Ethiopia was not worth the bones of one European to save Haile Salassi from Mussolini. The German occupation of the Rhineland was not worth the bones of a single Frenchman to stop Hitler. The Russian attack on Finland was not worth the bones of a single European to stop Stalin. The Japanese attack on Manchuria was not worth the bones of a single European to stop Japanese expansion. The Indonesian attack on Papua New Guinea was not worth the bones of a single Australian to stop Indonesian militarism. The Iranian occupation of the US Embassy was not worth the bones of a single American to stop Khomeini and Islamist expansion. Etc., etc., etc.
Pearl Harbor wasn’t even in the United States.
Those two skyscrapers in NYC would have come down eventually anyway, especially after GWB planted those bombs in them hisdamself.
Excellent points!
Nato was founded to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. Well, the Germans have figured out how to keep themselves down with their migrant policies. Russia has meddled in the region, but we have too. Look at how Wesley Clark almost sparked open warfare with Russia during the Kosovo campaign. That is what Trump is talking about - pushing Nato into areas that are of no strategic importance in such a way that could spark a much larger war.
NATO used to be half the number of countries it is now and each time it grows, it becomes both riskier in terms of treaty obligations, and watered down in terms of shared defense costs.