The End of NATO

NATO is finished as a Global Offensive force controlled by the US. The other European members do not have the stomach nor the will to be America's Centurions any longer and especially if it means squaring off against a nuclear armed Russia.

NATO's lackluster performance in Afghanistan should be a definitive indicator. They (NATO troops)prefer to stay behind in safe areas and provide humanitarian and reconstruction aid. That is why we have had to send in more US Marines and other US troops for front line combat duty.

NATO was conceived as a counter to the Warsaw Pact after WWII. When the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and by default the Warsaw Pact, so did NATO's mission. There existed no further use for an Atlantic Alliance to defend against a non existent Soviet invasion through the Fulda Gap, the gateway to Western Europe. Horrors, what to do with all the military bureaucracy, all that hardware, all that lost business for US Defense contractors. All those generals and other fat a$$ bureaucrats with nothing to do.

Clinton and his bunch of Global commie monarchs saw and seized on an opportunity to keep those general's paychecks coming and have themselves a nifty global army at their disposal, to do good in the World of course.
Albright, Holbrook, Rubins and I'm sure all of their Republican (and Democrat) NeoCon cronies, also thought it would be a great Idea to have a global army that the US could use to carry out their world domination schemes (while doing good). Let's do Kosovo says they. It looked good on paper but in truth, the Serbs were not that easy to crush. The US and NATO lost over two hundred, that's right, two hundred combat aircraft and rescue helicopters over Kosovo and Serbia and an unknown number human military casualties.

Some were shot down in Serbia and Kosovo proper, others crashed in Bosnia, Macedonia or Greece and numerous others crashed/ditched in the Mediterranean. Other US and Allied aircraft that made it back to the NATO airbase in Aviano Italy were so shot up they had to be scrapped. This is why the US Air Force had to institute a six month "Stand Down" to lick their wounds while Clinton and their cohorts tried to put the NATO Alliance back together again.

But it was never the same. The European members paid a heavy price for allowing the US to bully them into attacking Kosovo and Serbia proper. Seeing that unlike Americans, European learning curves are relatively high. I predict it will be close to impossible to strong-arm them (with the possible exception to the morons in Britain and some of the Baltic States) to join together in global crusade to punish Russia for the same if not less offensive, deeds of the Bush clowns and Israel of course.

So all of you true believers out there that want a robust response to this horrible aggression of a sovereign state by the evil empire from NATO you better not hold your breath. The US will have to do its own dirty work this time and I don't believe we/they are packing the gear.