calling the shots in europe is part of the us strategy to perpetuate imperialism. nato wont go anywhere.
NATO hasn’t been credible since they helped the US perpetrate a brutally violent colonialist pity party in Afghanistan.
For people outside NATO it hasn’t been credible for a long time now.
For people inside NATO its surprising how much credibility they have considering how much just straight terrorism they’ve carried out over the years. Defensive alliance my arse
NCD not beating the MIC bootlickers allegations
Now watch red maga walk back on that too, like all of blue/red maga promises.
The only good thing that could’ve possibly come out of this, and it won’t even happen.
Love the implication that the shitty imperialist anglo organization was ever credible.
Good.
NATO is a trash organization. It’s basically Reich Lite.
It is the Fourth Reich
Oh wait, that's just post-WW2 West Germany
There were more Nazis in West Germany’s justice department after WWII than during Third Reich for example
Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.
Nazis in post-WW2 Germany’s government
From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.
Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler’s rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.
Alot of nazis basically kept doing what they already did like in the US’s operation bloodstone.
Wait … NATO was credible now?
good?
No
it’s pretty good
Trump’s point about NATO countries needing to adhere to the funding that was agreed with mutually is a good one and I’m super confused why he was ridiculed about it when he said it. I mean, what’s the point of the alliance if we don’t do the things we agree to do?
He was ridiculed because he thought that America was paying these countries to close the gap. He thought he could save money if the other countries would own up. Which is just not true. Since the US didn’t put a dime into these countries’ military spending. If all NATO countries would reach the requirement it wouldn’t move the US military budget. It’s in America’s own interest to keep the forward operating bases in Europe fully staffed and armed.
The problem is the technology gap between nations. Europeans are literally sending over their smartest and they are going over because all they care about is greed, politics be damned because because to them it’s a rest of the world going around in a cycle of stupid problem. Which is stagnating both societies, science, and global security.
Europe militarily has been in shambles since WW2, evidenced by how much of its colonial ambitions it had to give up. It wasn’t just oligarchs suddenly becoming good. What is going to happen is not that Europe is suddenly going to become capable of sustaining NATO, it’s that it is going to have to give concessions to the nations that aren’t going to be cutting them off. Before, that was the US, now it will have to be Russia and China.
I despise him, but 1 of 2 good things I think he did was call out NATO nations for not contributing their fair share. Merkel’s face when he said this was like that of a dog that’s been caught getting into the cupboard.
(the other thing he did was to call out drug companies for making medications so expensive. of course he didn’t followup, but that was a good thing to say)
@vga @gravitas_deficiency Adhering to the much-flaunted spending commitments wasn’t ridiculous, but Trump’s framing of it was.
Back when he raised it, he was threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance if other nations didn’t start adhering to it, and as recently as this year he’s said he’ll encourage Putin to do “whatever the hell he wants” to states who don’t meet the spending commitment, directly undermining the collective defence principle of NATO.
European here. That money is more like a protection racket than anything. When the US means protection they mean vassality. The NATO empowered fascists and killed left-wing politician. Fuck the NATO.
🙏🙏🙏 here’s hoping 🙏🙏🙏
NATO will be fine. They’ll just have to up their game a bit militarily. If America wants to be insular and wrap a flag of isolationism around them, it’ll hurt in the short term, but after four years of being more independent of Americas tit, its more than likely the US that will find itself less relevant globally.
Even before this, there was already rumblings, not just in China, but elsewhere, about ditching the american dollar standard and returning to the gold standard. That’s just going to gain momentum as soon as Trump starts trying to wave his mushroom around.
Hopefully the EU takes over. It has a lot more economic strength then NATO. Also the UK is strong as well, but that can be managed. Turkey does its own things anyway and I would not trust them. Norway and Iceland are not that important. Canada is going to go with the US anyway. The advantage is easier common funding for projects, due to the EU having more direct access to money. There are also a lot of the basics in the works already.
Yeah, what is your reasoning behind that statement about Norway and Iceland?
Norway and Iceland are crucial to European defense - what are you talking about?
NATO will kick us to the curb and rise to the challenge. We will need them one day and they will say no.
Nato without USA is still bigger military than Russia.
We would eventually crush Russia in a real war, the problem is that without going to actual war, we get to use only a small part of that.
Yep, and thankfully the EU has seen the way the US is going and started to react appropriately.
But with a fraction of the nukes, which is the actual big stick part of NATO
It took two nukes for Japan to wave the white flag. Do we really need 5,000+ nukes for anything? France has 290 and UK has 225. Thats enough to wipe one or multiple countries clean off of the map without any form of surrender.
Yes, antimissile systems will shoot down most of your missile volley, so you need to launch enough that they become overwhelmed and the few that make it through accomplish your goal.
We don’t know exactly how much “most” is, but its enough that the powers that be consider our current level of armament to be necessary.
Will the ones shit down rain down radioactive dust everywhere?
Yes, but to a way lesser degree.
The bombs become really nasty by creating a big chain reaction (boom) and then radiating the dust the explosion creates (aftermath) which then spreads everywhere.
Without a controlled explosion there will be significantly less radiating reactions and radioactive dust.
It’s like deep inhaling the smoke of a package of burning fire starters VS throwing said burning fire starter into a warehouse full of fireworks (and for the sake of this argument you cant leave the warehouse and have no equipment whatsoever)
Both will probably fuck you up a bit if you’re to close, but one is comparably insignificant.
This is where I think there is a misunderstanding. You don’t just fire only nukes at a country. You fire a multi pronged attack with regular bombardment aswell.
Shooting down a nuclear icbm doesn’t really help as much as you think, if it catches it.
Not to mention the atmosphere lighting up wouldn’t be much better
You know they don’t go critical when you shoot them right?
Doesn’t that depend on how they’re set up? I’d imagine in the 50+ years since they’ve been invented they would have designed it so it could, specifically because modern anti missile defenses exist.
I mean, I know world governments can be dumb, but I would imagine they’re not that dumb as to bother maintaining a key super weapon just to not upgrade it / design it so that it won’t work if used.
Maybe but no not really the triggering process is extremely fast but kinda fragile because everything needs to be compressed just so.
They upgrade them, it’s public knowledge for the budget. Usually it’s faster smaller or different form factor plus renewal programs.
A lot of that is because rest of NATO is under US umbrella. Not like nukes are high tech at this point. Most of Europe could get nukes real fast if they wanted, but everyone has been better served by it being to many Nuclear Powers up to this point
And I expect they will get nukes real fast. Ukraine is probably going to go for that, tbh. It’s kinda their only option at this point.
In the game of nukes you don’t really need many.
You can destroy the world just so many times.
The rest is just for showing who has it bigger (the arsenal)
But are we bringing nukes to a biological warfare… umm… party? Or hell, AI drones/nanobots?
