Current Events > The US offers to invite Australia, Israel and Japan to NATO

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https://www.easternherald.com/2023/04/13/the-united-states-has-offered-to-invite-australia-israel-and-japan-to-nato/

The accession of Australia, Israel and Japan to NATO will considerably increase the budget of the alliance and will make it a world organization. John Bolton, former national security adviser to the President of the United States, thinks so. The politician shared his thoughts on NATO expansion in a Wall Street Journal article.

Bolton recalled that even former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had offered to invite Japan, Australia, Israel and other countries committed to NATO defense spending targets to the NATO membership.

We should implement Jose Maria Aznars proposal, Bolton told RT.
Bolton considers it reasonable to increase US military spending and reach the indicators of the Ronald Reagan era, for this, as the politician believes, it will be necessary to reduce budget spending in other areas.

Previously, Finlands membership in NATO had been reported: the members of the alliance ratified its candidacy on March 31. The decision to join Sweden in NATO is still blocked by Hungary and Turkey.

Not sure about Israel

An article about a global NATO expansion, heavily featuring John Bolton, and explicitly referencing RT, sounds like blatant propaganda, but I could be wrong.

EDIT: In fact, the first sentence mentions the WSJ and then later references RT, so this is almost definitely fake.

Now, I know that we've long since abandoned the concept of NATO being "North Atlantic" based but those three seem a bit too far from it.

Fuck Israel, the last thing they need is more military power.

Japan and Australia is a stretch. But cool. But Isreal??? No!

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TC, where the fuck did you even get this article from?

Sounds like this is about every country choosing a side. I dont like this cause its an escalation towards an eventual war.

Israel? Might as well invite Russia and China too, let's make NATO useless!

stupid decision making

ScazarMeltex posted...

Now, I know that we've long since abandoned the concept of NATO being "North Atlantic" based but those three seem a bit too far from it.

Just rename NATO to "The No Russians Allowed Club".

Japan- Hell yes
Israel- Sure ok

Australia- We dont need that shit

Why would NATO agree to this? They go from 1 nation they really have to watch out for to potentially dozens since everyone in the middle east hates Israel, but also makes China a big issue.

Don't think this will ever happen.

No to Israel. We should be cutting our alliance with them if anything

America shouldn't be allied to apartheid states

Need a better source, TC.

Lol what is that site. I immediately got prompted to join their mailing list and the option to decline was to admit you're not wise.

Norman_Smiley posted...

Why would NATO agree to this? They go from 1 nation they really have to watch out for to potentially dozens since everyone in the middle east hates Israel, but also makes China a big issue.

Don't think this will ever happen.

Who would mess with Australia? It is all the way out there by itself doing weird shit.

Dakimakura posted...

Who would mess with Australia? It is all the way out there by itself doing weird shit.

Japan tried to invade it in ww2 i think

Zikten posted...

Japan tried to invade it in ww2 i think

There were plans but they never attempted an invasion.