• Nobsi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You obviously cannot use your brain, otherwise you wouldn’t say such a stupid thing, but yes. If they were fascist then we should use violence to make them go away. Tiny problem. NATO is not that and you are an idiot for saying such a thing with seriousness.
    Thanks for the joke and letting me answer it seriously.

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      If NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, it should not operate outside of its own borders under any circumstances, yet it has done so multiple times in the past.

      In theory it is an alliance of equals, but in practice it is an enforcer of the foreign policy of its most powerful member, the US. As with Russia in the USSR and the larger Warsaw Pact. If that wasn’t the case, the US would have no use for NATO and would just leave, which is what many European countries would want to avoid at all costs.

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        The way modern weapons work, defending from within your own borders just isn’t practical anymore. A simple example is those rockets constantly used for strikes in the middle east - often deployable from outside established borders.

        The only true safeguard against those strikes is having a constant awareness of what’s going on - for instance, someone deploying thousands of soldiers right to the edge of their border without actually crossing.

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            I am not in kindergarden anymore.
            I don’t have the time to argue with childrens understandings of what defensive alliances are and should be.
            Good night bobby

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                No, it just isn’t useful for any human on planet earth to entertain your “rusSiA beST cOuNtRYE usSR gOoD Yes nATo bAD theY ONlY us pUPpeT aNd Do wAR And kIl anD maEk mE poOR :(”-thoughts or even discuss anything with you.
                You are discussing like ben shapiro or incel podcast hosts but without being entertaining. Good night bobby.

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        You know things have gone bad when you’re relying on a libertarian think tank literally founded by Charles Koch (as in, the Koch Brothers) as your source

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            Ah yes, the Lebanese source “Tim Anderson”.

            the European Parliament went so far as to blame both the USSR under Joseph Stalin, alongside Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, as being jointly responsible for WW2

            Uh…. Then he delivers a diatribe on how Stalin’s self-made famine was actually fantastic. Yes, we’ve heard all about that on Lemmy recently, thanks.

            Yes, very nuanced and well reasoned “Marxist” perspective. Capitalist alliance having members in Eastern Europe: omg, so evil. Capitalist Russia controlling Eastern Europe: great, for some unexplained reason.

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                Ah yes, great point, so clearly Russia should ‘liberate’ them with tanks and missiles. NATO exists precisely to stop Russia from doing to member states what they are doing in Ukraine. Countries in E. Europe were not coerced or forced into joining NATO or the EU. Nobody has any interest in invading Russia, because it would be futile and entirely useless.

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                  NATO exists precisely to stop Russia from doing to member states what they are doing in Ukraine.

                  Wrong. Check your NATO history.

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                    Why don’t you tell me what you think it is instead of “wrong”?

                    I didn’t say “NATO was started to…” yes, it was founded to stop the Soviets from expanding and as a pact of mutual defense. Same thing. Obviously the USSR doesn’t exist now so that wouldn’t continue to be a goal.

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        Yes you are. And i will leave it to the other people that have already told you why to continue. The mods here will probably delete this comment because I haven’t been nice to you :(((

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          I hope not. I respect the discourse despite the insults. Maybe try to see the world from a less Americanized lens.

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            I am. I am not even American.
            Maybe try to see the world from a lens that doesnt gobble up Propaganda

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              You are not immune to propaganda. Sure. The person who wants to stop the war and killing is the one influenced by propaganda./s