NATO Now Serves the Interests of the Transatlantic Ruling Class

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American Greatness
Angelo Codevilla
July 15, 2018

If we’re to believe the recent NATO summit’s communique and the mainstream media’s commentaries about it, the alliance serves roughly the same essential purpose today as it did in 1948, and Americans had better heed European Council President Donald Tusk’s thinly veiled warning: rein in President Trump’s criticisms of NATO, because its members are about the only allies America has got.

But although the people who run today’s European and American societies are perhaps closer to each other than in 1948—which accounts for their dogged defense of “the alliance”—in fact, they themselves have changed in ways that obviate the purposes for which the alliance originally was formed.

The point of departure for understanding U.S.-European relations is that the relationship between “the people who count” on both sides of the Atlantic are so good precisely because they  have become aliens to their own peoples. And, since all are in the process of being rejected by their own peoples, they are each others’ natural allies. But against whom are they allied?

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[dfwgator]

Why is Turkey still in NATO?  They are a much bigger threat than Russia.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Why is Turkey still in NATO?  They are a much bigger threat than Russia.

Yeah. We put up with the Turks and turn a blind eye to the Christians being slaughtered in the middle east.

Wouldn't want to be whoever's ultimately responsible for this when Saint Peter whips out his score card on them.