Police say they've arrested 3 people after an anti-NATO protest that included two car fires and left some businesses with smashed windows.

Anti-NATO protesters gathered again in Montreal on Saturday to demand Canada withdraw from the alliance, a day after a demonstration organized by different groups resulted in arrests, burned cars and shattered windows.

the purpose of the protest was to demonstrate against what he called NATO’s “complicity with Israel’s military while it’s conducting its genocide in Gaza, … war crimes in Lebanon, Syria” and that “it’s enforcing illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.”

However, Allard rejected accusations of antisemitism. He said the protests were against the actions of the state of Israel and not Jewish people, adding that earlier this week the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      It’s not a benevolent alliance between partners, it’s a vassal-overlord relationship,

      Why do I only hear that kind of thing from Americans with their penchant for exceptionalism, or vatniks.

      You could see just how much control the US has over NATO by the amount of states telling them to pound sand when it came to Vietnam, when it came to Iraq.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          24 days ago

          NATO went in by request of the Iraqi government, to train their army and police. In 2004. The coalition of the willing invaded 2003. You’re on the wrong wikipedia page.

          What certainly can’t be denied is that many countries who did participate did so to crawl up the US’s arse. But that doesn’t mean that the US is controlling them, it means that the US has a comfortable asshole.

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Do not forget who empowered the russian fascists or the talibans in the first place.

      Reagan, and the Pakistani ISI, respectively.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      Well that’s a constructive answer, and not even a good one. Maybe spend a little less time in your echo chambers and look at all factors of conflicts instead of US bad… rest is irrelevant.

        • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          24 days ago

          I think you are a troll…and a badly mannered one at that. Arguing against pax americana just means you have not been paying attention the last 50 years.

          I’d nuance all this… with it could have been better, the 1st world did a lot of nasty things and and and… but under a USSR victory… everyone would have been way more fucked… just look at the hellholes that modeled after the USSR and evolved from there… but yea… all the US’s fault amirite?