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Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response

Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response - Lemmy.World

UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route. The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices. However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

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TheObviousSolution 6d ago

As it should. NATO is a defense alliance, not a pedoking/kingbibi distraction gone bad. I hope the EU can keep holding on, because the influx into far right parties and EU election tampering has become noticeable enough to possibly change this in the future.

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HugeNerd 6d ago

NATO only does humanitarian bombing.

haha

Don’t you laugh, damn you.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

“NATO framed its bombing as a humanitarian intervention”

A purely defensive humanitarian bombing, mind you, according to astute international affairs observer TheObviousSolution.

Now, let me tell you about a country called Russia. They don’t do humanitarian bombings. That’s quite silly of them since all they needed to do is “frame” it as such.

But what can you expect from a country that can apparently invade all of Europe with a single washing machine CPU.

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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bobzer

Let’s ask one related question so everyone can decide whether any argument here will be handled in good faith or not.

Do you believe Bosnian Serbs were commiting genocide?

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humanspiral 6d ago

Original conflict was about Kosovo. 1000 years of progroms by both Ottomans and Serbia to the region. Serbian claims of Albanian gangs doing mean stuff certainly had a basis. Serbian army intervening is like Russia defending Donbas, or like NATO intervention for Kosovo/Albania (both picking a side), and more legitimate than US recent bombing of Carribean fishing boats.

Fighting in Bosnia, even if groups had arms supply support from different sides is much harder to make the usual political BS warcrime accusations that comes from home grown political narratives, and political BS against specifically Bosnian Serbs is an extreme stretch that has never stopped US+Colonial empire scum before.