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NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm not sure who would say that it was to 'stop NATO aggression', but it's not hard to imagine it as a some kind of response to NATO's continued expansion around them.

NATO hasn't been in any direct operations against Russia but they have been involved in the ME where they have been active.

I think of it a lot in the same way as the US's pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt the US involved in SA long before the CMC?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well yea, the US has had imperial ambitions since its founding, but they definitely doubled down when their primary adversary set up camp in their backyard

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think of it a lot in the same way as the US’s pacific ocean and Caribbean territorial expansion and involvement in central america as a response to the Cuban Missile crisis and Soviet posturing.

The "Cuban" missile crisis was started by USA putting nukes in Turkey.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

yup.

[+] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Which happened first? NATO expansion, or Russian invasion?

There’s your answer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nato: Invades the entire middle east and fucks it up to steal oil

You: "What a great defensive alliance"

Where those WMD's in Iraq at?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I'm not saying there isn't reason for those countries to want to joint an alliance against their imperialist neighbor, but honestly it's kinda hard not to see how NATO's influence has been abused for purposes other than defense.