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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
you know that the whole Middle East thing wasn’t due to NATO?
Mhm. Sure buddy.
Great rebuke.
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
You have no argument, you know I’m right. Pathetic showing.
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.
Europeans don’t want America to leave NATO? Sure wouldn’t know that from talking to them.