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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by logifail on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:41AM (#31351452)
> In fact, the more the merrier^Hstronger

Umm ... wasn't that what people thought of the alliances and treaties[0] just before the First World War?

[0] https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-p...

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by juve1996 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:05AM (#31353540)
Sure it's the same if you ignore literally everything else about the two conflicts.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by kibwen on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:28AM (#31353838)
The problem in WWI was that alliances were made in secret. A secret defensive pact can't deter anyone. NATO is anything but secret.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by tokai on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:21AM (#31352943)
And they defeated Germany and dismantled the Austro-Hungarian empire. So it worked.
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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by eigenhombre on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:41AM (#31353165)
"It worked" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of WWI... yes, where was that outcome, but at the cost of tens of millions of deaths[1], years of trench/chemical warfare, exacerbation of the 1918 pandemic.

If we could avoid its equivalent in the 21st century, that would be good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

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