In their own words
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
I personally felt that the USA “guaranteeing the security” of places like Montenegro was a joke and excuse for fraud, and the baltics a meaningless and empty provocation to Russia.
NATO should have ended in 1991 and been replaced with bilateral agreements with the UK and Germany only.
The underlying premise to the continuation of this state of affairs is that it is in the interest of the American citizens tasked to pay for it. That premise is, by now, close to indefensible, which is why American politicians avoid it like the plague.
Exactly. Which is why I say get us out of NATO and the UN. Both are bent on undermining US sovereignty little by little.
Massie is fact-deficient as usual.
Allowing the EU to take control of NATO (Clinton did this) is what endangers US security.
The expansion wasn’t designed to improve US security.
Pax Americana is dead, and it ain’t coming back.
What has NATO ever done for the USA?
Sure it has. Instead of the limp-wristed Germans, Danes, Belgians, Italians, et al, we’ve got all those former East Bloc people, who hate the despotic Russians, on the front line. Hard to convince them that Russian intentions are benign.
NATO served its purpose during the Cold War.
Now it’s just another power-hungry, bloated, corrupt organization.
The only thing that can improve our security is isolationism.
Who cares about American security? The former US is just a NeoCon colony now.
Somebody should ask Massie what he thinks about the commie takeover of America and whether it is going to interfere with him being a “Constitutionalist” and all. We have political opponents being imprisoned and the government is shutting down free speech. What will this GOP generated “firebrand” do about it if anything?