Posted on 03/02/2025 4:50:23 PM PST by Mariner
Nato could be in its final days, a former Supreme Allied Commander has warned, as America’s commitment to the transatlantic alliance wavers.
Admiral James Stavridis, an American who served as Nato’s Europe commander from 2009-2013, said we could be witnessing the “last days” of the alliance and the start of a new “European Treaty Organisation”.
Donald Trump’s insistence on European leaders increasing their defence budgets, combined with his falling out with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, has sparked concern among members of the alliance.
“We could be looking at the last days of Nato,” Admiral Stavridis told CNN. “This is a gut issue about who are you going to support? A democracy that’s under attack, or are you going to support a dictator in Moscow?
“This is going to drive a wedge deep into the heart of the alliance and it’s going to bleed over beyond Ukraine – as to whether the United States can be trusted as a partner.
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Where? Certainly not in Ukraine.
I don’t know if that’s good.
NATO should be a defense force and not used for political and economic gain. But completely disassembling it isn’t good either.
Your mouth to His ear.
“A democracy that’s under attack”
The ZMan hasn’t won an election since his term ended.
Plus he is all about European total lack of free speech.
Yuke is an oligarchy trying to stay in charge of some plot of territory without giving up all of their ca$h.
Do you want your sons (and daughters) fighting to defend to Caliphate?
So they can’t trust the US as a partner? Apparently, the US is the only nation paying the dues!
Yes..
YESssssss...
NATO doesn’t need to be dismantled. The U.S. also doesn’t need to a part of it. Let the Europeans run and fund it if they want.
Praise God!
I was just about to type that.
Good. About 30 years late though.
Don’t tease me. Make it so.
Why should we be in a pact with a group that jails people who speak out against their government. If they don’t have free speech, they are not free.
““We could be looking at the last days of Nato,” Admiral Stavridis told CNN. “This is a gut issue about who are you going to support? A democracy that’s under attack, or are you going to support a dictator in Moscow?”
What democracy? You mean thugocracy? And sense when is calling for peace a bad thing?
With this much confusion about our role and what is happening, perhaps it’s time to break with NATO and reposition ourselves in our own hemisphere. China is awfully interested in South America and our back door.
Euroweenies only whine and yammer anyway.
Nah.
Germany and England are coming around.
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There just @ 4 years behind us.
Drama.
This guy seems to think that it is the purpose of NATO to defend any democracy on earth which is attacked. Not a member of NATO? No problem! NATO will still jump right in!!!! Our failure to jump into non-member wars would be -- obviously -- a sign that we support the dictator in Moscow! We can't have that perception! So it looks like WWIII is on!!
Z would really be screwed then…all dressed up and nothing to join.
The public school system has dumbed down I don’t know how many generations at least three or four.
There are lot of folk under the age of thirty-five who have no clue what NATO stands for nor do they have much of an understanding of European geography.
You can in great part thank the Democrats for that.
Now the Democrats are expecting this under thirty-five crowd to rally around some country that is strangely called The Ukraine as if there are imposters going around without “The” in front of it.
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