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> No, it diminishes. NATO is a defensive alliance. The more members it has [..] A similar line of argument about alliances and treaties preventing war was used
by logifail 4y ago
> No, it diminishes. NATO is a defensive alliance. The more members it has [..]
A similar line of argument about alliances and treaties preventing war was used before the First World War. We all know how that ended.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> similar line of argument about alliances and treaties preventing war was used before the First World War NATO was formed with that in mind. A single treaty document publicly ratified. No secret pacts. No back-alley alliances.
- calf 4y agoIt's also a bad concept. Defensive alliance is a loaded term, but people use it in arguments as if it was a well defined mathematical object.
- logifail 4y ago> Defensive alliance is a loaded term It also doesn't appear to be a very accurate description of the things NATO has been getting up to since the end of the Cold War. "[NATO] has been involved in military operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa"[0] You don't have to be a spin doctor to realise that what seems like "defence" to one person is another's war of aggression. German defence minister Peter Struck memorably said in 2004 that "Germany was also [being] defended on the Hindu Kush".[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO [1] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/service/bulletin/rede-des-bundesministers-der-verteidigung-dr-peter-struck--784328 https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/service/bulletin/rede...
- CRConrad 4y ago> Defensive alliance is a loaded term, but people use it in arguments as if it was a well defined mathematical object. Almost like "defensive weapons". Almost, because that's even worse.