I see a bunch of leaches who are too disinterested, cowardly and/or lazy to provide for their own defense freeloading on another member to do it for them just as it has been doing for over 70 years. I see members which claim to have security concerns moving to make themselves even more energy dependent on the very country they claim is their biggest security threat.
This does not look like a very balanced alliance to me. In fact, it looks like no alliance at all - just a sucker being taken advantage of.
Stop posting globalist propaganda.
NATO is just another cash proxy cow for our “allies” to milk.
There’s not a nation in Europe that can actually provide its own defense. There’s not a nation in Europe that can force project beyond its own borders in any real numbers or duration.
The entire EU together, with all it’s member nations pitching in everything they have *still* can’t put together a competent military force.
All that because they can parasite off us through NATO.
WE don’t need them. They provide no positive value and infact provide a serious negative in that they’ve all signed the additional protocols so force us into adhering to them whenever they join us in doing whatever or where ever.
That reminds me: The USA needs to impose a tariff on all of our NATO partners who fall short of their 2% GDP defense spending commitment to offset the amount that the US spends to defend them.
“Despite the differences we see between Nato allies on issues like trade, we see a Nato which is delivering on strengthening our collective defence and the biggest reinforcement to our collective defence since the end of the Cold War.”
Considering they have been dismantling their defense capabilities since the Cold War, a more accurate statement would be that they are engaged in the ONLY expansion since then.
And a damn feeble one at that. Most of the expansion is in Islamist Turkey.
Germany continues to reduce forces while increasing spending (Social Welfare program in the guise of Defense) and NONE is above the required 2%.
And most of us Americans are tired of carrying their load.
The US should abrogate the NATO treaty. Make the lazy, cowardly bastards fend for themselves.