• lath@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    So Trump’s US asking defensive allies of a defensive pact to participate in an unwarranted aggression against a country the pact has no trouble with?

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      Even better, that area of the world isn’t under the defense pact. When portuguese provinces in India were attacked in a full blown military invasion, NATO didn’t step in. At the time those provinces were an integrant part of a NATO country, not a “territory” neither a colony.

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      15 days ago

      Rutte doesn’t. The cherry on the pie top is that the Orange wanted members to send ships to Hormuz strait where they’d be sitting ducks.