Re:Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:46PM
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> USA, UK, Australia, Poland, Netherlands, Italy and Spain (and Turkey threatened to invade in 2007 too), the fact they are all members of NATO is just coincidence, it is not NATO piling up on a single country.
Australia isn't a member of NATO (neither is New Zealand, which you claim at another point), and there were NATO members opposed to the invasion; NATO works by consensus, but isn't a supergovernment that dictates the outside-of-NATO foreign policy of its members.
> NATO can claim to be defensive and only about article 5
It could, but it actually doesn't.
It claims to be a regional security organization, and Article 4 is just as important as Article 5.
Australia isn't a member of NATO (neither is New Zealand, which you claim at another point), and there were NATO members opposed to the invasion; NATO works by consensus, but isn't a supergovernment that dictates the outside-of-NATO foreign policy of its members.
> NATO can claim to be defensive and only about article 5
It could, but it actually doesn't.
It claims to be a regional security organization, and Article 4 is just as important as Article 5.