PipMar 3

NATO will not join US–Israel campaign, Rutte says

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NATO will not join US–Israel campaign, Rutte says - feddit.org

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Show threadHubiMar 3
Well duh, it’s a defensive alliance.
Show threadFlordaManMar 3
Tell that to the people of yugoslavia in 1999
Show threadyucandu
I did, they were in my class growing up in Canada, they said thanks. Have you talked to any of those people who fled that genocide?
Mar 3 at 8:56pmWeb
Show threadFlordaManMar 3
Not my point at all. I did in no way said it was unjustified or unjust. I was just saying it was offensive and thus contradicted what the original comment said.
Show threadCanadaPlusMar 3
You know, I don’t actually know how that unfolded. Was it NATO itself, or just all the NATO members? I kind of assumed it was like Iraq.
Show threadohulancutashMar 4
It was NATO itself, operating under a UN mandate.
Show threadAqariusMar 4
What UN mandate? They explicitly didn’t have one, because China and Russia would block it.
Show threadohulancutashMar 4
NATO was enforcing S/RES/1199, which demanded the end of action which affected civilians and end military action.
Show threadAqariusMar 4
S/RES/1199 doesn’t authorize any kind of enforcement. It makes demands of a ceasefire, endorses observers, and threatens to “consider further action”, but doesn’t actually give any mandate for anything.
Show threadCanadaPlusMar 4

In light of the other thread, you might be thinking of 1995. 1999 was a bit more like Iraq II, but more members participated since the genocide wasn’t just a thing Dick Cheney made up.

NATO these days spends a lot of time just negotiating with itself to actually set up any defences, so these stories about the UN calling up NATO and saying “please bomb here”, and then NATO just going “okay”, are kind of alien to me.