gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agoConsidering last night's results, I don't expect NATO to be credible 4 years from nowsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square266fedilinkarrow-up1638arrow-down135
arrow-up1603arrow-down1imageConsidering last night's results, I don't expect NATO to be credible 4 years from nowsh.itjust.worksgravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square266fedilink
minus-squaretormeh@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 days agoDoesn’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.
minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·16 days agoFrance 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
minus-squareEstiar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-215 days agoC’est faux. France is one of the founding members of NATO, however for much of the time it was under a French Command instead of a combined command.
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.
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
C’est faux. France is one of the founding members of NATO, however for much of the time it was under a French Command instead of a combined command.