NATO apologism - eviltoast

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  • squid_slime@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    calling something whataboutism is such a cop-out. what has the user said that distracts from the greater debate?

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      3 months ago

      Cause the USA could leave NATO tomorrow and the discussion of NATO vs Russia wouldn’t change. So the USA is irrelevant in this conversation. Plus, those were USA/CIA actions, not NATO actions. And NATO isn’t ruled by the USA, no matter how much some people around here like insisting.

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        3 months ago

        the conversation had mentioned the US, western powers and derailed to an extent from the original post.