• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Dictators shouldn’t be allowed in NATO

    Once the orange cancer is dead and the US goes through a LOT OF CHANGES, along with many guardrails placed, and only after an extensive review should the US be allowed to APPLY back in…

    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      Would be nice if they ceremoniouslykick out each republican president from now on, for their past behavior, their party and their politics which are antithetical to the goals of NATO the UN and all US allies frankly.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Obama did so many illegal drone stikes and supported Saudis carpet bombing civilians in Yemen. Biden financed and allowed a genocide that’s continuing today.

        it’s an American imperialism problem, not a Republican problem

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          6 hours ago

          Illegal how? Who has threatened a charge? What dem started a war in the past decades?

          If the best you can say is that Dems went multiple terms with no wars and only used bombs at one point then you’re basically telling the whole internet you have zero capacity for scope or nuance.

          We get it you don’t understand the difference between a bombing or a war, a forest for the trees. No one is cheering either on but your lack of nuance tells everyone how dense your take on politics comes off.

          It’s obvious you don’t have the capacity to judge modern reality so honestly don’t worry about it. Just keep calling everyone GeNoCiDaL and stop participating. You obviously don’t recognize the world around you.

          • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            careful, make sure you take vitamin supplements, there isn’t a lot of vitamins in a diet composed entirely on bootlicking corporate owned neoliberal war criminal’s boots

          • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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            6 hours ago

            Clinton started wars in Haiti, Sudan / Afghanistan, Serbia / Kosovo

            Obama started wars in Somalia, Libya, DR Congo / Uganda /CAR / S Sudan, Niger / Mali / Burkina Faso, Syria, Yemen, Libya (again).

            Biden started a war in Yemen (again) and joined Israeli wars.

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              1 hour ago

              The interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo was a result of Serbian and Yugoslav genocide and ethnic cleansing of Albanian Kosovars. Once Serbian and Yugoslav forces retreated the war ended and led to Kosovo being protected to this day by a multinational force.

              The doubts around legality arose because Russia and China refused to back a UN force so NATO were forced to intervene to prevent the genocide and stop the conflict spilling over into neighbouring countries.

              So to say Clinton started a war, comparing it to some of the shit that has happened since and suggesting it was illegal is pretty disingenuous to be honest. NATO interventions undoubtedly prevented the untimely deaths of tens of thousands of people. And if anything the biggest advocates for the war were the UK. British troops led the ground invasion and are now responsible for the continued KFOR presence in the region.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        If only.

        Obama did drone war crimes and began mass deportations. Biden financed a genocide and maintained Trump’s family separation and deportations. Unlike dems, or traditional Republicans MAGA are just open about their racism.

        US is a racist imperialist project regardless of what stooge is chosen to sit at the top.

        • osanna@lemmy.vg
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          3 hours ago

          If my memory serves me right, obama dropped more bombs than trump has in the same stretch of time. Obama was BETTER than dumpy, but not by much. Obama at least tried to fix SOME problems. Dumpy is only making shit worse.

          • Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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            2 hours ago

            The US has always been involved in wars of some kind. The military-industrial complex probably needs them to siphon more money. All the recent presidents, except Trump, have been careful to maintain diplomacy and the international order. Trump and his henchmen have done their best to wreck system for everyone. I like to think that’s Trump, not the American people (maybe it’s MAGA too).

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              1 hour ago

              pretty much. trump is definitely gonna be remembered like he wants, I’m just not sure how many people he’s going to take out in the meantime.

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      100%. The US is welcome to join again, after passing democracy reviews, and a proper evaluation of what it can contribute to the alliance. Instead of the natural reaction of begging for “US to reconsider abandonning alliance” burden must be placed on US and its eagerness to maintain/join the alliance.

      • aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 hours ago

        Great points. Except, per your previous comments, you believe Ukraine started the Russian invasion of its own lands. That Russia deserves that land and it belongs to them.

        So everything you say about NATO means nothing to anyone with a brain.

  • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org
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    10 hours ago

    This moron, NATO knew that the first few months. Nobody would be taking Trump’s US seriously if it wasn’t for everything it had built up that’s now tumbling down upon itself.

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    11 hours ago

    At this point I would feel safer without US as part of NATO and wouldn’t trust them not stab allies in the back at the first opportunity.

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      8 hours ago

      The problem is that the US is such an integral part of NATO that it can’t really function without it. The US is command and control for all NATO units and there really isn’t that capability anywhere else. It would take years, maybe even a decade of focused effort to change this. At this point probably best to start with some other treaties like what the scandanavians are doing and expand from there.

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    11 hours ago

    We would have always been there for them

    Bullshit, USA has not been there to help NATO allies support Ukraine. And we didn’t shit ourselves like USA is doing.
    USA did not help defend against an illegal attack on Europe from Russia. Yes Biden did help a little, but he also prevented Ukraine from attacking into Russia, which was completely insane, and now that Ukraine is attacking Russian oil exports, actually imposing the sanctions the allied countries promised, Russia is finally beginning to break under the economic pressure.
    With friends like that, who needs enemies.

    Now USA has engaged in their own illegal war, and for fucks sake, nobody wanted that war, everybody warned against it, and SPECIFICALLY warned against the closure of the Hormuz Strait. I just watched a 9 month old video by the Youtube channel secular talk, where they stated with absolute certainty, that one of the first moves by Iran in case of an attack would be the closure of the Hormuz Strait.

    So quite frankly just piss off USA, we already don’t expect you to do anything good anymore. Which is why all the rest of the NATO countries are scrambling to make new alliances. And as an example Canada and Japan have joined the EU SAFE program.

    The Pax Americana is dead, and the American global leadership is dead with it.

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      2 hours ago

      I get your frustration, but “helped a little” is a massive understatement for the contributions the US made for Ukraine immediately before and during the early phases of the war, when Biden was in office.

      Trump is just awful by every measure though.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Fuck Trump. And fuck Netanyahu. NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance…not a tool of US / Israeli aggression.

      • 4am@lemmy.zip
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        6 hours ago

        Rude but true. But a lot of us are waking up from the fever dream we were fed. “We are the good guys! We are the best at everything because we work hard! That’s why we’re the richest, because we are the goodest and the most protecc”

        And then you grow up and you learn we built an empire on slavery and exploitation, ourselves even being exploited, so that some dumbass greedy fucker can live in a gold and marble palace and fuck stolen children and throw their bastard newborns into Lake Michigan

        It’s not a real country it’s all a pyramid scheme. We wouldn’t wake up until they went too far. It was always rotten underneath they just had enough wool over our eyes

        • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
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          4 hours ago

          The mask of humanity fall[s] from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone – everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.

  • Feyter@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    A good opportunity to remind, that the US was the only country ever to invoke article 5 and Europeans (even Ukraine) came to help…

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      11 hours ago

      Apparently it was invoked on their behalf by another country/countries. But that’s sort of irrelevant. Other countries stood by America with their silly bullshit back then. The US owes all of those countries, I don’t care who invoked or volunteered.