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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

Nope.

Those questions are not tough for them at all. The propaganda has it covered and they will give some version of "we tried our gosh darned best to bring the savages freedom and democracy but their barbarian culture was simply too primitive".

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

NATO wasn't involved in Iraq were they?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not NATO, countries that just so happened to be members of NATO for completely unrelated reasons don’t even worry about it.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Bush desperately tried to tie saddam to al-qaeda so he could trigger article 5 by claiming 9/11 was an act of aggression. That didn't pan out but the empires most loyal dogs still went with the us on their massmurder campaign. See the "coalition of the willing"

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough, nobody in Poland seem to even remember this happened.

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Ah, Yugoslavia. How dare anyone disturb that genocide.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There was intense conflict along ethnic lines on both sides. NATO didn't intervene to "stop a genocide," it bombed hundreds of state-owned factories and murdered over 2000 civilians (including 300 Albanians, which NATO claimed to be "protecting"). The real drive was to destroy a nation that dared to be a part of the Non-Aligned Movement, and make them subservient to western interests, opened up for foreign plundering.

The ethnic violence was horrible, but NATO didn't really fix it, it took advantage of it as a reason to get involved and achieve the aims of western powers economically.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why doesn't NATO disturb the current genocide in Gaza?

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, who do they think they are? NATO?

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[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Gotta love 2025. Is this an alt-right post or an alt-left post? No one can tell. Horseshoe theory, etc etc.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The right is pro-NATO, as NATO is the main millitant arm propping up western imperialism, and the left is anti-NATO for the same reasons. There's no "alt-left," lol.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Anyone against NATO is against Western imperialism and would be considered a "leftist" by Western standards (just humane and ethical for the rest of the world). I don't see what can be misunderstood here.

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[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That list of nations is very short.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Never ask an EU supporter about why their own country doesn't get to decide things for its self

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] rdri@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

With all that is happening in the world, someone decides to spend time to make a meme about NATO being a bad guy?

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[–] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)
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