“The United States of America should not be paying to defend other countries.”
NATO existed so that the U.S. military could start fighting the Warsaw Pact at the inter-German border and not have to start back at Normandy like in 1944.
“NATO existed so that the U.S. military could start fighting the Warsaw Pact at the inter-German border”
Interesting. NATO was formed in 1949. The Warsaw Pact was formed in 1955 when West Germany was allowed to remilitarize and join NATO.
Except NATO existed for more than five years before the Warsaw Pact was established.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact were basically established for the same reason, but through different approaches: to protect Europe against Germany.
The Warsaw Pact was a traditional mutual defense treaty. NATO was a fake “mutual defense treaty” that was used to mask its true purpose, which was to facilitate a permanent military occupation of Germany by the U.S. and Great Britain (to a lesser extent).