by Dmitry Zhdannikov (Reuters) The United States is assembling a multinational naval coalition to help safeguard commercial traffic from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement. On Thursday, the Pentagon said more than 20 countries had...
How the fuck did the US, the core of NATO, fail to get other NATO states that are entirely reliant on the US for defence to… Join a “peacekeeping operation”?
Fuck, they only got Canada to send 3 “officers” for “observation.”
it may have something to do with supporting genocide.
Pretty sure that those nations support free trade and rule of law, but it’s all about optics. They don’t want to throw their lot in with the US and take the PR hit with their voters
How the fuck did the US, the core of NATO, fail to get other NATO states that are entirely reliant on the US for defence to… Join a “peacekeeping operation”?
Fuck, they only got Canada to send 3 “officers” for “observation.”
This is pathetic.
Because NATO is a defensive pact, not an empire, and can’t just have its troops deployed with the unilateral will of the United States?
The US has received copious support in their prior offensive military actions. The fact that they’re not receiving much now is telling.
Indeed it is telling that Europe can’t be bothered to secure its own sea lanes.
it may have something to do with supporting genocide.
Pretty sure that those nations support free trade and rule of law, but it’s all about optics. They don’t want to throw their lot in with the US and take the PR hit with their voters
The US empire is in retreat, most people in the West and specially in the US still can’t see it.