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

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[–] cmeio@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] cmeio@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry,I just understood it different and wanted to clarify. I didn't mean to contradict you!

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

No worries, thank you for responding so quickly :)