NATO?
What’s the point of that been for the last 20 years?
An easy win over the Serbs, a few thousand troops for even more pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an ever expanding bureaucracy that enjoys the good life in Brussels.
Apparently, NATO is still vital, but only to the Eastern Europeans, who think we’ll come marching in on their side should the Russians invade.
These would be the same Russians we cut a deal with last week to eliminate a bunch of nuclear weapons.
Missile defense, another colossal waste of money, is the way we keep the Eastern Europeans onside, but the Western Europeans alas aren’t terribly interested in phony security.
Shouldn’t NATO scrap its aging nuclear arsenal?
Not so fast!
Hillary says we shouldn’t move too fast on nuclear arms reduction in Europe, mainly because the East Europeans and Turks don’t want us to move to fast.
Older NATO allies, like the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, want to get rid of what are by all accounts useless, nonstrategic weapons.
So, we’re back where we’ve always been, with an alliance whose members outside of the US cannot project anything like military power in the 21st century and many of whose members don’t see much point in having their soldiers die while fighting very marginal terrorists in countries far, far away.
“This alliance is bloated,” the American official said. “It needs to be reorganized for the 21st century.”
Modernization is the key, as it’s always been in Washington’s advanced think tank circles, although that’s currently defined as less bureaucracy in Brussels and more boots on the ground to fight terrorists, who are winning in Afghanistan despite being equipped with very 19th century technology.
And so the circle remains unbroken, and nuclear proliferation spin is now the new deterrence, or something…
Gorilla says: “Time to take the Mannekin Pis out of this alliance!”
