Obama is pretending that the NATO doesn’t exist.
This is an effective way of telling the NATO countries how interested the US will be if they are attacked.
He’s phenomenal on the economy (we are at almost full employment while look at Europe and its fumbling with the crisis), and on foreign policy he does what the voters want him to do. People in the US seem to have very little interest in anything happening overseas. I cannot blame them since any involvement will just bring pouting and discontent.
I believe that the NATO block richly deserves being left to fend for itself, yet I feel bad for Ukraine that is stuck in the middle.
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The problem is that the European NATO countries CAN’T defend themselves without massive US backup, and in the entire history of NATO since 1949, there’s NEVER been any plan for those countries to be self-sufficient militarily.
The original NATO concept was that the US nuclear umbrella would keep the Soviet Union at bay, allowing Western European countries to rebuild their war-shattered economies while spending only token amounts on defense. During the Cold War, this policy enabled those countries to build up their current socialist democratic welfare states.
Now Putin is turning everything on its head, because NATO is scared that he may be reckless enough to provoke a small-scale conventional confrontation somewhere, like the Baltics. Putin appears to believe (probably correctly) that the US will never respond with nuclear weapons, and he knows that NATO doesn’t have enough conventional forces in Europe to stop him.
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I agree, Putin’s calculations are correct. And what an absolute shame that is.
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The economy…..?
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That’s a joke, right?
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We’re you in the country in 2008-2009? Notice anything different since then?
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