To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and to the Secretary-General of the largest, most expensive military alliance on the planet, everything looks like an excuse for taxpayers to get out their wallets.
NATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s latest commentary reads much like every other commentary on every other situation even remotely NATO themed, a plea for dramatic increases in military spending to “modernize” a fighting force that is already the overwhelming majority of the planet’s armed forces.
Today, the excuse is the Russian annexation of Crimea, which Rasmussen spun as a need for “intensive training” to confront Russia militarily, and a major hike in deployments to eastern Europe for “defense.”
Rasmussen’s position is nothing new for him, or for NATO’s leadership, as US officials have similarly pushed for spending increases, the same increases they were fighting for last summer without the illusory Russian threat, but now with a new sense of feigned urgency.
I thought this jerk was put out to pasture………………
He's a useful jerk, so stays for a loooong time.
Hey Foggy, sit down and STFU!
This man would alliance with Hitler and his old, leftover SS solders to have his way. Europe is dying of hunger, the days that Europe could or would provide for anyone is over, the only kind of people that would suggest more spending for Europe is the Europeans Neo fascism and Anders Fogh Rasmussen is one of them, yet, this man is the far right of the far right Scandinavian politicians presenting the Swedish and other, they are presenting the European aristocrats and nothing in between.
Is NATO home from Afghanistan yet?
Are they still relying on the northern route through Russia to retreat out of Afghanistan?
If he means that (all) the countries of NATO increase military spending, well, good luck with that. If he means that the US should increase it's military spending to offset the European spending that doesn't happen, well, good luck with that. If it comes down to Europeans giving up social bennies for military spending the response is predictable. And as for the US picking up the slack, the American people are being forced to the point where the point that we can't afford increased military spending (and the belligerence it fosters) at the expense of what meager under-funded social programs remain. It is going to reach the point where the people say loud and clear that enough is enough…no more…I hope.
If he means that (all) the countries of NATO increase military spending, well, good luck with that. If he means that the US should increase it's military spending to offset the European spending that doesn't happen, well, good luck with that. If it comes down to Europeans giving up social bennies for military spending the response is predictable. And as for the US picking up the slack, the American people are being forced to the point where the point that we can't afford increased military spending (and the belligerence it fosters) at the expense of what meager under-funded social programs remain. It is going to reach the point where the people say loud and clear that enough is enough…no more…I hope.
The usual government way to solve problems real or imagined- throw more money at them.
The US will spend itself to bankruptcy to benefit the arms mafia.
The usual government way to solve problems real or imagined- throw more money at them.
The US will spend itself to bankruptcy to benefit the arms mafia.
"We owe it to society"…
Let's make that, we owe it to the military-industrial complex, and the usual merchants of death.
Hey Jason D. Where did you get that photo? We were led to believe that Florida put Theodore Bundy down in 1989.
I always thought, Russia should just put one big nuclear bomb on London and one smaller one on Riad in Saudi Arabia just to help those People to come back into reality. And after that we could see how many friends the US government still has in the world after all the wars and the lies:-)
But now when I see that guy Rasmussen with his one digit IQ I think maybe Copenhagen would be as useful as London.
Our Western economies have unilaterally deindustrialized and as a result are experiencing falling living standards and rising indebtedness. So, how does Mr. Rasmussen expect we pay for this increase military spending? During the Cold War didn't unsustainable military expenditures combined with a poorly managed economy bring down the Soviet Empire? Might the same fate await the United States Empire?
Rassmussens A%%%S is sucking air.
Buy now and save thousands…
Thousands of jobs for blinkered, blathering and beribboned militarists and their death-mongering buddies in the MIC.
I'd rather have the balloons and beer, thanks all the same.
ME 2………. and maybe a linem or two of something complementary………….