Posted on 03/08/2025 2:51:46 PM PST by ransomnote
NATO is the United States. These countries don’t help us
“But NATO without the US is far from impotent”
So what’s the problem then?
Perhaps you missed their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What?
No.
The US is NATO in reality.
Long term, internal squabbling and the French wanting NATO dead anyhow (competes with what they see as their power base) will end this organization unless we keep it alive...
Short term, yes. Long term, not a chance.
Who cares? Not our continent, not our concern.
They’ll miss our money.
NATO countries helped us in those two conflicts. Did you not know this?
Bingo.
Iraq and Afghanistan. NATO helped the US? What was it they helped us do, in particular?
NATO’s help to the US has always been just a show, it has not been logistically nor militarily significant. The help was a token of “solidarity.” Even the intelligence is so dependent on American assets that NATOs arm is effectively blind if the US pulls out.
NATO is the US, it is our money, our assets and our military.
Once the US pulls out the ill maintained, poorly trained and underfunded troops / assets will be an embarrassment to Europe.
That was a different Europe.
Europeans today throw paint on Van Goghs because Europeans won't stop driving cars. They've handed their entire energy policy over to a petulant teenage girl.
Are we to believe that Europe today is going to massively raise taxes while drastically cutting their social safety net programs and totally abandon their Net Zero climate agenda to start cranking tanks out of factories?
Europe could double their military production and they'd still be lagging far behind the United States in capabilities. And in order to even do this, they'd have to come together in unity and agree to basically do a complete 180 on their social and climate priorities.
The European nations are in a much better place politically and culturally than the United States is—it’s time for them to become the “leaders of the free world” for a while.
Who cares if NATO survives? Only the countries who haven’t paid their fair share all along.
seems like just yesterday that the Old World was asking the New World to come to their rescue.
Completely wrong question to ask. The correct question to ask is: What is wrong with an international alliance of governments whereby the withdrawal of any single government would undermine the stability of the entire alliance? If NATO is inherently so vulnerable then how the heck can it be expected to apply its forces when war theatre becomes REALLY critical?
As a social club it will be just fine.
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