What if a woman-hating racist butthead had a valid insight?
A few weeks back, Donald Trump said that we were chumps. He claimed we needed to rethink the purposes of NATO and stop funding it. He was immediately derided for saying something so downright strange and outside the box of our military/foreign policy consensus of the last 100 years of endless war.
NATO was invented to defend Europe against the Soviet Union, which vanished about 25 years ago. NATO now it has a different purpose, which is to save Europe money. As you know, the first duty that a nation has is to defend its citizens against attack. That’s expensive, so Germany, The Netherlands, and 26 other NATO countries have outsourced the job to the United States, who will defend all 28 at no cost to anyone except American taxpayers. It happens to be the case that the NATO countries have no remaining external enemies, so what could be sweeter than outsourcing their national defense? (We could let them defend themselves, but we wouldn’t think of it.)
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