Loading ...NATO: The Case To Get Out Now – David Stockman
The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions:
- First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt.
- Second, the only viable starting point for fiscal salvation is slashing the nation’s elephantine Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year.
- Third, the route to that end is a return to the “no entangling alliance” wisdom of the Founders, which means bringing the Empire Home, closing the 750 US bases abroad, scuttling much of the US Navy and Army and withdrawing from NATO and similar lesser commitments elsewhere.
- Fourthly, jettisoning NATO requires debunking its Origins Story and the false claim that it brought peace and security to post-war America when what it actually did was transform Washington into the War Capital of the World, dominated by a panoptic complex of arms merchants, neocon warmongers and a vast Warfare State nomenklatura.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-case-get-out-now
These same conditions have existed since the end of WW2. Seventy five years later we remain in Europe, and our leaders are arguing that this “most successful alliance in history” must continue. It won’t, because the clowns that run things have driven us to penury, not because we have ever made a single proactive decision based on principle or our much vaunted beliefs.