NATO is a Farce, Part 6: Europe’s New Militarism
A frightened Europe once more turns to militarism and authoritarianism, and it will not end well.
This instalment focusses primarily on Europe, and how the European NATO allies are desperately seeking to create a new “security structure” that is independent of the United States, whom they regard as insufficiently aggressive towards Russia.
Unfortunately for Europe, the solution they are creating looks a lot like a totalitarian nightmare.
NATO has changed
According to the first Secretary General of NATO, the British Lord Imsay, the original purpose of the alliance was to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down.”
That purpose no longer seems valid, inasmuch as the Americans do not seem to be as “in” as they once were.
In fact, European NATO members — especially those in the East — seem to be deliberately breaking away from the United States, pursuing their own — much more warlike — policy towards Russia, even as the US appears to be withdrawing from Europe to focus on “other areas” such as China and the Middle East.
I explained this change in NATO force posture in my previous article, “NATO is a Farce, Part 3: Not…
