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riversedge

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3. ...."Nato was created as a...defensive alliance,"

Reply to pat_k (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:56 AM

Tuesday

Trump got told, but I doubt he will listen.

..........."Nato was created as a…defensive alliance," Gen Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff, told the BBC on Monday.

"It was not an alliance that was designed for one of the allies to go on a war of choice and then oblige everybody else to follow," he said. "I'm not sure that's the sort of Nato that any of us wanted to belong to."

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