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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

calling the shots in europe is part of the us strategy to perpetuate imperialism. nato wont go anywhere.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Trump's point about NATO countries needing to adhere to the funding that was agreed with mutually is a good one and I'm super confused why he was ridiculed about it when he said it. I mean, what's the point of the alliance if we don't do the things we agree to do?

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The problem is the technology gap between nations. Europeans are literally sending over their smartest and they are going over because all they care about is greed, politics be damned because because to them it's a rest of the world going around in a cycle of stupid problem. Which is stagnating both societies, science, and global security. The US is using those engineers to build the most modern weapons against fictitious "if we won't, they will" enemies, weapons that are disseminated to opposing world powers through corruption except those still stuck in the system of legitimacy rapidly devolving into subservience, weapons that are getting battle-hardened through imperialistic use throughout conflict world wide through the industrial military complex.

Europe militarily has been in shambles since WW2, evidenced by how much of its colonial ambitions it had to give up. It wasn't just oligarchs suddenly becoming good. What is going to happen is not that Europe is suddenly going to become capable of sustaining NATO, it's that it is going to have to give concessions to the nations that aren't going to be cutting them off. Before, that was the US, now it will have to be Russia and China.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

NATO hasn't been credible since they helped the US perpetrate a brutally violent colonialist pity party in Afghanistan.

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