President Milei has formally put in an application to join the global military alliance.

  • theinspectorst@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    How would this even work? NATO is a treaty for collective defence against an attack on a member’s territory ‘in Europe or North America’. Argentina isn’t in Europe or North America, so presumably wouldn’t get the Article 5 protection that is the cornerstone of collective defence - unless the treaty was amended to also cover members’ territory in South America?

    (Sidenote: to the best of my knowledge, since NATO was established only one country has attacked the territory of a NATO member in South America… 🤔)

    • CoffeeAddict@kbin.socialOP
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      7 months ago

      I honestly have no idea. It also looks like Argentina is keeping their claim on the Falklands, too, so that muddies things even further.