A couple of problems with that statement. NATO isn’t paying for it, we are. NATO isn’t providing billions in military aid for the privilege of building the missile bases, we are. It provides no protection to the U.S., only Europe. So once again people are advocating we take steps without Europe’s support and spend billions of dollars defending countries so that they don’t have to. Yeah, makes perfect sense to me.
The key thing right now is maintaining the threat of NATO deterrence. It’s better to pay for that radar than to have to decide what to do in the future when Putin rolls tanks into some place like Estonia and they invoke article 5. Doing less than nothing right now just encourages Putin to start rolling tanks through NATO countries.
Have you looked at the size of NATOs military lately? That ship sailed long ago.
It’s better to pay for that radar than to have to decide what to do in the future when Putin rolls tanks into some place like Estonia and they invoke article 5.
A radar system that provides no protection for the U.S. is going to keep Putin from rolling the tanks on Estonia? So what if he did? Who is going to stop him? Germany? France? Denmark?
Doing less than nothing right now just encourages Putin to start rolling tanks through NATO countries.
If the NATO countries are not willing to fund their own defense then why should we do it for them?