Finland will seek NATO membership immediately

Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by calf on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:13AM (#31352283)

It's also a bad concept. Defensive alliance is a loaded term, but people use it in arguments as if it was a well defined mathematical object.

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by logifail on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:26AM (#31352386)

> Defensive alliance is a loaded term

It also doesn't appear to be a very accurate description of the things NATO has been getting up to since the end of the Cold War.

"[NATO] has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa"[0]

You don't have to be a spin doctor to realise that what seems like "defence" to one person is another's war of aggression.

German defence minister Peter Struck memorably said in 2004 that "Germany was also [being] defended on the Hindu Kush".[1]

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by CRConrad on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:16AM (#31352874)

> Defensive alliance is a loaded term, but people use it in arguments as if it was a well defined mathematical object.

Almost like "defensive weapons". Almost, because that's even worse.

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