NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago‘Time is now’ to step up efforts for Ukraine peace, says Germany’s Scholzwww.brecorder.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down14
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minus-squareOurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down5·edit-28 months agoUnironically yes, NATO members have invaded a lot of places, often in coalition with other member states.
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·8 months agoThat’s like saying Canada is responsible for something Mexico did because they’re both on the same continent… NATO is purely a defense agreement.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·8 months ago The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world” Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism Jeffrey Sachs, 2024: The 2024 NATO Declaration The Deadly Strategy of Neoconservatism .
minus-squareOurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoIt is more like saying the axis is known to invade nations because its member states invade nations. Okay, sure, Germany and Italy invaded the soviet union but Japan didn’t, you can’t say they’re not a defensive alliance /s
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·8 months agoOr Belgrade/the former Yugoslavia.
“plenty”
Unironically yes, NATO members have invaded a lot of places, often in coalition with other member states.
That’s like saying Canada is responsible for something Mexico did because they’re both on the same continent…
NATO is purely a defense agreement.
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It is more like saying the axis is known to invade nations because its member states invade nations. Okay, sure, Germany and Italy invaded the soviet union but Japan didn’t, you can’t say they’re not a defensive alliance /s
Tell that to Libya.
Or Belgrade/the former Yugoslavia.