"NATO was still not intended, or configured, to engage in real war.
The role of the NATO alliance in Afghanistan was summed up beautifully for me by an American military acquaintance there: “We pretend to listen to them, and they pretend to fight”."
The role of the NATO alliance in Afghanistan was summed up beautifully for me by an American military acquaintance there: “We pretend to listen to them, and they pretend to fight”."
https://twitter.com/RStatecraft/status/1381608049861885955
"The disastrous role of NATO in international affairs began at the end of the Cold War ... compounded by European anxiety over the perceived loss of U.S. protection, America’s perceived loss of regional hegemony, and the worry NATO officers and bureaucrats would lose their jobs."
"Under the grotesquely self-serving slogan of “Out of Area or Out of Mission,” NATO turned itself into a vehicle for the expansion of liberal democracy and American power in the world.
The negative results were threefold ..."
The negative results were threefold ..."
"Russia was quite unnecessarily turned back into an enemy;
America’s dangerous belief in its mission to bring freedom to the world was strengthened;
Europeans were encouraged...in strategic irresponsibility under America’s security blanket, at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer."
America’s dangerous belief in its mission to bring freedom to the world was strengthened;
Europeans were encouraged...in strategic irresponsibility under America’s security blanket, at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer."
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