What Is NATO Good For Today?

[endicom]

American Greatness
Brandon J. Weichert
June 4, 2017

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has lost its purpose. Created following the devastation of the Second World War, NATO was intended to “keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Throughout the Cold War, NATO proved to be an effective cudgel stunting the revolutionary push of Soviet Communism into Western Europe. Yet, following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO became a defensive alliance with no clear enemy from which to defend itself. It became listless. Even as it expanded into former Soviet-occupied states, NATO became a purposeless, multilateral, intergovernmental bureaucracy.

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He covers a lot of ground here. I agree that NATO, if continued, needs to be revamped.

[dfwgator]

To quote Edwin Starr, "Absolutely nothing."

[dfwgator]

He covers a lot of ground here. I agree that NATO, if continued, needs to be revamped.

Starting with, kicking out Turkey.

[truth_seeker]

How about repurpose the dang thing, to keep  hordes of invading muslims out of Europe? That is too blunt, too politically incorrect.

One maybe one-to-one arrangements would work better. Coalitions of the willing.

[endicom]

How about repurpose the dang thing, to keep  hordes of invading muslims out of Europe? That is too blunt, too politically incorrect.

One maybe one-to-one arrangements would work better. Coalitions of the willing.

Too blunt to be stated but not to be effected.

[INVAR]

Let's answer that question about the UN first and foremost - and THEN, and ONLY THEN should we look into that question about NATO.

[endicom]

Let's answer that question about the UN first and foremost - and THEN, and ONLY THEN should we look into that question about NATO.

You do what you can, when you can.