• febra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’d rather not and I’m a European from a NATO country. Why tf would we want to expand to south America? We’ve got other fish to fry here.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      NATO global partner, not member. Like Australia, Colombia, Iraq, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Korea. Also Argentina is already a major Non-NATO ally. That’s a US designation but it’s not like the rest of us would have bad relationships with them… wait Myanmar is on there WTF are the Yanks thinking.

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      8 months ago

      Because it’s a defensive pact and having more members makes it a stronger deterrence force.

      Can you elucidate any downsides?

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      8 months ago

      Because it strongly advances NATO’s interests to build international alliances, especially at the cost of russia and china.