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Including, of course, the defensive invasion of Afghanistan using article 5.
by jean_tta 5y ago
Including, of course, the defensive invasion of Afghanistan using article 5.
- willvarfar 5y agoThere have been a long history of "hot" confrontations and proxy wars like Korea, Cuba and Angola, Vietnam, the Russians in Afghanistan and then the US in Afghanistan etc. But go ask random people on streets in the US, Russia or Europe, and they will focus on the "cold war" and the iron curtain and NATO's defense of the west against the threat of Soviet expansion.
- jean_tta 5y agoIf you ask about NATO _today_, I'd wager people would see it as a fancy name for "alliance with the US", which includes but is not limited to defense against Russia. A lot of people would think about Afghanistan, for instance.
- sgent 5y agoYes but only the Afghanistan invasion was a NATO operation, the rest were either US only or US and allied countries, but not NATO. The NATO treaty only protects members if they were attacked in Europe or the North Atlantic. If bin Laden had hit the Sear Tower instead of the WTC it would probably not have been a NATO operation.