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ScurvyBOT t1_ja111in wrote

Maybe the original 1949 alliance:

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States

Should tell any fucking obvious country who's alignment is counter NATO to fuck off.

Dogs in the street can see the block on "new members" joining are the rats in our nest.

The 1949 originals need to grow balls and cut out the cancer that's undermining NATO.

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HannoverRathaus t1_ja1aom4 wrote

Yes, I think the Original 12 should form a governing team, with the power to vote-in and vote-out other members. Allowing some no-load country led by a wannabe dictator to singlehandedly derail the membership application of a country with a superior political and military establishment is a travesty.

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musashisamurai t1_ja1fk7o wrote

Consensus is kinda important for alliances though. I think a more important thing for both the EU and NATO would have been to make decisions based on how those nations were, rather than what they might be after joining.

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ShadowBannedAugustus t1_ja2610a wrote

What a stupid take. It is mostly the east Europeans with Poland in the front line who lead the support for Ukraine within NATO. Germans and their appeasement politics until a few months ago is the biggest part of the reason for where we are now.

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takeitineasy t1_ja27kmo wrote

Around half of those were terrible colonial nations, and one can make the argument that France and the UK still are. Nations whose historical and perhaps current sins are even greater than that of hungary's. One of them actually voluntarily left the EU recently. Hungary is being a dickhead now, but never in its history did it do something as bad as Belgium did. Great selection.

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