Posted on 01/18/2019 10:15:01 AM PST by Kaslin
Get out!! It has no purpose but global governing of your life. Russia has 145,000,000 population. We have 345,000,000 We need them as ally against China. Socialist loved communist Russia— now they use Russia as a bogus boogie man against Trump ( but fail) . Get out of NATO!
Since Kosovo, NATO has been doing the Saudis’ bidding.
NATO should have declared victory, and disbanded when the Soviet Union fell 27 years ago.
Its become another permanent bureaucracy and deep state power-control tool. By backstopping their defense, the USA is also subsidizing European leftist, multi-cult and social-engineering schemes.
The Soviet threat was secondary.
Rethink NATO?
We should give notice that we’re out, no matter what, in 10 years.
When NATO expanded to countries like Romania and Bulgaria it lost me and most thinking people. When there were allusions to bringing in Georgia and Ukraine they should have lost all Americans.
Sheer insanity.
Yeah, lets have a nuclear war because Russia reclaims Ukraine and/or Georgia./s
Why did we bomb Christians on Easter in Kosovo to implant illegal alien moslems from Albania in Kosovo? Any clue?m What were we doing there?
We basically allowed France to keep their Indochina colonies in exchange for them joining NATO.
Big mistake on multiple fronts.
NATO is a subsidiary of what Eisenhower called the “Military Industrial Complex” to keep conflicts going worldwide and to insure the profit margin on the war manufacturing machinery.
Cool. What does that mean?
We don’t need to think anymore. It’s time to leave. It sucks our wealth & is not needed.
“At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO”
I’ll get back to you next year.
The U.S. didn’t join NATO to protect Europe from the Soviets. We joined NATO to protect Europe from Germany.
Hello, friend.
OMG! I’m older than NATO!
“10 years”
The commitment needs to be made and completed within Trump’s Presidency. To wait 10 years would give the swamp a chance to start a war just to prove NATO is needed.
The European countries weak on defense because we are doing it for them need to just pretend there is a war on the horizon and build their armed forces up accordingly as quickly as they can. There’s no reason they cannot do this.
I’d say give them a years notice of the pullout start, with completion at the end of the second year.
We should have withdrawn when the Cold War ended in 1991. NATO is the Anglo-Saxons + the Poles and a whole bunch of useless leaches - the Germans foremost amongst them.
We know we cannot count on them. The threat the alliance was intended to stop no longer exists. Withdraw. Bring the Boys Home.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1949 Federal Republic of Germany is established
The Federal Republic of Germany (popularly known as West Germany) is formally established as a separate and independent nation. This action marked the effective end to any discussion of reuniting East and West Germany.
In the period after World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones, with the British, French, Americans, and Soviets each controlling one zone. The city of Berlin was also divided in a like fashion. This arrangement was supposed to be temporary, but as Cold War animosities began to harden, it became increasingly evident that the division between the communist and non-communist controlled sections of Germany and Berlin would become permanent. In May 1946, the United States halted reparation payments from West Germany to the Soviet Union. In December, the United States and Great Britain combined their occupation zones into what came to be known as Bizonia. France agreed to become part of this arrangement, and in May 1949, the three zones became one.
On May 23, the West German Parliamentary Council met and formally declared the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany. Although Konrad Adenauer, the president of the council and future president of West Germany, proudly proclaimed, “Today a new Germany arises,” the occasion was not a festive one. Many of the German representatives at the meeting were subdued, for they had harbored the faint hope that Germany might be reunified. Two communist members of the council refused to sign the proclamation establishing the new state.
The Soviets reacted quickly to the action in West Germany. In October 1949, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was officially announced. These actions in 1949 marked the end of any talk of a reunified Germany. For the next 41 years, East and West Germany served as symbols of the divided world, and of the Cold War animosities between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1990, with Soviet strength ebbing and the Communist Party in East Germany steadily losing its grip on power, East and West Germany were finally reunited as one nation.
Please keep us Canadians in. :) But demand our government actually fund the military like it matters to them.
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