Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world’s biggest military alliance.
I mean, who’s gonna fuck with Spain? France? Britain? Germany? Italy? Canada? Many countries in NATO are safe from foreign aggression for decades to come, NATO or no NATO. If so many of the major members in the defensive alliance don’t need defending, then it’s probably not a defensive alliance.
I mean, who’s gonna fuck with Spain? France? Britain? Germany? Italy? Canada? Many countries in NATO are safe from foreign aggression for decades to come, NATO or no NATO. If so many of the major members in the defensive alliance don’t need defending, then it’s probably not a defensive alliance.
There have recently been direct annexation threats against Canada.
Not by anybody NATO would get into a fight with.
The point is to make belligerents back down by raising the cost they’d have to pay by carrying through.
This particular belligerent backs down so often that there’s a special acronym for it, so NATO’s a perfectly good protective tool here.
Answered in my other reply, link for others https://lemmy.world/post/49055523/24607737