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Congress should end the war in Ukraine by withdrawing from NATO
The Hill ^ | 11/25/2022 | BRUCE FEIN

Posted on 11/25/2022 12:08:52 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Congress can end the war in Ukraine and win a Nobel Peace Prize by enacting a statute withdrawing the United States from NATO — transforming it from a mighty offensive oak into a tiny acorn unalarming to Russia.

As early as 1798, Congress nullified a defense treaty with France by statute. A congressional end to United States participation in NATO would be no constitutional novelty.

At the very latest, NATO became obsolete in 1991 when its raison d’etre — the Soviet Empire — dissolved. By remaining in NATO and spearheading its expansion to Russia’s borders with 30 members, the United States provoked President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. It was poised to join NATO to fortify the encirclement of an already diminished Russia constituting a greater existential threat to it than the existential threat the Cuban missile crisis posed to the United States.

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Just get rid of NATO instead.
1 posted on 11/25/2022 12:08:52 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just stop funding it. American taxpayers have been pick up the 2% per member since NATOs creation, and even when Trump embarrassed them face-to-face, they haven’t budged.


2 posted on 11/25/2022 12:12:08 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Naive statement, at best.

3 posted on 11/25/2022 12:12:56 PM PST by econjack
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah right it’s all the fault of the US


4 posted on 11/25/2022 12:12:58 PM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: econjack
Opps

By withdrawing from NATO, Congress would end the existential threat that occasioned Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...

Naive statement, at best.

5 posted on 11/25/2022 12:14:44 PM PST by econjack
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George Washington said we should avoid foreign entanglements and I think he was more a statesman than any of our current politicians.


6 posted on 11/25/2022 12:15:30 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Star with the UN first. Then we can talk about it.


7 posted on 11/25/2022 12:16:13 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Lets leave the UN first.

That's the larger long term threat.

8 posted on 11/25/2022 12:16:51 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: ChicagoConservative27
PEACE IN OUR TIME!!!

Neville thanks you.

9 posted on 11/25/2022 12:17:02 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The US and Turkey don’t belong in NATO.


10 posted on 11/25/2022 12:17:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://mises.org/library/living-reality-military-economic-fascism


11 posted on 11/25/2022 12:17:36 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: G Larry

How about a 2 for 1 special?


12 posted on 11/25/2022 12:18:55 PM PST by EEGator
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To: datura

You are a shallow thinker Datura. Let me throw some history back at you. The humiliation of the Germans after WW I with the punishing Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of communism and th National Socialist AKA the Nazis.


13 posted on 11/25/2022 12:20:31 PM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.c)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...enacting a statute withdrawing the United States from NATO”


I believe the President would have to sign such a statute, unless Congress had the votes to override his veto. Does Bruce Fein think such votes are there?


14 posted on 11/25/2022 12:24:43 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And toss in(out) the u.n. while emptying the internal waste build up. 💩🚽


15 posted on 11/25/2022 12:26:39 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: JonPreston
Just stop funding it. American taxpayers have been pick up the 2% per member since NATOs creation, and even when Trump embarrassed them face-to-face, they haven’t budged.

Don't blame Europeans for not wanting to fund NATO.

America funds NATO because America controls it. NATO is an arm of the Pentagon. A way for Neocons to "project American power" into Europe.

Yes, NATO should be shut down. Should have been shut down 30 years ago. Damn Neocons.

16 posted on 11/25/2022 12:30:51 PM PST by Angelino97
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At the very latest, NATO became obsolete in 1991 when its raison d’etre — the Soviet Empire — dissolved.

Nevermind the fact that Comrade Putin's stated goal is to REBUILD the Soviet Union.

17 posted on 11/25/2022 12:32:05 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: WMarshal
The humiliation of the Germans after WW I with the punishing Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of communism and th National Socialist AKA the Nazis.

Much like the humiliation of Russia after 1991 (and its financial rape by Western-backed oligarchs) led to a hardened Russian nationalism.

18 posted on 11/25/2022 12:33:11 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is zero need for the US to be in NATO. Europe can defend itself and pay for its defense. I don’t give two craps about Democrat Socialists of Europe. The leftists want to follow Europe’s lead on every leftist idea. That diverts our treasure from making America great. America needs to focus on itself. That includes domestic and foreign policy, backed up by a capable military. Right now the threat comes from the southern border and China. Right now we are nearly bankrupt, focused on everything woke and our military is not prepared. They can’t even recruit adequate numbers to be prepared for combat.


19 posted on 11/25/2022 12:33:21 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: escapefromboston
George Washington said we should avoid foreign entanglements and I think he was more a statesman than any of our current politicians.

Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union didn't exist in the 1790s.

20 posted on 11/25/2022 12:34:12 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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