[frank ballenger]

NATO is weak and useless. It seems to be falling apart.

I wonder if disrupting and splitting up NATO over Ukraine was part of Putin's master plan or just an unintended consequence.

Funny how the US used to have all sorts of plans all over the world and now has to watch from the porch as the big dogs run.

[laplata]

“I wonder if disrupting and splitting up NATO over Ukraine was part of Putin’s master plan or just an unintended consequence”.

That crossed my mind, too. It’s as if Putin in out-foxing them.

“Funny how the US used to have all sorts of plans all over the world and now has to watch from the porch as the big dogs run”.

Yes, we had contingency plans for everything and at one time we were supposed to be able to fight two major wars at once.

Now we are really a “Paper tiger”, as the Chinese called us.