• @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          By the time Russia is knocking at the door of the UK, its already game over.

          That said, I would not want to be Polish right now.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            Russia can barely project power across its own border, what chance has it got of projecting all the way to the British isles? We have more aircraft carriers than they do and ours actually work.

            Russia is a spent force. All they have is their rusty old nukes as a threat and I highly doubt they’ll ever actually use them.

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        Not a lot. The British weapons are reliant on US maintenance. Won’t be credible for long if the US doesn’t support them.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          Isn’t this a bit like saying that because I drive a German car that’s maintained by the dealership, it’s not my car?

          I’m sure it wouldn’t be tricky for the UK to move the Trident weapons program closer to home, or to align with allies in Europe (lol).

          • @[email protected]
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            18 months ago

            I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s not going to come for free nor will it be immediate

  • @[email protected]
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    538 months ago

    It seems like a very real possibility. A new, EU followup seems like a natural next step to protect the borders and peace.

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      Next stage of russian ops will focus more heavily on splitting Europe now that UK and US have been severed off

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      38 months ago

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    I mean if Europe wants to increase their military funding and move items in house I think that would be a wonderful idea. Because America is not a reliable partner in this at all in the past two decades.

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      468 months ago

      The perfect excuse for the military industrial complex to move manufacturing overseas.

      • @[email protected]
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        168 months ago

        So I’m going to say that the military industrial complex is already there, it would simply be a rapid expansion.

    • SomeAmateur
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      If Europe gets into a war of course the US will help. But the same can’t really be said if the US gets into a war. The rest of NATO needs to be able to hold the fort if the US were to get suddenly …distracted in the Pacific

    • lurch (he/him)
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      Multiple EU countries want to, but they also want to give stuff to Ukraine and it’s difficult to do both.

  • @[email protected]
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    128 months ago

    It isn’t credible now. It likely won’t exist at all in 4 years. Unless it cedes even more decision making authority to the US and becomes even more of a puppet.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The main point I was making is that Trump is almost certainly going to pull the US out of NATO altogether.

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      48 months ago

      Doesn’t all authority already lie with the USA? If we’re going to be real, I mean. I’m sure France thinks otherwise but let’s be real: NATO was always the “Uncle Sam will protect Europe from Russia”-treaty.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        France knows this, that’s why it wasn’t in NATO for most its history. This only changed when one of our president needed war crime buddies

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    28 months ago

    I don’t think NATO is in any danger. Trump has a very aggressive and bombastic style of negotiation. You saw this with NAFTA. Trump called it the worst agreement in the history of the world. But the USMCA is just NAFTA with a new acronym and now it’s apparently the BEST trade agreement in the history if the world. Its the same with Trump and NATO. The Europeans are the worst freeloaders in the history of the universe…until they up their defense spending by half a percentage point to appease the Donald, and then NATO will be the best alliance ever. Typical bombastic bullshit.

  • FundMECFS
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    Can NATO still mean something if the US leaves? I think so, but there is much soul searching to be done.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      138 months ago

      Sorta, but not really tbh. The US was always intrinsically backstopping the security side of things. Without us in it - and I mean this very seriously - it’s not really a credible threat to Russia or anyone else anymore.

      • FundMECFS
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        78 months ago

        NATO article 5 will still have use in self defence, but obviously it will be way less impressive

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          The article is only powerful if it’s enforced.

          I suspect that Putin’s direct report won’t really sign on to any sort of defense of European countries.

  • @[email protected]
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    78 months ago

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

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      48 months ago

      For people inside NATO its surprising how much credibility they have considering how much just straight terrorism they’ve carried out over the years. Defensive alliance my arse

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    58 months ago

    Now watch red maga walk back on that too, like all of blue/red maga promises.

    The only good thing that could’ve possibly come out of this, and it won’t even happen.

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      It is the Fourth Reich

      Oh wait, that's just post-WW2 West Germany

      There were more Nazis in West Germany’s justice department after WWII than during Third Reich

      Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

      Nazis in post-WW2 Germany’s government

      From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.

      Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler’s rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.