It All Comes Back to NATO

[lexity]

It All Comes Back to NATO - LewRockwell

When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no sense. Explaining my “no”...

www.lewrockwell.com

Unfortunately, as we have seen this past week, my fears[expressed in 2008] have come true. One does not need to approve of Russia’s military actions to analyze its stated motivation: NATO membership for Ukraine was a red line it was not willing to see crossed. As we find ourselves at risk of a terrible escalation, we should remind ourselves that it didn’t have to happen this way. There was no advantage to the United States to expand and threaten to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep. There is no way to argue that we are any safer for it.

NATO itself was a huge mistake.

 

[ShaunSA]

tl/dr/dc

 

[ToxicBunny]

Oh yay, Mr P7.235900897234 weighs in on global politics again.

How's lexitystan going there buddy?

 

[ShaunSA]

Oh yay, Mr P7.235900897234 weighs in on global politics again.

How's lexitystan going there buddy?

Not so well since their Parliament building got torched by some hobo

 

[Herr der Verboten]

tl/dr/dc

from the rooftops?

 

[ShaunSA]

from the rooftops?

Always

When are you changing your dp to show you stand with Kievfefe?

 

[Cray]

Ron Paul, ....

 

[LazyLion]

As long as their are mad dictators in the world... yes we need NATO.

... and who the hell is Lew Rockwell?

 

[R13...]

... and who the hell is Lew Rockwell?

A libertarian and a self-professed anarcho-capitalist

In other words, lexity's wet dream

 

[ForceFate]

As long as their are mad dictators in the world... yes we need NATO.

... and who the hell is Lew Rockwell?

Lew Skannen's 2nd cousin

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Always

When are you changing your dp to show you stand with Kievfefe?

That means nothing, I'd rather either donate my time, money and real life action. I've adopted 2x int charities towards that end and are currently looking at local options ZA-ers.

 

[ShaunSA]

That means nothing, I'd rather either donate my time, money and real life action. I've adopted 2x int charities towards that end and are currently looking at local options ZA-ers.

@Unhappy438 will be along shortly

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

As long as their are mad dictators in the world... yes we need NATO

who guards the guards?

Gaddafi and Asad both were/are objectively better for the world than what followed their removal/attempted removal, yet they're labelled dictators.

So the US has proven, time and again, it cannot be trusted to be the world's policeman. What makes you think NATO can be trusted with that role? ... ignoring for the moment the fact that it is officially not NATO's role, they're all about the "defence"

 

[rambo919]

As long as their are mad dictators in the world... yes we need NATO.

That was the reasoning behind the Athenian League....

 

[My_King]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with the wrong spelling of words "

 

[Monkeyz]

Too afraid to post this in the war thread?

 

[vigras rojara]

Too afraid to post this in the war thread?

This thread has seceded from the war thread.

No forced association around here.

 

[ForceFate]

Too afraid to post this in the war thread?

It's going to devolve into Cape independence thread.

 

[ToxicBunny]

It's going to devolve into Cape independence thread.

No questions, NATO will devolve into "Big Man bad, give me P7.23400234224." In a very roundabout long winded way of course.

 

[LazyLion]

In other words, lexity's wet dream

Like I said... who the hell is Lew Rockwell?