NATO at the Crossroads

Substack ^ | 7/19/24 | Big Serge

[EnderWiggin1970]

“The 80’s called, they want their foreign policy back.”

At the time, it was a stone cold zinger - a nice line that was typical of the celebrated personal political skills and folksy ease of President Barack Obama, and a slick little soundbite on the road to his clinical defeat of Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. With the passage of time, however, it has entered into the dubious ranks of history’s famous last words.

When Romney argued in that debate that Russia was the chief geopolitical rival to the United States, it was easy for Obama to dismiss him, and for the country to laugh it off. At the time, America was riding the high of its great victory over the Soviet Union, Russia was crouched in a passive stance, and it seemed that the only security challenges that now remained were bush wars in the Middle East. But in 2024, who in the American political and foreign policy establishment would doubt Senator Romney’s total validation?

Since 2012, NATO has experienced a revival and a return to relevance that would make any washed up 80’s movie star turn green with envy. After languishing for years, where the only real mention of NATO in American politics were the token admonitions for European members to increase their defense spending, NATO is once again at the center of global (and domestic American) politics. ...

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: containment; hahasubstack; nato; russia; ussr

[EnderWiggin1970]

Good reading for folks of all perspectives to digest. (If I ever start paying for access to a blog, this guy is top of my list.)

[TheDon]

Well past time for the US to exit NATO. Europe can defend themselves now. WWII and the Soviet Union are long gone.

[DesertRhino]

Good article.

[delta7]

President Putin’s remarks in his last speech just about sums up this war.

….about Krinky ( a major Ukie defensive city), ….. ‘why try to push them out when they mindlessly send more personnel there”.

Until the Western geniuses figure out Vlad doesn’t fight like they do, they have no chance of Victory.

[Jumper]

NATO has one major policy in effect, to strategically defeat and divid into different countries, Mother Russia.

The announcement and placement of new intermediate range offensive missiles into Germany, Poland, Romania, and elesewhere will result in Russia putting their own intermediate missiles pointed at Europe. These weapons have not been a problem since 1984 or so. We are moving closer to midnight.

Russia will be foreced to respond to the NATO policy of working towards a strategic defeat of Russia with a first strike long before NATO gets sufficient intermediate range missiles deployed.

I believe the Russian’s are kicking around the ideas of wiping out those missiles and one city in Poland in a first strike.

This NATO policy to seek the strategic defeat of Russia is an aggressive poorly thought out gambit.