• @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    That’s just not true. These aren’t arcane pieces of information, they’re bureaucracy from an international treaty. You can just go read the NATO treaty, which defines what an attack is (Article 6). Or go read the history of the NATO in Afghanistan. Article 5 was invoked for the first and only time on September 12th not because troops got hurt later. Remember how the same thing didn’t happen in any of America’s other wars?

    NATO will respond to attacks on forces at sea, but only in the North Atlantic or Mediterranean. It’s not a general “if you hurt an American soldier anywhere” treaty.

    • @Rapidcreek
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      2 months ago

      Remember when NATO countries hit Libya?

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Literally not Article 5. They can talk to each other and decide to do things that aren’t obligated by the treaty using the NATO organizational structure. The Libya mission was only the countries who willingly joined in, not a treaty obligation. That wasn’t even in response to an attack on a NATO member. JFC, why are you arguing about this? These are just facts.

      • @MellowYellow13
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        02 months ago

        How’d you get so ignorant? Natural causes or at birth?