NATO: why should Europe finance America's folie?

Lord Ismay, first Secretary General of NATO, stated the mission of the organization without any ambiguity: “To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” To this, the post 9/11 history has de facto added "support any American acts of madness across the globe".

Is this something we should spend European tax payer Euros on? Either the original mission or the new extension?


America always calls the wars to be fought; then an acquiescent NATO, waits for orders from the Pentagon, rewritten in Brussels. European forces are a mere foreign legion serving in an American imperial army.

Robert Gates

All this is bad as it is, but last week, Robert Gates, in his final days as US defense secretary, accused in a resentful tone, the European partners in Nato of not pulling their own fair share of the weight. Mr Gates stated that America is unfairly burdened with providing funding for and the muscle behind NATO.


What does Europe need the US for? Bombing civilian targets in Belgrade? Invading sovereign states under false pretenses? Practice torture and extra-judicial killings? Transforming the Muslim world into a nest of fanatics?


Has Europe forgot where the US was when needed? The French learned a lesson from the Suez crisis, but apparently not the Brits! Why do we need an "ally" that finances and trains the terrorists that massacre our civilian populations, as they did in the Portuguese colony of Angola?


We cannot criticize Mr Gates, he thinks he is acting in the best interest of America... as he did when supporting the Taliban. However we must strongly whip our politicians for their silence and inaction.


Any cent spent supporting US military action across the world is a crime against all European citizens.


Or are we in the same pathetic situation of Japan, who still pays the US for its own occupation?


Not only must NATO be consigned to history, and replaced by a European army, but all American troops must be removed from European soil.

A European Army is needed

PS: list of European countries hosting US occupation forces:
Shame you government into making them leave!

• Denmark (Greenland)
• Germany (Including nuclear weapons)
• Greece (Including nuclear weapons)
• Italy (Including nuclear weapons)
• United Kingdom (Including nuclear weapons)
• Spain
• Norway
• Sweden
• Belgium
• Portugal (mostly Azores)
• Netherlands (Including nuclear weapons)
• France 
• Poland 
• Serbia (in occupied Kosovo Metochia province)

Georgian games

The latest South-Ossetia crisis was initially presented as a David against Golias situation, with poor Georgia facing the "evil" Russian bear.

Politicians in the US and Western Europe (the latter with no excuse!) quickly accused Russia of a millions sins and of being the aggressor.

Time duly proved that the aggresion in fact came from Tblissi, probably looking for sympathy  from the West.

Nevertheless Europe needs to draw lessons from Mihail Sakashvili's games.

As the crisis started U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Tbilisi, pledging U.S. support for Georgia's bid to join NATO!

Imagine this had become a fact before the crisis: Georgia a member of NATO.*
Would we have been dragged to war with Russia for the madness of Sakashvili?
Any expansion of NATO needs to be subject to the closest scrutiny. There is no place for the countries in the Caucasus or the Ukraine. Even the expansion to the Baltics and Poland was an error, causing all kinds of problems between Europe and Russia, to the satisfaction of Washington DC.
In fact we must ask: what is in it for us, Western Europeans?
Liquidate NATO and we will be better off!!
(This irresponsible behaviour is a reminder of Kennedy's idiotic decision to place nuclear missiles in eastern Turkey, on the border with the USSR, that led to the so called Cuban missiles crisis and the world to near nuclear war.)

*Parallels must also be seen for Turkey's application for EU membership.

Condoleezza Rice and Mikhail Sakashvili in Tbilissi

South Ossetia war map - 2008