Then NATO.
DeGaulle of him...
Your response is perfect
Hi, Europe, I want you all to pay more, so I’m going to say I’m leaving NATO. But I don’t really mean it.
Now pay up or I’m out of here!
If Europe is going to allow themselves to be invaded by Islamic terrorists, then we are fools to be over there without a whip hand. And if they don’t agree to it we should get out and let their suicide complete itself, and then negotiate - or destroy - the resulting Caliphate.
But it’s time to call a spade a spade. Germany and the UK are all but gone already.
Is Turkey still in NATO?
It is?
Then why are we?
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) discovered the power of the bipartisan pro-NATO lobby in the 1970s when he merely sought to reduce the number of U.S. troops stationed in Europe.
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Huumm? 1970s Nixon, Ford, Carter were the Presidents.
Ted, remind me again how this lobbying thing works. Oh yes! They give you money to run for office and expect you to do things for them when you get there. Well, the only people who have given Donald J. Trump money are a million or so of us little folk, and this is what we want him to do! Maybe it will be different this time. :-)
NATO’s mission ended 25 years ago.
Now its just a bodyguard for the ongoing progressive-left social-engineering and destruction of Europe.
NATO should have been disbanded the day after the CCCP collapsed.
I remember Rush saying long ago that the US paid for the defenses of the European nations that they spent all their time moving left. Let Germany, etal pay for their own defense against Russia.
Excellent commentary. I agree 100% with Cato Institute. Probably the most severe example of Europe’s inability is when they could not or would not resolve Bosnia/Serbia on their own and that directly impacted their vital national interest in their own backyard.They hounded the US which had no national security interest in the issue to come over there and resolve it for them with our air power and diplomacy.
I came to the conclusion, living in the UK some years ago, that we should leave NATO. The socialists I was around did nothing but bitch and moan about the US the entire time I was there. Including the blatant anti-American bias from the BBC.
I’m seriously beyond giving a $hit about our ‘perceived allies’. The only people who seemed to care were those who remembered WW2. Even that was done mockingly of ‘our boys’ and how ‘brash and uncouth’ they were. Also that our soldiers got better rations than theirs, blah, blah. NOT OUR FAULT! Enough.
Europe committed suicide, American being in NATO can’t help them.
Exactly my thought.
The Russians have a point - the Soviet Union no longer exists and the Warsaw Pact is history.
NATO is an organization in search of a mission. The ideology of blocs was rendered obsolete with the end of the Cold War.
If Europe has no interest in confronting Russia, its none of our business to tell it what its interests are.
By the same measure, Europe has no right to demand we do for it what it should be capable of doing for itself.
Sometimes hypotheticals can start you thinking: what if all of Europe elected socialists; would we still defend them in NATO? Neocon Answer: yes.
Conclusion: We are not there to promote freedom.
I don’t believe it is in our best interest to see Europe fall to anyone.
Remaining in NATO with tweaks is recommended.
Let them pay more for the defense we provide.
Re-evaluate what nations are in it. If Turkey wants to play hard-line, let it go.
We should not become isolationist.
We do need to have a working relationship with Europe to discourage adventurism there.
We need to get our military up to speed and project around the globe.
We need to have our NAVY on every high sea, and our carriers and subs on station.
First Leave the UN.
Then Send the UN to some Third World Hellhole.
Then burn down the UN building and purify the land.
Then Get Out Of NATO.
The real problem is Europe’s unnatural and unhealthy continued security dependence on the United States. <<<
Welfare Mentality.
Users. Why spend your own buck if you can scam someone else’s.
NATO left us.