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The linked article says the US has threatened to reduce its support, not committed to leave. Things are bad enough without exaggerating like this.
by ancillary 8mo ago
The linked article says the US has threatened to reduce its support, not committed to leave. Things are bad enough without exaggerating like this.
- alephnerd 8mo agoFunctionally, us not participating in defense coordination mechanisms is the equivalent of leaving NATO, as we would not be able to unify response.
- cvwright 8mo agoBy that logic, the European members who didn’t meet their defense spending obligations for years and years have already left NATO too.
- alephnerd 8mo agoThat's the implication the administration is trying to force. Basically, we are leaving Europe because we no longer have a commitment there and concentrate on Asia and the Americas. This has been a stated policy objective of ours for almost 2 decades now.