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"This war has nothing to do with NATO. It's not NATO’s war," Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. "NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory," he added.

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[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

Berlin said NEIN!

[–] Fluke@feddit.uk 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The response from everyone else should be, "Why would we join a war that's already been won?"

Give him his own bloviating bullshit back, served up nice and cold.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

I think Boris Pistorius was on point:

"What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates that the powerful US navy cannot do?"

[–] J92@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

Please, sleep alone in the bed you shat in.

It feels a lot like Trump shits and then asks us to wipe his ass clean.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 273 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired," Kornelius said.

[–] track_stick_baboon@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

That paragraph alone, I must frame it.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 73 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"but...but..usually when I fuck things up someone sorts it out for me. Why won't you fix my massive fuck up?"

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

You're almost ~~eight~~ eighty. Soon you'll be ~~one of the big boys~~ dead.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 159 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Good answer. Fuck Benjamin and Donald Ducks war. They don't even know why they did it. NATO is not for undocumented wars.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ah. You don't know about the Mossad CIA operation that started in the 80s and is still running today. You see Epstein and Maxwell gathered blackmail on the most rich in powerful people in the world. Israel is now using that blackmail trove and intelligence gathered from years of selling governments software to expand Israel into "Greater Israel".

Did you also miss Ghislaine being invite on the 9/11 shadow council?

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In fairness, they know exactly why they did it:

For The Idiot: Israel needs our help to stop the 40-something-year-old "imminent" threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb (that was supposedly already stopped earlier last year when we "thoroughly destroyed" thir enrichment labs."

For Bibi, it's an opportunity to realize Israel's version of manifest destiny, and to kill people he doesn't like. Remember how everyone was all, "Boy I hope W doesn't go nuclear on the middle east" after 9/11? 10/7 has had the same effect on Bibi, except he was predisposed for the merciless violence. He's never seen these adversaries as "people." W rarely thought about them at all.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago

It's about two fascist leaders making desperate plays to stay in power. That's it.

[–] Ninjasftw@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Also isn't there pending corruption charges against him that are constantly put on hold because they are at war?

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

For now, I'd dare a bet on Merz getting back to sucking corpo cock

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 7 points 20 hours ago

He worked for BlackCock i think. 

[–] remon@ani.social 34 points 1 day ago (17 children)

But not out of principle ... our ships just don't go that far without breaking down!

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And for 80 years, we were quite happy with that!

— love, your neighbors

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

In the words of Knorkator

Geh aus dem Weg, du Arschgesicht

Eh mann, du stinkst nach Klo

Gib lieber auf, das schaffst du nicht

Und nun zurück in den Zoo

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