NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 年前‘Time is now’ to step up efforts for Ukraine peace, says Germany’s Scholzwww.brecorder.comexternal-linkmessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down14
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minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·2 年前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.
minus-squareOurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 年前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
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·2 年前 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-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·2 年前Or Belgrade/the former Yugoslavia.
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.
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
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Tell that to Libya.
Or Belgrade/the former Yugoslavia.