Posted on 03/20/2022 4:50:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Barr says Trump can’t sustain a dependable relationship with those around him and the only ones who stay are the ones dependent on him, and he’s not one of them.
NATO is an anachronistic organization, a relic of the Cold War. It should have been abolished after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Worked at a facility adjacent to the Brussels NATO headquarters . Several employees we hired were former NATO mid level supervisors/mangers. They all echoed your sentiment back in the late 1990’s
I was assigned to AFSOUTH Naples 1968-70. At that time we had 500,000 US forces in Europe excluding dependents. There was a real, legitimate fear that the Soviets posed a threat to the continent.
The collapse of the Soviet Union coupled with the rising affluence of Europe, including a united Germany, has changed the calculus of a Russian threat. Russia doesn’t have a conventional military capable of invading and occupying Europe. Russia has nuclear weapons, but their use would assure Russia’s destruction.
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