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To: Tailgunner Joe
"Who is going to eclipse NATO as the world’s greatest military power? "

All that capability and zero will.

The European members wander about and piss themselves upon the first sniff of danger.

The exceptions being Britain and Poland.

ALL members of NATO are downsizing while Russia and China are building.

Absent leadership in DC, we have a decade before we're outgunned and outnumbered.

It's likely Europe and NATO are lost though. They would not even fight for their own nations.

12 posted on 11/15/2014 2:33:20 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
So what you're saying is that NATO will remain the world's greatest superpower, but you don't believe they will use that power.

I think that view is naive. NATO has in fact used its power repeatedly and has destroyed regimes all over the world, in continent after continent after continent, in Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya. In fact NATO’s taste for intervention seems to only grow, while the whole time voices such as yours continue to proclaim their impending demise. That's wishful thinking on your part.

On the other hand whom has China projected military power against? Has Russia successfully intervened anywhere in the world? Putin's intervention in Ukraine has failed to topple the Poroshenko regime despite all of Ukraine's glaring problems.

NATO is so powerful that we can topple regimes all around the world without even exerting ourselves. Russia and China continues to pour money into their armed forces, but what do they have to show for it? They seem to be unable to achieve any military goals at all.

15 posted on 11/15/2014 2:51:19 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Mariner

The US should leave NATO to the Europeans and let them defend themselves.

Lets see how well socialist Europe does without Uncle Sugar paying the bills.


17 posted on 11/15/2014 3:12:22 PM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aide)
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