Posted on 03/25/2016 12:43:45 PM PDT by all the best
If you want to know why we have a $19 trillion national debt and a fiscal structure that will take that already staggering figure to $35 trillion and 140% of GDP within a decade, just consider the latest campaign fracas. That is, the shrieks of disbelief in response to Donald Trump’s sensible suggestion that the Europeans pay for their own defense.
The fact is, NATO has been an obsolete waste for 25 years. Yet the denizens of the Imperial City cannot even seem to grasp that the 4 million Red Army is no more; and that the Soviet Empire, which enslaved 410 million souls to its economic and military service, vanished from the pages of history in December 1991.
What is left is a pitiful remnant—–145 million aging, Vodka-besotted Russians who subsist in what is essentially a failing third world economy. Its larcenous oligarchy of Putin and friends appeared to live high on the hog and to spread a veneer of glitz around Moscow and St. Petersburg. But that was all based on the world’s one-time boom in oil, gas, nickel, aluminum, fertilizer, steel and other commodities and processed industrial materials.
Stated differently, the Russian economy is a glorified oil patch and mining town with a GDP the equivalent of the NYC metropolitan area. And that’s its devastating Achilles Heel.
The central bank driven global commodity and industrial boom is over and done. As a new cycle of epic deflation engulfs the world and further compresses commodity prices and profits, the Russian economy is going down for the count; it’s already been shrunk by nearly 10% in real terms, and the bottom is a long way down from there.
The plain fact is Russia is an economic and military weakling and is not the slightest threat...
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They have bad ass tanks and nukes. I’d say that is a realistic threat.
Don’t forget the AHs at the U.N.
Get um out!!
Well, come to think of it, there is no threat from the Warsaw Pact anymore. It might be a good time to dissolve NATO, sign a defense treaty with the UK, and tell the rest of the EU to defend itself.
NATO should have disbanded when the USSR collapsed.
NATO putting the pinch on Russia by expanding along their European border had a lot to do with turning Russia hard line again.
I just finished reading a Wapo transcript where Trump explicitly says not to dump NATO.
So what is this article’s source for its claim that Trump wants to dump NATO?
That is my feeling as well. US Taxpayer subsidized Euro socialism is over - defend yourselves and lets see how that socialismo thing works when you have to foot the bill!
The UN has to go first.
Since it is apparent Europe is now EuArabia let them sort out their own problems at their own dime.
And if he had events over Easter weekend, Jeff Roe would be accusing Trump of not being a Christian.
He was advocating back in the 80's.
Free rent, no taxes, time to go.
NATO is a just one more siphon hooked up to the American taxpayer to pay for the EU’S protection. The UN needs to be pushed into the east river also
On the other hand so do the French and British. And except for nuclear, the Germans as well. Unless nuclear came into play the Russians would have their hands full dealing with Poland. Not a Trump fan but I can see the logic of his position.
Too bad any money saved from defense will immediately be wasted on ‘social spending’ instead of reducing the deficit.
And yet somehow those drunk broke Russians manage to engineer the best rocket engines in the world...go figure.
Trump didn’t say dump NATO. If he did I would criticize him for it.
Donald says there is school in Brooklyn that needs the money. He will use his “big heart” to send it there.
Trump doesn’t want to get out of NATO. Only have the member nations pay more and the USA pay less.
As long as Turkey is a member, Islam will have veto power over NATO.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2517173/posts
Good points, both.
I always say that NATO should have been stood up in 1918, 1922 at the latest. It would have saved a whole lot of trouble. Doing so after WWII was too little, too late.
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