• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    I’m not sure who would say that it was to ‘stop NATO aggression’, but it’s not hard to imagine it as a some kind of response to NATO’s continued expansion around them.

    NATO hasn’t been in any direct operations against Russia but they have been involved in the ME where they have been active.

    I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

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      7 months ago

      I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

      The “Cuban” missile crisis was started by USA putting nukes in Turkey.

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        7 months ago

        Well yea, the US has had imperial ambitions since its founding, but they definitely doubled down when their primary adversary set up camp in their backyard

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        I’m not saying there isn’t reason for those countries to want to joint an alliance against their imperialist neighbor, but honestly it’s kinda hard not to see how NATO’s influence has been abused for purposes other than defense.

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        Nato: Invades the entire middle east and fucks it up to steal oil

        You: “What a great defensive alliance”

        Where those WMD’s in Iraq at?

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          You’re right. A warmonger republican president lied 20 years ago, so invading your neighbors is totally OK and any steps to prevent that are imperialism.

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            Especially if NATO pinky winky promises they wouldn’t expand eastward multiple times and keeps violating that promise.

            Also nice how you forget about Obama continuing it and bombing a slew of other countries such as Afghanistan.

            One only needs to look at Palestine to realize how fucked up NATO is. Willing to defend israel’s Genocide and attacking anyone that tries to stop it such as the Houthis.