• owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        Of course the whole “encourage Putin to attack other European nations” thing is stupid in typical Trump fashon, but less american imperialism is always welcome.

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          8 months ago

          How exactly will leaving NATO make America less imperialistic? Was it the safety of the mighty European security umbrella that enabled the US to be like that?

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    8 months ago

    It would backfire like Brexit. Imagine the USA openly shunted by all former allies about their war crimes and other international crimes. The US forgets they currently can get away with a lot, and they do, because they are also an important ally. If you remove their NATO support, what reason is left to whistle ignorance?

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      8 months ago

      Brexit was a disaster because the UK economy was third-place-and-shrinking in the economic block. They had no leverage.

      NATOXIT would be a much bigger deal, because the US is the premier global military power and the single largest exporter of weapons and associated tech.

      Also, the NATO thing is pure bluster in order to assert leverage over the bloc, while Brexit was a dog-catching-the-car scenario. The Tories invented so many fictions about how awful EU membership was that they couldn’t accept what generous concessions were offered. Meanwhile, Trump will happily take a big personal kickback for a small concession on arms sales.