[Viennacon]

To this day it baffles me that Turkey ever for in

[McGruff]

I think they jumped the shark somewhere around Libya.

[tcrlaf]

In the 70’s, and into the 80’s, NATO was a Military Organization that could counter any conceivable threat.

When Clinton’s “Peace Dividend!” came around in the early 90’s, it became a political org, not a military one. Euro countries downsized their militaries beyond all common sense, because they believed the liberal BS that there would never be another threat again, and wouldn’t the money be better spent giving voters FREE STUUFF!

Now, “NATO” exists pretty much in name only, with the only real military organization belonging to the U.S.

[mojito]

Things are going to get real interesting with NATO when ISIS attacks Turkey, maybe not in the immediate future, but it’s coming.

[Uncle Miltie]

When Russia retakes the Baltics, Nato will die.

[Red Badger]

“So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.” ....................

[Joe Brower]

NATO end with a whimper?

Looks like it already has.

[henkster]

Ismay’s comment was repeated by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and not so approvingly, either. But given the option of having the Russians in, Kohl wasn’t going to throw the Americans out.

[Iron Munro]

Without US muscle and money NATO barely qualifies as a Paper Tiger let alone as an effective military force.

[MaxMax]

Without America there is no NATO. It's a concept that should have ended in the 70's.
Now it has become a shakedown of US treasure and has been infiltrated by every despot
on the planet who hate America. I see no reason to support those who want us dead.

Rome paid for peace and it killed them. We have a responsibility to ourselves first.

[Verginius Rufus]

Fourth war in less than a century?

Actually sixth, if you count the Danish War of 1864 and the Seven Weeks' War of 1866, both caused by Prussian aggressiveness. Germany post-1871 was just an enlarged Prussia.

[CincyRichieRich]

What NATO?