An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The policy options are detailed in a note expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant the United States access, basing and overflight rights - known as ABO - for the Iran war, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the email.
The email stated that ABO is “just the absolute baseline for NATO,” according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.
Afaik there’s no mechanism within the nato charter or any of its founding documents or principles that would allow this. So the US doing this would probably only hasten NATO falling apart, and lead to the forming of a new iteration of it without the US.
Edit: and, uh, NATO itself agrees with that first part
Without the US? How the North American Treaty Organization exists without US?
Canada.
Lmfao NYT coming in hot with the AI slop 🤪
Honestly though, that’s a hilariously bad and super obvious fuck-up
AI slop? I’ll bet it is not Artificial Intelligence, current models are way too good for that. This here is some Natural Stupidity.
100% organic human slop
I wouldn’t say they’re too good, but the kind of mistakes they make are different to this one.
Iirc they replaced a bunch of editors with LLM review
Also, even if NATO stood for that, Canada is in NATO, so it’s still North American. The US does not own the Americas.
And it should end with “without the US”. Fuck the US and their center of the world bullshit, there are a lot of beautiful countries in the Americas
NATOWTUS
Does not own the America’s yet
~please note that this is just a joke based on my username and Iwholeheartedlywishsomeonewouldsavemefromthisgoddamnfuckingnightmarehesusfuckongchristaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh~
lmao
Yeah, this is a really good way to just end up with ‘EUTO’ or something like that, and then the US losing its leases on… what, basically all of the European bases sans the UK?
That would uh, kinda royally fuck our logistics, even more than they are currently fucked.
Anyway, I guess we should just rename London ‘Airstrip One’ at this point.
Honestly, given how idiotic we’re being these days, I wouldn’t be super shocked if the UK also told us to kindly fuck off.