Posted on 12/29/2023 7:06:30 AM PST by JonPreston
As NATO prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary next year, the bloc’s original architects would have been stunned by its broad membership and growing agenda today. In helping design the new alliance for the purpose of containing the Soviet Union in Europe after World War II, the U.S. diplomat George Kennan argued that NATO should take its name literally and include only North Atlantic countries—excluding Mediterranean states such as Greece, Italy, and Turkey. His rationale was that only countries on the Atlantic seaboard could be effectively supplied by ship in the event of war with the Soviets, whereas including others would remove all limits to the bloc’s commitments and be unworkable. To ensure that Article 5 of its founding treaty—the collective defense clause—was ironclad, NATO kept a laser-sharp focus on military preparedness for much of its history.
Today, NATO has 31 members (though when Sweden joins, it will be 32) and more than 30 partner countries across the world. Its agenda has expanded to issues beyond territorial defense, such as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Last year, the bloc established the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, a 1-billion-euro (about $1.1-billion) fund for emerging and disruptive technologies.
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America has metastasized into something the Founders warned us against.
Basically, NATO’s purpose is to give political cover to the predations of the U.S. empire whenever the United Nations isn’t up to the job.
At one point post 9/11, Russia was one of those partner nations.
yes, with the US taxpayers picking up the tab for these global ambitions.
Probably a good time to just get rid of it
yep
Do you mean the U.S. Empire doing the predation, or other nations predating the U.S. empire?
Interesting comment either way.
NATO: the military arm of the one-world socialist, LGBT, and climate fearmongering agenda.
Change the name to reflect reality—its the American Empire. Reminds me of Athens and the League they formed in ancient times. NATO is US—We pay for it. Democracy doesn’t do well as an Empire.
Cool - our kids are BORN with the enemies off all these nations and others, like Ukraine and Israel, because of the yellow eyed globaloids taking this country to hell - bankrupting us militarily and financially.
The pieces of $*** who made all these enemies (including the mystery meat and eurotrash here on FR) will all be dead... yet our kids still get to inherit THEIR enemies.
Or why they suck as humans and need to burn in hell.
NATO, like the UN needs to be disbanded period.
100%, with the people defending the current NATO structure part of the scheme.
All I’ve ever seen or heard of nato doing is bombing innocent people, usually for the sake of connected barbarians or some faux victim group. In the case of Libya, the victim group in question was the Rothchildes...
absolutely true.
One must not forget its other dreams....
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Can NATO Supercharge Military Greening? RAND Corporation, 1 December 2023
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2022 - NATO AND THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION - REPORT NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 7 December 2022
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Why is NATO expanding its reach to the Asia-Pacific region? Conversation, 10 July 2023
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Relations with partners in the Indo-Pacific region NATO, 17 August 2023
NATO - News: "NATO's strength is its diversity" NATO, 17 May 2023
yes
Yes, you hate America. We know this.
The new world cutesy lamb
With old world horns - gnashing teeth
Rev 13
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