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| Robin Burk: Time for controlled demolition of NATO? |
| 2025-03-06 |
| [TheBlaze] With outdated goals and bloated costs, NATO may need a complete overhaul or a controlled dismantling to protect America’s long-term interests. When they’re first built, skyscrapers and other towering buildings are impressive. But there comes a time when structural weaknesses raise the danger that one will collapse, injuring or killing many people going about their daily business. Shoring up the building works for a while, sometimes, but often things reach the stage where the most prudent action is to demolish it in a controlled way. The United States faces similar structural threats today. The two most urgent and fundamental dangers are the unchecked administrative state at home — and, by extension, among globalist NGOs — and the declining condition of many NATO partner countries. Both the administrative state and the U.S. role in NATO were products of postwar efforts to create stability and order after World War II. However, these institutions have grown far beyond their original purposes and now pose significant risks to our national security, economic stability, and core constitutional freedoms. Both the entrenched administrative state and our current alliances with Western Europe now show serious structural weaknesses. Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency project is exposing the depth of corruption and waste within the administrative bureaucracy and its NGO partners. As a result, Americans are starting to see how these networks leave ordinary people struggling to afford basic needs like food and rent. The findings also reveal the extent of the country’s precarious financial situation. However, fewer Americans realize how European countries have drained U.S. resources — and arguably poisoned the relationship — through their actions. While the United States has shouldered most of NATO’s expenses and defense efforts, European nations have neglected their own militaries and failed to meet their defense commitments. European nations have made things worse by burdening their own economies with unsustainable welfare programs and excessive regulations that stifle innovation. At the same time, they have imposed unfair tariffs on U.S. goods, increasing the economic strain. Even more troubling, they are trying to impose regulations on U.S. energy use, free speech, information flow, and even the participation of popular parties in national governments. Recent examples are easy to find, and Vice President Vance recently highlighted some of these issues at the Munich conference. Meanwhile, they expect the United States to continue draining its resources, admit Ukraine into NATO — which would commit U.S. forces to respond to Russia — and silence any criticism of their actions on social media. The hypocrisy is both staggering and offensive. For proof, just look at how much Russian oil and gas Germany is buying today, even as it refuses to allow imports of Israeli natural gas. Is it time to consider a controlled demolition of NATO? Possibly. The alliance should have been restructured or dissolved after the Soviet Union fell 34 years ago. Instead, President Clinton and his successors expanded NATO incrementally by adding former Soviet and communist countries on Russia’s border. That this strategy would provoke a response was entirely predictable. |
| Posted by:Vortigern Speaking for Boskone4685 |
| #10 Re NATO & civil rights. It should not be forgotten that a crackdown on free speech in the name of promoting NATO & US government policies has been a consensus in the Western political class for a quite some years. The Bush administration's political support for basic civil rights in the West after 9/11 was lukewarm at best, the Obama administration was downright hostile. Obama, a beloved POTUS who was elected and reelected, officially and publicly demanded that the future must not belong to basic free speech. The free speech in question being a Christian pastor's publicity stunt designed to draw attention to Islam's murderous intolerance. At the same time representatives of a passive aggressive, disrespectful, hostile and evil regime (liberated Afghanistan / The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) were obesequiously receiced by the US & NATO politcial elite, even unsuited in the Oval Office. MB Egypt, a recipient of US aid, officially called for negotiations with the US about amending the US Constitution to make it Sharia compatible, to no outrage or consequences. The Obama administration leaked information about Israel's potential actions against Iranian nukes, even though Iran pioneered the Islamic threat to Western free speech rights in the West. Even Donald Trump criticized the targets of the Garland attack in 2015 for criticizing Islam after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. I believe this demolition, controlled or not, already happened in Afghanistan, it was called Operation Enduring Freedom. Because of Afghanistan NATO, very much including the US, chose to abandon the core values of Western civilization. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-03-06 15:06 |
| #9 ...Berlin 1945. Maybe not start a war? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-06 14:11 |
| #8 controlled demolition |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-03-06 12:35 |
| #7 badanov, Robin used to be a moderator at the Burg but hasn't been one for a while now. |
| Posted by: Vortigern Speaking for Boskone4685 2025-03-06 10:41 |
| #6 Post War I, II, and Cold War Europe has formed the EU. It has pretty much declared it no longer needs or wants the US physically there, just the freebies give (MTV, PHV, Prüm, Manheim, Hubbelrath and many other sites) and $$$$$ we send and spend there. So save the US Taxpayers a $10+ Billion in annual OCONUS expenses and let the EU defend itself. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-06 09:08 |
| #5 Given the EUs hatred of what Americans consider basic liberties, why bother? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-06 06:45 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: badanov 2025-03-06 06:37 |
| #3 NATO should have been demolished after the fall of the Warsaw Pact; instead, it only got bigger and wants to get involved in Asia. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-03-06 05:01 |
| #2 For our newer 'burgers, Robin Burk used to post here regularly. She is whip-smart. |
| Posted by: Matt 2025-03-06 03:10 |
#1 Look at my post on the French speech today.Macron just delivered his speech to the nation: We need to run away from NATO right now they are making the Democrats in house and senate look saner. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2025-03-06 02:47 |