NATO should have been disbanded in 1992.
Now our “tripwire” includes such regimes as Turkey and Albania. Its security theater and a very dangerous arrangement.
Really? Why do you think countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania were so eager to join NATO? Have the Russians lost their appetite for Empire? How reassuring is it to have a KGB thug in charge of Russia?
NATO should have been disbanded in 1992. Now our "tripwire" includes such regimes as Turkey and Albania. Its security theater and a very dangerous arrangement.
I never thought I would ever agree with this point of view, but I have to admit it now. I agree fully. NATO has to go. It has become a welfare program, a super-Marshall plan for Europe to continually milk USA taxpayers and ensure a steady supply of American graves in their cemeteries.
Those miserable Turks should never have been admitted. They are only friendly and "modern" as long as their military keeps their Islamists in check and they are now failing to do so.
I guess it took an Islamo-Marxist child in our White House to highlight this problem. Ironically, President DingleBarry makes the Russians look like friendlies now. There is no way for Odumbo to paint a happy face on what he has wrought throughout the world. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, the list is endless.
It's popcorn time because I would bet that something is going to happen in Turkey. Either the military executes a coup and takes that Erdogan out, or Russian agents do it themselves. Or maybe something entirely different that we can't yet imagine. I'm personally rooting for Erdogan to disappear so we can watch Odumbo has a nervous breakdown.
George Washington warned us to avoid treaties and entangling relationships as it enables other countries to play us as a fool and involve us in the games they play that will never be in our national interest. We need to extricate ourself from the ME.
I would guess that there is a good % that really are not NATO ready militarily, and some % that simply will not participate.