This US Congress map shows US bases across Europe. Many of these installations are not meant solely to “protect” Europe; rather, they are primarily designed to enable US power projection toward the Middle East and Africa. These will all go into uncertainty without Nato
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Without nato there might just be a world of nations not obsessed with fending off the big bad reds, we might heal from 2 world wars before dropping the big one. And maybe fascism can be stopped in families schools and corporations before it kills anyone else and maybe the BRICS and G7 can stop trying to act like the economy is a football game and maybe the usa will drop some of its phony imperialist arrogance and learn some real national honor and backbone.Also the west might get some humility about what actually requires any military action.Terrible answer I know.
@Ohplease47 The UK is arresting its own now for mean tweets and FB posts. When America is gone, who will protect the sheep from the wolves in the UK? Who is going to provide the goods and machines and the fuel?
@Ohplease47 Yes, your answer is not without question. Who/Which one of any of these countries will step up defend the areas financially for the military presence required to maintain safety? Answer: None. NATO has been a total drain on American tax payers for the entire time of it's existence, not one nation seems to put up any money or assets.
America should reduce it's efforts and participation overseas and let them figure out for themselves how to survive without us losing more lives or money.
The irony is, NATO pretty much became was it was intended to defend against; political expansionism. Given the political climate in western Europe, they're arguably just as "red" as the USSR/waraw pact before the soviet union fell...
@Iwillwait I dispute that.. On the basis that NATO has for over half a century kept the communist tension and threat far from Americas front door. Look what happens with the Cuba crisis when America felt directly threatened.. America likes to keep conflict in someone else back yard and no be a front line target in the way Ukraine currently is. This is the same rationale that inspired the AUKUS submarine deal. With the rise and expansion of Chinas interests, America was having to patrol the South China sea. A long way from home with no genuine reason to be there. But handing over nuclear powered (not armed) subs to Australia allows them to hand off the expense to a "friend" in the region to actually save them money and keep China under watch..Of course, that deal is falling apart now as America doesnt have the capacity to build the required subs in the time frame..😷
