Trump was the first prominent politician to make an issue of America’s role in NATO, and how we were getting a lot less than we were putting in. Since then, others have publicly questioned the U.S. role. From Robert Bridge at strategic-culture.org:
With no European bogeyman waiting to pounce on its neighbors from the shadows, there is no longer a need for overriding American influence and outlandish spending on the continent.
For over a century, the United States has had one overarching goal in Europe: ensuring that the continent’s economic and military power was divided among various states by preventing the rise of a European superstate that could usurp that power for itself. Now that that goal has been achieved, will Washington admit it’s time to Europeanize NATO?
In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, the influential voice of the U.S. establishment, Justin Logan and Joshua Shifrinson fire a shot across the bows of Brussels when they repeat the Trump mantra that “it’s time for Washington to Europeanize NATO and give up responsibility for the continent’s security.”
“The United States should recognize that it has achieved its main goal in Europe,” Logan and Shifrinson write. “Having successfully ensured that no country can dominate the continent, it should embrace a new approach to the region. Under a revised strategy, the United States would reduce its military presence on the continent, Europeanize NATO, and hand principal responsibility for European security back to its rightful owners: the Europeans.”
As half of the U.S. electorate hopes to ‘make America great again’ with the populist Trump, that opinion is quickly going mainstream.
Remember when Trump said the same thing and gas was two dollars a gallon or less?!
And no WARS were going on.
Good Times.
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Black Sunshine
[Indestructible Sock It To Me Psycho-Head Mix]
(Spoken intro by Iggy Pop)
And Russia is content to become a “normal democratic capitalist state” but the war cons always push them away or are like Lucy grabbing the football after hinting at bloc membership?
Good thing Ivan has tremendous patience.
Breaking from Carpathian Forest:
The Northern Hemisphere