• bumphot@lemy.lol
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    8 months ago

    Maybe they don’t want to die in middle east for US oil companies.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      You got downvoted but you’re not wrong. NATO is getting good PR at the moment because of Ukraine, but the invasion of Iraq and Libya are examples of how god-awful NATO is. Iraq was invaded out of trumped up accusations but the real reason is gaining access to Iraqi oil. I remember it was France and UK who were antsy to invade Libya while US refused initially but eventually caved in. Look at the long term implications of such invasions. ISIS sprung up, and Libya is in a civil war causing thousands of refugees which Europe absorbed.

      NATO is getting good image at the moment because of recency bias