What’s So Great About NATO?

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What’s So Great About NATO? › American Greatness
Christopher Roach
11–14 minutes

Donald Trump resumed his role as the “wise fool” in recent, off-the-cuff remarks about NATO. He suggested that free-riding NATO members who do not pay their fair share might have to fight Russia on their own. National security hawks and Trump’s media enemies responded with lots of pious talk about our sacred NATO obligations. Joe Biden even said Trump was “un-American.”

Trump is not the first to suggest NATO partners should pay their fair share. But unlike his predecessors, he is willing to employ some leverage to make it happen. The real dirty secret here, as evidenced by how long this situation has gone on, is that enabling the Europeans to neglect their own defense is a feature and not a bug of America’s dominance over the NATO organization.

The weaker our European partners are militarily, the more they need the United States. With the destruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and imposition of severe sanctions against Russia, Europe is even more dependent on the United States for energy supplies than it was before the war began.

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https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/05/whats-so-great-about-nato/

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Totally dishonest article, especially this passage:

Third, NATO’s expansion towards the borders of the former Soviet Union and then to the former Soviet Baltic states served as a massive and needless provocation. By then, Russia was a non-communist, non-ideological, and non-expansionist nation, shaking off the dreadful economic conditions and national humiliation of the Yeltsin years.

1) NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance and member states have to REQUEST to join it, after which all other members must unanimously agree.

2) Russia fell back into its true expansionist form after Putin rose to power, starting wars of conquest in Chechnya, Georgia/South Ossetia, and Ukraine, thereby validating NATO's existence.