• @DicJacobus
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    144 hours ago

    NATO was a tool of American influence. Just as the Warsaw pact was a tool of Russian influence.

    The trans-atlantic partnership is over. NATO is obsolete, a successor is needed. America has checked out,

    • Y|yukichigai
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      130 minutes ago

      NATO was that, but it may very well continue on as something else. Without the US mind you, but nothing says the rest of the NATO countries can’t just decide to stay in.

      Of course it might also be a good time for them to all make the international equivalent of the No Homer’s Club. Either way.

    • @TankovayaDiviziya
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      74 hours ago

      I wasn’t convinced at first that NATO is dead on Trump’s first term. But here we are and it is a long time coming.

      Some analysts think that the unipolar world is over, and that we’re heading into a multipolar world again but dominated by regional blocs. The EU is definitely there, and sometime later the African Union will become more cohesive and globally influential. But I don’t see Latin America having as strong regional grouping as the EU. In Asia, we can forget it because Asians tend to be insular. There is ASEAN but they do not have the same solidarity as the EU.

    • @doodledup
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      4 hours ago

      Nato is not dead just because the US leaves it. The EU wasn’t dead either after the UK left.

      • @DicJacobus
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        74 hours ago

        the US and Hungary have no reason to officially leave NATO because they can sabotage it from within and use it to blackmail and steer Europe into the position they want, being puppets of Russia and US.

        the last thing America wants is a detatched Europe that isnt allied with them, they see independent Europe as a hostile entity, they are only interested in Europe being vassal states.

        • ✺roguetrick✺
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          11 hour ago

          France and the UK are more than capable of maintaining an article 5 nuclear umbrella. If that’s all NATO is worth, it’s still enough.

          • @DicJacobus
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            153 minutes ago

            France is one election away from Marine Le Pen kissing the feet of Putin.

    • @rational_lib
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      24 hours ago

      For one why limit it to the North Atlantic? Japan, South Korea, and Australia should get in on the action too. And France and the UK can help them all get nukes (yes I mean that seriously - US and Russia being the only large nuclear powers is a disaster). Now would be a great time for the stable democracies (not the US) to create a new alliance.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        South Korea and particularly Japan doesn’t need help getting nukes. Japan in particular has never been afraid of showing an advanced space program(for icbm technology) and their immense plutonium stockpile. They could assemble ICBMs that could target anywhere in the world in a matter of weeks.

        • Y|yukichigai
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          128 minutes ago

          Yeah, but if they can do it that fast on their own, imagine how much faster they can get it done with help.

          Besides, if China starts getting a little froggy Japan and South Korea are going to need a lot more than a few armaments to ward them off.

    • @Gammelfisch
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      112 minutes ago

      Under Putin’s Sock Puppet, most certainly. However, the US MIC might hold the key to bring the USA back to being the USA.