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NATO doesn't do that. The US can do that alone, and sometimes brings the UK with it, which might look similar but is really different in important ways.

Outside of the Iraq 2003 stupidity, has the US done this kind of thing in the past 20 years?

I'd hope the times of the US trying to turn regular countries into banana republics are over.

More Europe dragged the US/NATO into Libya and Syria.

Libya you could argue for, but Syria??? Syria was an offshoot of... wait for it... Iraq. Guess who started that.

Merkel, Erdogan and KSA wanted it and expected their battle hymn of "Onward Christian Soldiers" to carry the day. Thanks not, Obama. She ran away from any personal nation building but at least didn't run away from picking up the mess she helped create.

What's this madness?

That's just silly. Look at NATO operations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations

Only Afghanistan and Libya can be argued to have been some sort of cover for resource extraction... and both operations have ended. Plus the Libyan intervention was very short.

How do you explain the continued presence of US military inside Syria?

Same way I'd explain the Russian, Iranian, Turkish ones.

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