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Ron Paul: Suddenly, Leaving NATO is on the Table!
“A relic funded by American tax dollars.”
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I do not understand Americans like Ron Paul. Are they stupid or corrupt? Both before WWI and WWII America thought we could just stay out of the war. We were an island unto ourselves. That despite our historical and familial ties to Europe, we could just sit back and watch as the Europeans slaughtered each other and say nothing as evil dictators murdered millions of innocent people. It did not work.
Recognizing our failure after WWII we set up a system to prevent this from happening again. And for three quarters of a century, this system has allowed America and Western Europe to become powerful, wealthy and live in relative peace. No war has come to any of our shores.
For most of the post WWII era, the west has had one enemy. Russia. They have persistently sought to divide us and conquer us. When the USSR split up during the Reagan era, we thought finally we have won, we can move on from the Cold War. We were wrong. Where the USSR fell Russia arose and China arose. But through all this our alliances have stood the test of time. They have made us powerful, wealthy and living in relative peace.
Now Trump and people like Ron want to throw all of that away. So I have to ask myself why? How is this good for America? Honestly, I cannot come up with one single good answer. All my answers lead back to corruption. For example why does Trump want to end the war in Ukraine? To save the US money? Clearly not. We spend 800+ billion a year on defense. This is to protect us from our two enemies the Russians and the Chinese. We gave Ukraine a very small fraction of that, and with the resources provided by our European allies they have effectively destroyed the Russian army as a fighting force and the Russian economy is in shambles. If we just continued the pressure for another year or two Russia would likely collapse, eliminating one our enemies and denying the Chinese a valuable supplier of resources for their war machine. That seems good for America, and cheap given what we spend to defend ourselves. So what is the reason Trump wants to end the war. What is the reason Trump told the Pentagon to unilaterally disarm in the cyberwar we have been fighting with Russia. The only country that benefits from ending the Ukraine war on the terms Trump wants and shutting down our cyberwar capabilities is Russia. So why are we doing it? My answer is corruption at the highest level, but I am willing to look at other that make sense.
Good to see that you enjoy reading “The Book Of Our Very Best Fairy Tales” by NATO. They put a lot of time and effort into that book, making themselves the hero and such.
How much better off might we have been had we sat out those WW conflicts? Wasn’t it the First WW conflict that was used as an excuse to forceably take hard-earned money from American citizens? You know, that “temporary” income tax that is still with us over a hundred years later? Had we sat out that conflict, might it have been that we would not have gotten to enjoy a second WW conflict, just over two decades later, caused in part by the severe sanctions imposed on the losing country and the economic destruction brought upon it by the 20th Century version of America’s 1860’s carpet baggers, the Juden?
I could go on but I won’t. I will just ask you not to believe every book of fairy tales that gets put in front of you.
You really don’t read do you? I think you must be writing your own fairy tails in your head. You comment has nothing to do with my comment. While we can debate whether we should have entered WWI, we were forced into WWII because we were attacked first. Remember Pearl Harbor? Nonetheless, the point was we tried to stay out of WWI and WWII, but we got pulled in. The purposes of the system of alliances we set up post WWII, was to prevent that from happening in the future and it has been very successful. No war has come to the shores of a NATO nation. Since its inception the NATO nations have only activated Article 5 once and that was after 9-11 when our allies rallied to our defense, offered aid and offered resources
The only time Article 5 of the NATO treaty has been invoked was in support of the USA after 9/11.