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Originally Posted by fluffy0000
Ever since the toppling of the Taliban in 2001, the Afghan fight has been seen as a test case for the sixty-year-old NATO alliance. Few would argue NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has passed the test. American troops joke that ISAF stands for "I Saw Americans Fight" (USNews).
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Thats because the Americans are stupid and trying to call on NATO for what it isnt designed to be.
NATO was effective in the cold war as a deterrent to Soviet hard power and probably still is a deterrent to the new Russia.
A South East Asian version of NATO would be a deterrent to Chinese and American hard power but not something that could be envoked if say Thailand wanted to start a war with Chile.