{"id":3306,"date":"2010-06-02T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T10:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T10:40:50","slug":"so-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"So, NATO&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is an international military alliance?<\/p>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n<p>NATO is based on a collective defence system, whereby NATO member states agree to the mutual defence of any member state in response to an attack by any external party?<\/p>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n<p>A civilian vessel of a NATO state was attacked, in international waters, by a foreign military force?<\/p>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n<p>So NATO is even now formulating plans to bomb the shit out of this aggressor under the mutual defence clause?<\/p>\n<p>Erm, no.<\/p>\n<p>Because the aggressor is Israel.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, the aggressor had been Iran or North Korea, the cruise missiles would be winging their way to those states right now.<\/p>\n<p>But not Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Because they can do what they want.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a Just system, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is an international military alliance? Check. NATO is based on a collective defence system, whereby NATO member states agree to the mutual defence of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}