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The US Senate has introduced a resolution which proposes that the actions of Russia, Belarus "or proxy of Russia" be considered as an attack on NATO, if their actions lead to radioactive contamination of the allies' territory.

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[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Are they eager to join the war themselves or why do they do that?

[–] Kantiberl@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

You're right, we should do nothing in our power to prevent Russia from causing a catastrophic nuclear disaster affecting millions of people. Maybe we should just let them know we'll be like real upset and stuff if they do it. I bet that'll help.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

Proper tankie logic

[–] sectorfour@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If anything, I see this as an effort to avoid joining the war. Notification to Russia of what we and nato consider to be an attack. The nato alliance is worthless if they/we do not follow through with action when a member state is attacked.

[–] beefcat@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Why are you OK with genocide?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

They are eager for Russia to not cause a massive cloud of radioisotopes to drift over NATO countries.

There's a very easy way for Russia to keep NATO out of the war, they can just not do that.

Even easier, they could entirely stop their troops from getting killed if they'd just pull them out of Ukraine. Nobody wants to invade Russia. Not even Russians really want to invade Russia, it turns out.

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, we are not eager to join the war but russia keeps pushing the boundaries by doing worse and worse war crimes that are affecting more and more people

[–] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since when is causing thousands of casualties across Poland and several other countries not considered an act of war? if NATO sprayed orange all over Moscow with planes would you consider it one?

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The article reads as if the USA is pushing the message. There doesn’t seem to be internal debate within the NATO, with the concern coming from Poland. The USA behaves as if they speak for all NATO states.

It’s totally understandable and appropriate when Europe states raise these things. But the intensity about this coming from the USA raises my question what’s their game.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Probably would like to deter the irradiation of countries in Europe in advance. Easier to deter than to clean up after the Kremlin decides to trigger this.