• x00z@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    NATO just has to keep him running after a carrot until the next elections, or the possible US revolution.

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    dj thought he could force NATO into a war - that’s like trying to make a lifeguard fight a shark

    “But but but! You said you’d come to rescue me!”

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    If NATO were to be killed, the non-US members would most likely want to create a new alliance just like NATO but without the US in it. So if the US leaves it may be simplest to just tweak the existing one.

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      A NATO without the US would have many benefits for its members, especially the downstream economic effects it would have.

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        23 hours ago

        NATO doesn’t give a lot of economic benefits. A hostile US and Russia would give us the increased defense spending we already have, at least we wouldn’t have to buy US equipment.

        However it is funny that the US was the entire problem with the TPP and Trump saved us from that. However we still have the CUSMA agreement to free ourselves from.

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          A hostile US and Russia would give us the increased defense spending we already have, at least we wouldn’t have to buy US equipment.

          That’s part of what I was referring to. We’d spend this locally or among partners. Right now a lot of NATO spending goes to the US military industrial complex.

          Then the other economic impact is that the US loses one more leverage tool to coerce us on various trade disputes. Which means we’d be able to negotiate better deals for us.