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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great response. I think everything you said is essentially the promise that NATO makes, but as I said to another poster, if India is going to nuke Canada because we accused them of assassination, they will definitely nuke anyone that attacks them. Canada has no nukes of our own, so we couldn't directly retaliate. Now if you're the leader of another NATO country, are you going to risk getting nuked for the sake of NATO? I just don't think anyone else would be willing to step up like that when the shit hits the fan. Think about it... are you willing to risk getting your country nuked for NATO? I just don't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ack that you just don't know.

In answer to your question, yes. Other NATO countries will go to war if any NATO country is attacked.

Think about it... are you willing to stand by and embolden a country by doing nothing when they nuke another? Any country that would be willing to nuke another over being called out for involvement in assassination is one that needs to be neutralized immediately to remove that nuclear threat.

By your very logic, if they are willing to nuke over nothing, they'll also do it to countries that sanction them. Just because you wouldn't help your friends in a fight or if they got attacked doesn't mean everyone is the same as you and just watch while it happens doing nothing. Think about it..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By your very logic, if they are willing to nuke over nothing, they'll also do it to countries that sanction them.

Good point, but the number of countries sanctioning India would definitely far exceed the number that would retaliate militarily against them. Non-NATO countries would join in on sanctions but would not join the fight, so there would simply be too many sanction targets to retaliate against.

Just because you wouldn't help your friends in a fight or if they got attacked doesn't mean everyone is the same as you and just watch while it happens doing nothing.

I'm Canadian so I've been considering this from the viewpoint of the one who got attacked. I'm really having trouble believing my friends (other NATO countries) would put their necks out on the line, and I think they would be more cautious in the face of their own nuclear destruction.