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A continued discussion of the NATO debacle.
It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and toxic relationships and promises to commit American blood and treasure to flashpoints planet-wide. The sheer insanity of EU/SSR behavior and the total inadequacy of NATO as a military organization across the entire martial spectrum.
NATO insisted after the wall 1989-91 fell that the NATO blob would NOT expand eastward.
It did.
America should take a non-interventionist pause and get its internal house in order before standing astride the world again and lighting fires that never go away and continuously make things worse.
Stop the madness.
First part here: Ep 009 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part One"
References:
Winning The Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air And Missile Defenses
The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age
Nyet Means Nyet (William Burns 2008)
Pat Buchanan Where Does NATO Enlargement End?
DoS Cable: NATO ENLARGEMENT: RUSSIAN ASSERTIONS REGARDING THE TWO-PLUS-FOUR AGREEMENT ON GERMAN UNIFICATION
Books:
Edward Bernays Propaganda
Sevim Dagdelen NATO: A Reckoning with the Atlantic Alliance
Matt Kennard The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
Daniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Scott Horton Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game
Mark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile Defense
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
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