NATO does not have a coherent strategy. From Big Serge at bigserge.substack.com:
Incoherent Security Architecture and the Problem of Grand Strategy
NATO Troops on Maneuvers
“The 80’s called, they want their foreign policy back.”
At the time, it was a stone cold zinger – a nice line that was typical of the celebrated personal political skills and folksy ease of President Barack Obama, and a slick little soundbite on the road to his clinical defeat of Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. With the passage of time, however, it has entered into the dubious ranks of history’s famous last words.
When Romney argued in that debate that Russia was the chief geopolitical rival to the United States, it was easy for Obama to dismiss him, and for the country to laugh it off. At the time, America was riding the high of its great victory over the Soviet Union, Russia was crouched in a passive stance, and it seemed that the only security challenges that now remained were bush wars in the Middle East. But in 2024, who in the American political and foreign policy establishment would doubt Senator Romney’s total validation?
Since 2012, NATO has experienced a revival and a return to relevance that would make any washed up 80’s movie star turn green with envy. After languishing for years, where the only real mention of NATO in American politics were the token admonitions for European members to increase their defense spending, NATO is once again at the center of global (and domestic American) politics. NATO has been identified as one of the critical driving anima of the war in Ukraine, with debates raging over supposed American promises given to the Russians that NATO would not expand eastward, arguments over Ukrainian membership in the alliance, and a growing narrative that one of the key threats from a second Trump presidency is the possibility that The Donald would withdraw the United States from NATO or otherwise neutralize the bloc. Americans, strained by inflation and endemic institutional rot, are asked to please think of the poor, frightened North Atlantic Council when they go to vote in November.
Mittens Romney threw that election with Pauly “Obama’s Beard” Ryan.
No one gets spanked in a debate with Biden unless it is on purpose?
The homegrown comrades want back into Russia with Hitler level insane delusions of partitioning.
One of the best things about Trump is his NATO pay your own way stance.
Another reason the globalists and homegrown Bolshevik traitors hate him.
Go get ’em NATO, you’ll be in the Moscow Green Zone by the (s) election. (honk honk)
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