[goldstategop]

NATO is a joke. Europe has no significant military assets to speak of. Only we do and expanding NATO would not change the fact the alliance isn't a military organization. The kindest thing we could do is dissolve it and leave the Europeans to fend for themselves. Europe will never stand up to Russia unless America stops taking on all the water for them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[hellbender]

The whole point of NATO was to be a military alliance capable of preventing further Soviet expansion. If it is no longer a military organization, why have it, let alone expand it? NATO states are supposedly obligated to defend any member against attack. (In fact, that’s the reason a few Euro countries sent token forces to support us in Afghanistan and Iraq.) If we let countries like Ukraine in, we damn well see that they and we have the hardware, the will, and the strategy to win if they are attacked.