• TarkovSurvivor
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    1 year ago

    Not really, the government of Afghanistan didn’t attack the USA, that was bin Laden and the Afghans offered to hand him over via a third party nation, he was eventually found (according to their own account) in Pakistan and not Afghanistan. And that’s not even getting into the weeds of how the cia financed at least two of the highjackers, norad failed to intercept planed that deviated from their flight paths or the project for a new amerikkkan century.

    • chocoraisinboi
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      1 year ago

      oh, most definitely, but G.W. Bush did trigger article 5 and there were meetings about it. They even concluded that indeed a foreign enemy had attacked sovereign soil of the U.S.

      Straight from the horse’s mouth: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm

      Whether that was torturing reality for the sake of empire building or not well that’s a separate Q