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Or they might calculate WWIII isn't worth it? Imagine Russia attacks Latvia. Would the US really risk getting into direct conflict with Russia over it?
by dataflow 3y ago
Or they might calculate WWIII isn't worth it? Imagine Russia attacks Latvia. Would the US really risk getting into direct conflict with Russia over it?
- sph 3y agoWould the US really risk its name and face ignoring their biggest and most powerful military alliance? Honour and keeping your word are very important in geopolitics, especially among countries that have been allied for almost a century, and you won't remain the top dog very long if you avoid your duties at the first difficulty. So yes, if Russia attacks Latvia, you better believe the US is gonna send everything they have against Russia. That's the whole point of NATO.
- xdennis 3y agoI'm pro NATO, but I don't think the support of the US is guaranteed. The US has always been an unreliable partner: it depends on who's in power. If the republican war hawks or moderate Democrats are in power they would support Latvia, but libertarians and far leftists would say "it's not our problem".
- SamBam 3y agoIs Trump a libertarian or a far leftist? Because he's currently the cause of these discussions -- he's the one that people have the most doubts would agree to defending Latvia.
- sph 3y agoHe's neither. He's a big State conservative populist that cozies up to the far-right cretins as they represent what a lot of the silent, dissatisfied majority thinks.
- sph 3y agoThere are no libertarians or far left politicians in the Oval Office, now or in the near future. I cannot speak to how the US would behave in 50 years, but being true to its word it is mandatory for the US to project itself as the "world leader". The day the Oval Office is able to ignore its allies, it is the day the US is no longer a global leader. That's simply the cost to pay to be seen as the leader of the free world. The fact that some US politicians openly want to go down the route of reneging its allies speaks volumes about how long the US empire will last.
- dataflow 3y agoWould you really go to war over another country at the risk of you and your country getting nuked?
- pas 3y agoYes.. ? Russia already and continuously threatening other countries, the US included
- chasd00 3y agoIf the US didn't then NATO is effectively toothless, if the US did then Russia would be destroyed. I'm sure lots of officials in Moscow have spent a lot of time thinking about it.
- dataflow 3y ago> if the US did then Russia would be destroyed So would a lot of the US. I'm not sure Americans would want to die over this.
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- csallen 3y agoYes.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoThe risk is not getting involved. NATO is first and foremost a deterrent, destroying the credibility of that deterrent would destroy the rationale for NATO. To say nothing of the fact that it'd just be an invite to Russia to invade more countries. The seeds of WWII were sown by the appeasement of Hitler, which merely emboldened him.
- thatwasunusual 3y agoCapitalist US would never let such a big market go east without a fight.