gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agoConsidering last night's results, I don't expect NATO to be credible 4 years from nowsh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square221fedilinkarrow-up1622
arrow-up1622external-linkConsidering last night's results, I don't expect NATO to be credible 4 years from nowsh.itjust.worksgravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square221fedilink
minus-squareFundMECFSlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoCan NATO still mean something if the US leaves? I think so, but there is much soul searching to be done.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoSorta, but not really tbh. The US was always intrinsically backstopping the security side of things. Without us in it - and I mean this very seriously - it’s not really a credible threat to Russia or anyone else anymore.
minus-squareFundMECFSlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoNATO article 5 will still have use in self defence, but obviously it will be way less impressive
minus-squareCosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThe article is only powerful if it’s enforced. I suspect that Putin’s direct report won’t really sign on to any sort of defense of European countries.
Can NATO still mean something if the US leaves? I think so, but there is much soul searching to be done.
Sorta, but not really tbh. The US was always intrinsically backstopping the security side of things. Without us in it - and I mean this very seriously - it’s not really a credible threat to Russia or anyone else anymore.
NATO article 5 will still have use in self defence, but obviously it will be way less impressive
The article is only powerful if it’s enforced.
I suspect that Putin’s direct report won’t really sign on to any sort of defense of European countries.