On Thursday, Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri said that his country has applied to become a “global partner” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). ⠀

Argentina has been an “extra-NATO ally” since 1998, when then-U.S. President Bill Clinton gave the green light to Argentine President Carlos Menem, but “global partner” status is a “step up.”

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    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      Based on what happened to Ukraine, I don’t blame any nation for running to NATO as fast as they can.

        • wildncrazyguy
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          27 months ago

          I wouldn’t put it past them, They have crossed over the Pacific Ocean before ☺️

          • queermunist she/her
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            17 months ago

            They’d have to cross Chile too, though. Or I guess go around them Southern cape. Either way, kind of impractical!

        • @Zehzin
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          17 months ago

          Even if he invaded he’d leave in a week that shit ain’t worth it

        • @[email protected]
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          -27 months ago

          Venezuela almost invaded Guyana. If Guyana was a NATO member it never would have been considered.

            • @[email protected]
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              27 months ago

              Didn’t happen yet. Venezuela is still escalating tensions with force buildups on the border and passing laws claiming the territory, even though they agreed to go through the ICJ to settle the dispute.

              • wildncrazyguy
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                7 months ago

                The whole Venezuela v Guyana thing is complicated as hell. It essentially started with the Dutch & Britain drawing Guyana’s maps wrong. Flash forward and Venezuela is all pissed that Guyana’s maps include their territory so arbitration is called in…and the arbiters are the US and UK of all nations. And of course they vote in Guyana’s favor.

                So Venezuela of course is once again pissed and doesn’t accept the binding arbitration agreement. Flash forward again and now it’s been made even more complicated since oil has been found off the coast of the contested territory. Even worse, Guyana is poorly equipped to defend it.

                To put it simply, it’s a shitshow.

              • queermunist she/her
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                27 months ago

                Unfortunately Israel shitting all over the ICJ has delegitimized the court’s ability to weigh in on the matter, but they’re working it out through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. This is distinctly different from the situation in Ukraine because there wasn’t an equivalent organization that could handle disputes.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            its more like alliances in the americas is a giant venn diagram of sub alliances. its not really a black and white picture on country alliance. there are sub allliances that may only include 4 countries, then a few of those countries may have a seperate alliamce with 6 othera and such.

            for example, most countries in the Americas are defended by monroe doctrine in the case of outside of americas colonization. some of these alliamces are basically conditional alliances fighting a specific cause.

    • @Skullgrid
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      67 months ago

      what gave it away, the idea to get rid of the arg peso and replace it with the dollar?

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    Gradually surrounding Bolivia for its lithium and for having a socialist government

    Glad a fascist like Bolsonaro isn’t in power in Brazil right now. Wish I could say the same for Argentina…

  • @Skullgrid
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    -17 months ago

    This is a huge blow against nato. Let’s hope they have the wisdom to keep argentina out of their affairs and reject the application.

    Side note : this is obviously a joke, but against argentina, and not against NATO.