism, but you know what we need to end first? NATO.”
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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 1 day ago
Afghanistan was a NATO Article 5 mission. We didn’t stick around a minute after the NATO mission was over.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
And nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.