It’s about time nato was abolished. Along with the UN.
C’mon.
You’re posting tripe from lil’Susie Benjawoman?
For real?
It has become obsolete! A PC and woke CF!
Trump demanded that Europe (and Germany especially) make a decision. Either you’re afraid of Russia, in which case you need to fund a serious military and avoid becoming dependent on them (and quit giving them billions per month)... or you’re not afraid of them, in which case why do we have to continue to fund NATO...?
You’re about to be called a Putin Puffer and worse.
I’m not sure why people demand we engage in a war with no good guys leading either side.
NATO has been a joke for a long time, largely because they are European schmucks that don’t pay their bills or fight.
NATO still has a place in 2022.
However, if you get too close to the claws of a bear, expect bad scratches, or worse.
NATO was slowly unraveling before February. Putin has reinvigorated NATO, and united Ukrainians. Pretty good.
NATO has been obsolete since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I will say this:
Not excusing what Putin has done, but it quite possibly didn’t have to be. Trump came into office hoping to win Russia over as a partner against Iran, against China, against the jihadis. I think Putin saw this, and there was some cooperation below the table.
But the constant Russia!! investigations, the constant accusations that he was a Russian agent made it impossible for Trump to do what he had hoped to do, and in fact drove Russia ever more firmly into its alliances with the bad actors.
Then of course you have the debacle in Afghanistan, which (I believe) signaled to Putin that now was the time to right what he sees as a historic wrong, that Biden and NATO would not interfere. Again, had Trump been in office, there would likely have been no debacle, Trump would have been much more clear where he stood on Ukraine, and NATO would have looked much less threatening with Trump at the head of it (as long as you stay inside your borders...)
Miscalculation on Putin’s part, and malevolent incompetence, and incompetent malevolence on the DNC/RNC establishment’s part.
NATO was heading for obsolescence.
Then Russia invaded Ukraine and threatened to annihilate the UK, Finland and Poland with Nukes.
I have no issue with us being in NATO, I just want those European countries to PAY US for the security we provide!
Otherwise.. yeah.. your on your own!
Repeating Hillary Clinton’s lie about Trump’s position on NATO is still a lie.
Trump’s #1 position was that our so-called allies needed to spend 2 percent of GDP on NATO, or else we’d reconsider how much we’re spend to protect them.
The Hillary Clinton lie is dissected below:
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/whats-trumps-position-on-nato/
It turns out that Germany only committed to 2% on a one-time basis when Russia invaded Ukraine. While that was good, that’s not good enough.
Now with Finland and Sweden in the alliance, with Ukraine having a special relationship, and with the Russian military revealed to mostly be fake, we could maybe rethink the 2% commitment.
I’d say 2% for the U.S., U.K. and France as they are permanent members of the UN Security Council; 2% for front-line countries, and 1.5% for other countries (e.g., Germany). (That would still be 0.5% more than they were spending.)
With our MASSIVE strength, there’s no purpose in feeding Putin’s paranoia. We’re not interesting in conquering Russia, and even if they surrendered to us, we’d reject them. If Russia wants to surrender to somebody, try Armenia.
According to pro-United Nations globalists.
The date doeant matter. What pat od North Atlantic do people not understand?
The author is the co-founder of Code Pink.
FreeRepublic seems attracted more and more to Leftists these days.
All I’ve ever seen nato do is bomb innocent people.