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Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces by cm2187 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:39PM (#13431076)
An interesting comment from a French general: he thinks the best thing that can happen to NATO is actually the US pulling out of NATO. This would preserve the benefits of NATO (interoperability between all western armies) but would force Europeans to take their own defense seriously instead of relying on the US.

For those interested in more details, the podcast (in French): https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/lesprit-public/la-def...

That makes me think it may actually happen.

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Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces by SkyMarshal on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:18PM (#13431425)
Interesting. Also, the EU has been quietly trying to build an army, this would let them leapfrog all the political potholes of doing so and just assimilate NATO as the new EU army.
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Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces by nerfhammer on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:42PM (#13432249)
Given that NATO has been the most successful alliance of all time, the "best thing that can happen" to it must be pretty good.
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