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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are "fucking with" NATO, historically, but not attack. Lots of "im not touching you im not touching you" on the borders and north sea. Military submarines where they are not supposed to be. Sudden declarations of artillery practice in international waters causing ship travel to reroute, then not actually doing practice...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This needs to be said over and over - Russia is and has been at war with NATO for over a decade and NATO doesn't seem to even realize it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At war for over a decade is a bit of a stretch.

The most direct confrontation was Turkiye shooting down Russian jets that flew into their airspace when bombing in Syria about ten years ago. During Azerbaidschans attacks on Armenia both NATO and Russia made sure to not get into direct contact. Nothing came out of it directly. The sabotages in Europe that are organized by Russia have been a thing since 2022, maybe late 2021 unless i missed some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends on your definition of 'war'. They've definitely been in rightist America's ear about abandoning NATO since 2016.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

So is the US in Europe, South America, Middle East, Israel in all of the West, EU countries in Africa, China all over the world....

Trying to influence domestic policies in other countries is shitty, but it isnt war. Otherwise we are already in WW3 since many years.