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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Trump's Pentagon insisted on a go-it-alone approach to Iran at the outset. This wasn't NATO's choice it was Hegseth's choice.

Even fucking Chimp-in-Chief Bush Jr had the decency to assemble the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. Rubio couldn't be bothered to get the fucking Turks and Saudis on board, and they've hated Iran since the Ottoman Empire fell.

Absolutely bonkers to talk about this as some kind of NATO failure to comply when the treaty was never invoked to begin with. Doubly so, when you consider how many NATO bases are still ultimately being used by US forces to get hardware into position.