Posted on 03/26/2024 9:33:30 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
The next summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is set for July of this year in Washington, D.C., following the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding on April 4. The organization’s leading lights will discuss “important issues” and “provide strategic direction” for NATO. The NATO website also explains to curious readers that the organization is devoted to an “understanding” and “awareness” of the “security environment.” Those of us who have grown skeptical of NATO and its intentions can only imagine what this press release verbiage might mean, as an organization established to counter the Soviet threat during the Cold War seems to take its existence and continued interventions for granted.
From where your humble observer stands, the NATO bureaucracy lost the reason for its existence in the early 1990s but carried on anyway, as bureaucracies are prone to do. Today, it seems clear what NATO’s real post-Cold War missions actually are: ensuring its continued existence and expansion and defending certain “democratic values”—that is, imposing what we now know as a “woke” agenda on everyone else. It plays its part in this effort, along with the European Union, the United States government Leviathan, specific international organizations, and globalist activists at the World Economic Forum, or what I like to call “the Davos Politburo.”
Anyone or anything that rejects the agenda of these globalists may be treated as a mortal threat by their military wing, NATO. Such “threats” reflect globalist aims that have nothing to do with what ordinary citizens of the West would comprehend as “national security.”
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Putin and Russia resolved that “obsolete” bit and they even managed to encourage Sweden and Finland to join NATO.
Switzerland and Austria have moved to integrate their military forces with NATO and both governments are having internal discussions about the idea of membership.
If NATO is obsolete, why did Finland and Sweden just join?
The author is entitled to his opinion, but in my opinion he is clearly wrong.
It’s obsolete, until it’s not.
You can’t prove a negative.
The absence of another world war in Europe in the last 70 years is not proof, but it’s strong evidence that NATO served it’s purpose.
There is no way to say what would have happened without it, and there is also no sure way to assume it will prevent war in the future, but all other things being equal, why would you want to find out?
I’d rather walk softly and carry a big stick, than to play lame duck and see if any foxes pounce.
In all sincerity, you should try actually reading the article.
The anti-NATO propaganda is starting already
Of course Russia doesn’t like NATO, it’s the only thing blocking Russia from taking over Europe!
Thus, we can expect to see more of this Russian propaganda leading up to the anniversary (April 9th)
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“In all sincerity, you should try actually reading the article.”
In all sincerity you shouldn’t post/amplify an article that starts out with an absurd premise.
“Some good reading and history here.”
Agreed - for the TLDR crowd, here’s your 4-word summary: Nature abhors a vacuum.
As regards the US component of NATO, the answer to why it continued after 1990 can be found in the number of general & senior field-grade officer positions held by US personnel. Taking away those billets means less opportunity to check a career development box for being part of a joint command, thus reducing promotion chances.
75 years of failure? Seems to me the NATO and UN solutions to conflict is to “divide in half”: North and South Vietname (a while ago), North and South Korea, East and West Germany, etc. This leaves both sides still PO’ed.
The future of every NATO country is suicide via low IQ non white immigration.
Our militaries are superior because we were merit based and mainly white.
Removing merit and Balkanization of our lands will destroy us.
Diversity is a weakness. Competency will plummet.
White men are already checking out.
Zeepers minds only work with thinking about Ukraine. Everything is about Ukraine.
NATO is now akin to the old Warsaw Pact - its not really about “defense” - its about political control and promoting ideology.
NATO was repurposed to become Team America World Police.
Now it’s just World Police State.
Oh, its already here. It should be amplified
Let's hope the hitman for Davos Globohomo and home of corrupt US democrats and the anti-constitutional deep-state (AKA NATO) soon dies of massive abdominal aortic aneurysm caused by trying to swallow and digest a poisonous Ukraine
If Russia entered the post-Soviet era deciding to (1) be a true democracy and (2) no longer needed to be an imperium like Czarist Russia or the Soviet Union and (3) no longer needed a “security” position against the west - in like manner of Japan after WWII - NATO might have lost its purpose. But none of those things happened.
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What a load of paranoid garbage
NATO’s not going away, because it’s still needed to counter the Russian menace
Prediction - you’re going to be very disappointed
NATO will officially become obsolete when it is dominated by nations with swarthy prime ministers from Third World dumps.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is nothing but a contract between nations.
The Europeans have repeatedly refused to live up to their contractual obligations.
Therefore, the contract is null and void.
Period.
End of discussion.
40 years ago, I read Chronicles for a few years. Until I discovered they were an odd group that felt Monarchies were an acceptable form of government.
The editor then was Thomas Fleming (there is another Thomas Fleming who is an author and is not like the editor)
In spite of their good grasp of history, I never looked back. They have their own agenda and they at times flirt with the Left.
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