The Incredible Shrinking NATO
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Casey Cunningham
Fun article as usual. Do you mean 'prosecution' instead of 'persecution' of all the Ukrainian war criminals? Just wondered. To me NATO looks like a North American professional sports league, aka SCAM for zillionaires: entry fees for new teams, subsidies footed by tax-donkeys, dubious benefits like 'downtown development', tedious annual awards where zillionaires celebrate themselves by giving hardware (trophies) to multi-millionaires, etc etc...
Steven Trigg
Casey Cunningham, In the 19C there were pit ponys, now we have tax donkeys.
David Weny
Thank! It’s always very interesting to have your analysis of the situation!
Graham Ditchfield
What an excellent essay on the state of NATO and its fondlers. Thank you. Oh to get that out on Twitter!
Rojac
Gold. Would appreciate if this is in a public domain. The world needs to know the real nature of NATO.
Pamela Storer
To top it all, when examining NATO and its disintegration, we learn that for the last 6 months, the US Ambassador to Poland is Ambassador Brzezinski. The son of the late unlamented arch Russia hater, who fomented the USSR and Russia destructive involvement in Afghanistan, Zbignew Brzezinkski, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission!!!! The arch Globalist and manipulator seems to have trained his son up in his own image. Given Poland now being the latest in insanity demanding nuclear weapons for the face off with Russia, one wonders where these track to, and whom.
David Opas
Pamela Storer, One of
Brzezinski, Sr.'s main themes was that Russia could be neutralized with the Ukraine.
Brzezinski, Sr.'s main themes was that Russia could be neutralized with the Ukraine.
Pamela StorerReplying to David Opas
David Opas, Yes Brzezinski had much success with his claim of "the heartland of Eurasia" being key to destroying Russia. Too many "influencers" and power brokers in America took it heart, vide the widespread use of the term "Eurasia", which, although it was first coined by the English Raj in India in the 1800's, he resurrected after Orwell had, and this time with resounding success, as the term is used widespread, thus identifying the entire Northern Continent as being European and Asian or more accurately, Oriental, or Chinese and Russia being blotted out of the consciousness. Although he is of Polish descent, I cant help but consider that the son of the Father of Irrational Russian Hatred is there for other reasons.
JPC_W
"First, it turned out that various bits of US-made shoulder-fired junk — anti-aircraft Stingers, anti-tank Javelins, etc — are rather worse than useless in modern combat."
Nobody told Raytheon, because they are dragging engineers out of retirement to refurbish and redesign Stingers. They still see the Pentagon recertification bureaucracy as the real enemy: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-raytheon-stinger-missiles-1810291
Vanja Serdar
JPC_W,
Here is something from that article that caught my eye:
The announcement of the U.S. supplying Stingers to Ukraine comes amid a
new Reuters/Ipsos survey which shows nearly two-thirds of Americans
support giving Kyiv weapons for their fight against Russia.
How nice for them. Manufacture the consent, then manufacture new "old" missiles. Cheap investment, but highly profitable.
Here is something from that article that caught my eye:
The announcement of the U.S. supplying Stingers to Ukraine comes amid a
new Reuters/Ipsos survey which shows nearly two-thirds of Americans
support giving Kyiv weapons for their fight against Russia.
How nice for them. Manufacture the consent, then manufacture new "old" missiles. Cheap investment, but highly profitable.
Steven Trigg
JPC_W, Yes, these scoundrels have devised a cunning plan; build stuff then lock the serviceability down to authorized technicians which leads to another great income stream. The logical conclusion of following their reasoning is extinction.
Rudi Gale
Can you imagine the Brochure/Presentations that the Russians have put together? And at a fraction of the cost. The Saudis ain't giving America the finger because they're the strongest military power on earth. BTW...do you think Trump knew/gave the ok to take Soleimani out? Anyway. l enjoy your work. I quote "Work, Shop and Home" often. Peace.
Gregg Senne
Hannibal Lector asked Clarice Starling, "What is his sin?" Lector answered, "He covets,"
Punatic
What I'm waiting for is for the Military Industrial Complex to reframe the debacle into "an opportunity for the active testing in a real world situation", and using this "new found knowledge" push for "new and improved" weapons systems that can "dominate in a real world scenario", ie, war with China. More $$$ for them all!
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Steven TriggReplying to Punatic
Punatic, I think you're being generous with moron, you need an IQ between 51-70, I'd suggest imbecile as a compromise ranking. When you look listen to Lindsay Graham you can entertain the idea of genetic garbage.
Biligt SunskaReplying to Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov, But every people in my country wants to migrate to US, Australia or Europe or any Western countries, how to stop them?
walter
During the cold war I saw NATO as a necessary countervailing force to the Warsaw Pact, however, I felt betrayed of the promised 'Peace Dividend' when NATO continued as a tax-payer fleece when the Warsaw Pact dissolved.
I have been against NATO ever since but it has total control over media via the security services so I have never been able to vote to be rid of it. I have no reason to expect Russia to demolish it on my behalf but I can hope!
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