[Basket_of_Deplorables]

It is a very, very good speech. And he makes good sense.

NATO has taken on a life of its own. It’s a giant war machine, itching to launch Lockheed’s newest weapons at the bad guy of the week. Funded and supplied largely by the US.

US Senators and Congressmen get to go on paid junkets, wearing flak vests and eating caviar, and play Eleventy Star Generals, anf take campaign photo op pictures and collect another vig from Raytheon.

Like any giant bureaucracy, it wants to expand itself, find new justifications for its existence when the old reasons die out. Self-perpetuating.

NATO did break promises, bomb countries indiscriminately, mess up Belgrade, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya...on and on. Trillions in weapons fired, and replaced, on the US’s dime.

NATO should be disbanded, or at least the US needs to withdraw.

Period.

[farming pharmer]

It is a very, very good speech. And he makes good sense.

NATO has taken on a life of its own. It’s a giant war machine, itching to launch Lockheed’s newest weapons at the bad guy of the week. Funded and supplied largely by the US.

US Senators and Congressmen get to go on paid junkets, wearing flak vests and eating caviar, and play Eleventy Star Generals, anf take campaign photo op pictures and collect another vig from Raytheon.

Like any giant bureaucracy, it wants to expand itself, find new justifications for its existence when the old reasons die out. Self-perpetuating.

NATO did break promises, bomb countries indiscriminately, mess up Belgrade, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya...on and on. Trillions in weapons fired, and replaced, on the US’s dime.

NATO should be disbanded, or at least the US needs to withdraw.

Period.

I cannot disagree with you on any point you make.

What has changed (in America IMHO) is the is the amount of propaganda disseminated by the state controlled media and censored by the state controlled tech industry.

And no, my children are not cannon fodder for the next NATO war.

[Who is John Galt?]

...or at least the US needs to withdraw.
Period.

Kind of a 'Brexit' for the US, with a lot of potential benefits, and reasonably limited risks...

;>)