1y ago

Argentina seeks NATO partner status amid pivot to the West

www.unionleader.com

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NATO should expand its coverage to the southern hemisphere as well.
- NSWEATO
  Everything to the North, south, west, and East of the atlantic Atlantic,
I'd rather not and I'm a European from a NATO country. Why tf would we want to expand to south America? We've got other fish to fry here.
- NATO global partner, not member. Like Australia, Colombia, Iraq, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Korea. Also Argentina is already a major Non-NATO ally. That's a US designation but it's not like the rest of us would have bad relationships with them... wait Myanmar is on there WTF are the Yanks thinking.
- Because it's a defensive pact and having more members makes it a stronger deterrence force.
  Can you elucidate any downsides?
Yeah fuck that. We already have enough problems with Turkey as part of NATO. We don't need another belligerent state that literally only going to cause problems.
And it's not even like Argentina provides some utility like Turkey does by being so close to Russia and controlling the black sea. Argentina has no real strategic value, has an absolutely dogshit military and is more likely to go to war with a NATO country (again) then do anything to defend one.
Let them rot.
- We aren't happy with our partners supporting and causing untold loss of life, genocide, poverty, material destruction in our neighborhood either but I guess you guys see us as the guard dog you keep on your front yard after you come back from burning down neighbors' houses once a year.
- lol you know nothing about Argentina beyond the click bait headlines of articles you never read. With this amount of vitriol, you can only be from the UK.
  
  Tell me how I'm wrong then... ill wait.
  
  American here, everything in recent news suggests Milei is a clown though, and I wouldn’t trust another floppy haired politician’s motives without more information.
NORTH Atlantic, killer. Or even vaguely northern, like Italy
- South Korea and Australia are NATO partners as well
  
  Oh they're definitely in the Atlantic unlike Argentina
  /s
- That's why it's not NATO membership, just NATO global partnership. You actually have to be in Europe to join NATO, but you can cooperate militarily and with intelligence sharing.
  Point is, Argentina would not get to call for Article 5 and military help, but they do get the benefit of a looser alliance.
- vaguely northern, like Italy
  Italy is at the same latitude as new york and parts of canada believe it or not

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