An open discussion of NATO would leave most Americans scratching their heads.
We signed a treaty with Europe to jointly protect ourselves from the evil Soviet Union. The Soviet Union no longer exists, but the US is still paying the entirety of the cost for NATO to protect us from a non-existent threat.
Then to top it all off, two of the biggest threats from the former Soviet Union are fighting each other and we are completely funding one of the former Soviet states in that war.
Try explaining that to someone born after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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“Try explaining that to someone born after the fall of the Soviet Union.”
The fact that the Soviet Union supplied weapons to the North Vietnamese still angers people in the Pentagon and Congress. These people are taking out their anger on the Russians.
I read the entire article and I think you must have also. From the article:
“It is much easier to blacken a candidate with sexual allegations than with a campaign based on the issues. However, experts agree that a Nazi salute beats a sexual allegation hands down.”
So basically, they want to talk about anything but the issues. The author says the issue is NATO.
“All the Democrats and three RINO senators voted against Pete Hegseth because of NATO. And it’s much easier to concoct sexual allegations than have an open debate about the relevance of NATO in the 21st century.
No president has had the cojones to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we don’t need no stinkin’ NATO. Even Donald Trump has skated on the issue.
Until he appointed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.”
How much money do we spend on NATO? I’m sure that it’s a lot. It’s a lot to give up.
The Warsaw Pact is no more. The Soviet Union is no more. I think it’s time say we (Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Pole II, Lech Walesa) won. All I am saying is give peace a chance.
O.k. I’ll say some more. Putin is Christian and must see the threat posed by Islam. Putin and Russia could be natural allies of the United States. I think Putin sees more clearly than most Americans that Western civilization is on the brink. I would rather see a united Christendom that a fortress America. Israel must also be part of the alliance for many reasons, including moral and theological.