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I’d be glad if NATO didn’t exist.

It would mean countries wouldn’t feel threatened by their neighbors, and no invasions would happen.

But until that is the case, NATO is necessary.

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I would much prefer every country in the planet being in NATO.

Any country attacks any other country? Literally the whole world goes to defend it. So no invasions are possible.

It wouldn’t work though. Wouldn’t take much time for alliances to form that agree to not follow NATO’S rules.

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Nah, I want war. I want the rest of the world to go to war with the US. They’ve got a Nazi problem. We beat the Nazis in 1945 and we might need to beat them again in 2045.

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My brother in freedom, we first need to make sure the US and all of our big shiny weapons are on the side against the Nazis. I think we have a good shot at it, but it’s not a guarantee.

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Lmfao who’s the warmonger now?

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My brother in freedom, we first need to make sure the US and all of our big shiny weapons are on the side against the Nazis. I think we have a good shot at it, but it’s not a guarantee.

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-32 points

Nato already does not enforce their mission against the US and US backed vassel states

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Nato already does not enforce their mission against the US and US backed vassel states

When did the US invade a member of NATO, again?

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I’d like your comment more if it said: “I’d be glad if NATO didn’t have to exist”

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And I’d like your comment more if it said “Ricky is the bestest person on all of the world” but we can’t all have what we want.

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Are you my hundred year old Jewish great uncle? How’d you get on here?

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Every species has weapons embedded into its body, some organisms are specialized members of the species, such as queens and babies, but all species spend a portion of their precious energy budget building weapons.

Given how ruthlessly evolution prunes out anything that doesn’t give an advantage, I think this gives significant information about the nature of existence.

Hostility appears to be as universal as entropy, and just as manageable.

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Fun fact. Being the most complex object in the known universe. The human brain is the lowest entropy place we know…

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The most complex object in the universe … according to the brain.

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Life feeds on life

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre#False_leads

NATO isn’t there to defend you, it’s there to serve the interests of a bunch of rulers and elites

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That might be hard to grasp but sometimes the interests or rulers and elites do align to some degree with the average person in their country. Most rich and powerful people have a lot of investments that are worth significantly less when unpredictable things such as invasions happen that disrupt trade.

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-27 points

Humanity is literally on the verge of extinction due to global warming and you still believe rulers gives a single shit to anything that isn’t money or power? War is a business.

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Believe it or not, both things can be true

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Stuff can be two things!

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Did you even read any of the link posted?

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I mean the rulers and elites live in the same countries as many of us do and they sure as shit don’t want war where they live. It might not be here to defend us, but it’s here to defend the countries we live in.

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War is a business and a tool to get more power. Rulers and elites cares about money and wealth they don’t give a fuck about the planet or peasants. Just look around yourself

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I can’t hear you with that imperialist cock brushing against your tonsils.

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