Maybe because those other weak-ass Euroweenie “allies” of ours wont do jack squat when it comes to a real war and just leave it to us to the heavy lifting as usual.
We never, ever, had a cold war “with Russia.”
We had a cold war with the various totalitarian (and mostly global socialist) regimes seeking world domination with the loss of our freedoms being at stake.
Russia and the old Soviet block States were players. But so were China and North Korea and Cuba and Cambodia (under Pop Pot) and many other countries large and small.
There was a time when NATO had spokesmen who at least vaguely knew the history of the twentieth century. Clearly that is no longer the case.
Without a new Cold War NATO has no reason for existing.
Many people argue the Cold War was in reality a fake war and used and used to sell weapon systems and create a dialectic the people in power use to maintain control.
Here is a fascinating speech by Maj Racey Jordan in charge of the Lend-Lease Act of WW2 where we supplied Russia with defensive weapons. In reality we gave them MUCH more. Unlimited secret patents, uranium, vodka, 32,000 bombers, etc. From 1963 a speech on his book ‘Major Jordan’s Diary’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG0bViDVmTE&t=2535s
Astonishing, nato moves right up to Russias border. Russia begins having exercises inside their own nation across from where nato has deployed.
And that’s a “Russian build up on natos border”
Astonishing arrogance
Tell our so-call NATO ally, Turkey, to return the dozen Americans it is holding hostage.
NATO is obsolete. We should leave it.