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Originally Posted by Chris
America is currently following through with deportation of foreign nationals in the face of judicial orders not to do so. I’m unclear on what basis the president of the United States could be forced to intervene anywhere militarily if he had chosen not do so - least of all a president who is a New York businessman, clearly knows what a protection racket looks like, and has explicitly stated that he intends to run Nato like one.
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Deporting people is worlds apart from not securing your treaty committed allies. It’s a zero cost activity with political upside.
It wouldn’t be like cutting and running from Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine. It’d be a decision that would affect America’s position in the geopolitical order for generations to come.
America has forward bases in NATO countries, and relies upon it for logistical and political support for its overseas escapades (and perhaps more importantly at present - political cover for Israel’s American funded and armed atrocities in Palestine). This fundamentally hasn’t changed.