13 sats \ 4 replies \ @petertodd 9 Jul \ on: Argentina To Join NATO!? news
Why is this surprising? NATO's enemies are clearly the bad guys, and it makes sense for Argentina to be apart of a defensive alliance. The possibility of Argentina getting invaded by someone like China or maybe even Russia is certainly not zero.
If you want to live in peace, you have to have the ability to defend yourself. Doing that as part of an alliance is much cheaper.
Being a NATO member could increase the odds of a worldwide conflict spreading to South America.
If Argentina’s goal is to preserve peace, it would try to maintain neutral geopolitical posture and good trade relations with Russia or China and acquire BTC for its reserves as a geopolitical leveraging tool.
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Russia is quite happy to attack neutral, weak, countries and take their stuff. Ukraine being a perfect example.
That are simply thugs who are happy to steal what they can. The way to defend yourself against such thugs is to align with strong nations who are against thuggery. NATO is exactly that.
Remind me, when was the last time a country in NATO got invaded?
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