NATO is a Farce, Part 3: Not Your Daddy’s NATO

The alliance today is just a shadow of its former self, but no one wants to admit it.

NATO troops on exercise in the 1970’s. [Source: Frank Reid via LinkedIn | Photo Credit Tech Sgt Boyd Belcher]

In the first two instalments in this series, I addressed the various aspects of NATO that make it both farcical and dangerous. In “NATO is a Dangerous Farce — and We All Know It”, I described how the current constitution of NATO and the alliance’s relentless drive to expansion and provocation towards Russia posed a tremendous threat to both Europe and the world.

In “NATO is a Farce, Part 2: The Puppet Parade”, I explained how European leaders had become vassals in the thrall of the United States, and were putting US strategic interests ahead of the the interests and well-being of their own people.

Now I want to explain another dangerous aspect of NATO: a fantasy-driven belief in an alliance whose strength, depth and capability are nowhere near where they once were— and nowhere near where they need to be to take on Russia — making the current NATO provocations of Putin both foolish and dangerous.

The Cold War NATO was awesome

I lived in West Germany during the early 1980’s, at the height of the Cold War. Fresh out of college, I had a job as a civilian employee of the US Defense Department working as a bar…