• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    So, the only NATO country who actually used article 5 to call it’s allies into war now wants to leave because the rest isn’t doing enough?

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    MAGA will leave NATO, and form an alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, and others (probably Turkey, Hungary, etc.). As a show of good faith, Russia will demand the return of Alaska, and China will demand Taiwan, and HitlerPig will give it to them, because they’ll say he can have Canada and Greenland in return. He’ll like that deal because they are bigger, so he will feel like he’s got the better deal.

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    It’s pretty cool how we’ve become a rogue state. I sure wish we’d be terrible and awful and bad. Wait, we’re doing that.

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    We give more money to Isreal for genicide and apartheid in order to control oil, whiles killing renewable energy. These fuckers “can’t smell the shit on their own knees.” - Marylin Manson.

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    Hey.

    What if.

    We demanded everyone else pull their weight, after we demanded to bear that weight, and then we left the alliance so our new bff Russia could attack and we wouldn’t be responsible to act.

    Then we could attack Greenland and Canada with Russias blessing and not have that awkward inter-NATO thang.

    Awesome.

    - Americans, the New NazisTM and friends to Russians.

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      Republicans are the new Nazis. The majority of Americans are too scared or apathetic to stop them.

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        The majority of voters elected Trump, and apparently if all the non-voters had joined in it would have stilk turned out the same way.

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      It’s serious. They’ve been threatening this for years, but were blocked in various ways. They’ve spent years breaking all those guardrails.

      e: this will show whether all the guardrails are gone (it kinda looks like they are)

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    This bill is going nowhere, and Trump just said at the summit that he would honor article 5.
    I know Trump often changes his mind, but the summit showed that Trump has definitely changed course for the better regarding NATO.

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        10 hours ago

        Yes that’s what counts ultimately, but it was remarkable how normal Trump behaved at the NATO summit.
        But another reason it won’t go anywhere is that Republicans in general don’t favor leaving NATO. And with only partial Republican support, it can never pass.

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          I’m not sure republicans have a choice. MAGA is in charge now and if anyone goes against them, they are done. And they care about themselves far more than they care about NATO.

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      I know Trump often changes his mind

      Trump has no mind. He’s just a bullshit-emitting Markov process.

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        It’s a Cold War relic. Notice how traitors immediately call you an “alt-leftist” and whatever that other bottom of the barrel said. There’s only traditional US power or nothing.

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        Don’t ask—this person’s prolly an alt-leftist who hates literally anything that America does, including participating in NATO. A lot of the alt-left think NATO is a terrorist organization. Look up horseshoe theory if you wanna know how/why the alt-left starts to spout out alt-right talking points (like anti-NATO shit)

        **and for the record, not saying NATO is above criticism. But given what russia is doing, anyone with a modicum of common sense can see why that alliance is vital for Europe’s stability at this point in time.