• couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    It’s important not to conflate the attack on Iraq with NATO. Not that many nations were dumb enough to follow Bush into that one

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      2 days ago

      Exactly, The Article 5 thing didn’t fly, so they created a “coalition of the willing” instead. But that didn’t have anything to do with NATO.

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      Still, many members of the “willing” were NATO members, so NATO servicemen lost their lives for a US war.

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        Most NATO members weren’t part of that ‘coalition’, and most members of that coalition weren’t NATO members. So I think it’s at the very least a bit disingenious to try and rub those two things together