I’m really unnerved by it. What are the potential consequences?

  • cmeio@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It can’t trigger the NATO treaty, as neither Israel nor Iran are NATO members

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      1 day ago

      That’s true enough, and that’s why I said that if Iran was backed by others and that retaliated in a way that might.

      Let’s say Iran blames the UK, so they explode something there. Or one of their allies decides to pull fuckery in Germany.

      That’s what I was talking about.

      Edit: the relevant section

      might retaliate in a way that triggers something like the nato treaty and you get some combination of countries compelled to do something, which could set off a series of conflicts that might spread.

      See the multiple mights and coulds? And that it said something like the nato treaty, not specifically that treaty or only that one.

      I’m kinda curious how all those italicized conditional terms and the “like” in there didn’t indicate the idea. There certainly wasn’t anything anywhere in it saying that Iran our Israel were members of NATO. So it’s confusing as hell how you got that as what I was saying