this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
928 points (97.3% liked)

Fuck The USA

456 readers
320 users here now

founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The point of establishing NATO was to have a military capable of threatening the USSR.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The point of NATO was to have a mutual defense pact that doesn't include wars of aggression that the USSR wouldn't ignore even without nuclear threats, but sure.

Something makes me doubt you apply the same rhetoric to the existence of the Warsaw Pact for some reason.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well no, the Warsaw pact was a defensive organization, theres a fundamental difference between the foreign policy of countries where capital dictates policy and communist countries.

They are literally both defensive pacts