The Europeans haven’t been supporting their own defense for 75 years. In the 1980’s, at the height of the Cold War, the Germans had 9+ Active Divisions in Europe, the US had 5 (including 3 independent Brigade sized units), the Brits had 1 Active Division. The rest of NATO essentially nothing.
The Europeans haven’t been supporting their own defense for 75 years. In the 1980’s, at the height of the Cold War, the Germans had 9+ Active Divisions in Europe, the US had 5 (including 3 independent Brigade sized units), the Brits had 1 Active Division. The rest of NATO essentially nothing.
But the bigger question is who do they need to defend themselves FROM? It is the global regime and the US intervention in foreign governments that has caused all the problems and wars. And the CIA has been instrumental in it.
The USA should not be the "world police", and should not be forcing "democracy" on other sovereign nations.
I wrote this comment to Erick Erickson's sorta-conservative column today. It fits here equally well:
[Erick said] "Our costs would go up more. Our interest rates would go up more. The foreign exchange rates from which we benefit would increase. Our freedom would decline."
If our nation continues its feckless policy of foreign interventionism, picking winners and losers, supporting alliances which should be allowed to expire on their own, the growth of BRICS and the end of the petrodollar's sovereignty will accomplish every point Erick made in that quote. Global leadership is earned, not demanded, not assumed. As in all secular enterprises, the position of global leadership depends on merit, not on entitlement.
If anyone can convince me that America is currently setting a moral and righteous example worthy of emulation by other nations, I'd like to hear your explanation of how promoting deviancy, self-absorption, rampant secularism, and profligate squandering of human and natural resources will attract other nations' people to "the American way of life".
I spent a lot of time this week-end surveying the political/economic, business and banking dynamics prime moving. We are in a debt trap, one of our own lunatic making. And with certainty, America and its tawdry empire are rip for a fall. The smart money sees this all and is loading up on real money without liability, gold and silver.
The LBME and the COMEX, and I dare say the Fed, have lost control. The gig is up. And the spectacle following the Ukraine package seconds dire prognostications. The world sees it all.
You're right of course. In exchange for that the Europeans deferred on all foreign policy decisions regarding the Soviet Union and Warsaw pact to the US. The Soviet Union had a similar strategy, not too arm it's satellites too much because they could rise up against them.
Some in the EU are thinking about setting up their own defensive alliance.
The Europeans haven’t been supporting their own defense for 75 years. In the 1980’s, at the height of the Cold War, the Germans had 9+ Active Divisions in Europe, the US had 5 (including 3 independent Brigade sized units), the Brits had 1 Active Division. The rest of NATO essentially nothing.
But the bigger question is who do they need to defend themselves FROM? It is the global regime and the US intervention in foreign governments that has caused all the problems and wars. And the CIA has been instrumental in it.
The USA should not be the "world police", and should not be forcing "democracy" on other sovereign nations.
I wrote this comment to Erick Erickson's sorta-conservative column today. It fits here equally well:
[Erick said] "Our costs would go up more. Our interest rates would go up more. The foreign exchange rates from which we benefit would increase. Our freedom would decline."
If our nation continues its feckless policy of foreign interventionism, picking winners and losers, supporting alliances which should be allowed to expire on their own, the growth of BRICS and the end of the petrodollar's sovereignty will accomplish every point Erick made in that quote. Global leadership is earned, not demanded, not assumed. As in all secular enterprises, the position of global leadership depends on merit, not on entitlement.
If anyone can convince me that America is currently setting a moral and righteous example worthy of emulation by other nations, I'd like to hear your explanation of how promoting deviancy, self-absorption, rampant secularism, and profligate squandering of human and natural resources will attract other nations' people to "the American way of life".
I spent a lot of time this week-end surveying the political/economic, business and banking dynamics prime moving. We are in a debt trap, one of our own lunatic making. And with certainty, America and its tawdry empire are rip for a fall. The smart money sees this all and is loading up on real money without liability, gold and silver.
The LBME and the COMEX, and I dare say the Fed, have lost control. The gig is up. And the spectacle following the Ukraine package seconds dire prognostications. The world sees it all.
You're right of course. In exchange for that the Europeans deferred on all foreign policy decisions regarding the Soviet Union and Warsaw pact to the US. The Soviet Union had a similar strategy, not too arm it's satellites too much because they could rise up against them.
Some in the EU are thinking about setting up their own defensive alliance.