Daily NATO warnings to President-elect Trump against making any serious challenges to the alliance’s status quo have picked up a momentum of their own, with NATO-friendly analysts now predicting the imminent collapse of “the West” in general over Trump’s election.
The concern over Trump centers both on his call for other member nations to pay more of the cost for their own defense, and his questions about the alliance’s relevance in the post-Cold War era. The Clinton campaign’s portrayal of Trump as a “Russian puppet” only added fuel to the speculation he would undermine NATO’s status as an alliance inherently hostile to Russia.
The Cold War set up the narrative of East versus West so strongly that it appears to have given the impression, at least among some analysts, that NATO is the equivalent of the West, despite the puzzling implication that the West’s “survival” hinges so heavily on its hostile military buildups in Eastern Europe, in territory that was decidedly part of the “East” during the Cold War.
Either way, analysts are still falling back on the assumption that Russia’s invasion of NATO territory is imminent, despite years of such predictions not panning out, and NATO leadership eager to scare the Trump Administration into line are doing nothing to undermine that misconception.
The US exiting NATO would be my dream come true. I don’t expect it, but hope lives on…
Yep. Then the UN.
Russia is in the UN. America leaving it won’t make the world safer.
The European Dogs of War need an external villain to demonize to blame all of their problems on.
They now have to deal with the 1970 Walt Kelly quote, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I believe NATO still has value to the US. It keeps the US in, Russia out, and Germany down.
It prevents the NATO members from even considering fighting with each other, or evaluating each other as potential enemies whose “defense” becomes a threat as seen by others in Europe.
But NATO was formed when Europe was prostrate, and completely disunited. The EU is now united, and Europe has a population 50% bigger than the US with an economy that is similar. Circumstances are now different in ways that matter.
In that larger Europe, the German Army has exactly ONE division. One. That is absurd. They are a third the power of the US Marines alone. Their air force is also smaller than the Marines alone. Nobody else is much better. The UK boasts, but has only a few hundred tanks and a few hundred planes. France is the same.
There is much to revisit that does not mean the US goes all isolationist or sees no value in NATO. Trump is opening that negotiation. Let’s hope he realizes where it must end up.
NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) has NO value whatsoever, Mark .. It’s a useless Cold War relic that should’ve been disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact and the USSR itself. The only reason NATO still exists is that it’s become a Trotskyite aka Neocon tool to bully and wage illegal aggressive wars in the Mideast, Africa and Central Asia.
Furthermore, as Alance said, the European Dogs of WAR need an external enemy to demonize and to blame all of their problems on.
Alance also noted that they now have to deal with the 1970 Walt Kelly quote, “:We have met the enemy and he is us”.
This is absolutely true. Now with Donald Trump having been elected POTUS last Tuesday, these Dogs of War will have been neutered, once Trump and Putin put their agreement to resume US-Russian ties on paper, and sanity will once again return to the world.
Media become necessary evil in democrasy and in order to keep these bustards honest politicians like Trump should find way to maintain that.
We all remember, media declared war on Richard Nixon and he was renowned / resigned.
That’s the reason one small population we all know who they are,
understood this media reality and rules the world and keep brainwashing and keeping American public ignorant.