The U.S. did not join NATO; it founded the alliance as a tool for containing the Soviet Union. SEATO, too, served to contain communism. It was—and to some extent still is—a tool of the deep state, which the Trump administration is currently dismantling entirely. It was definitely not capable of, and was likely not intended to, protect Western Europe from communism. In the event of an attack by the Warsaw Pact, the troops of the GDR and the Soviet Union—behind the Polish troops of the first wave, and thereafter expendable due to massive nuclear weapons use from the outset—would have been at the Rhine and the French Channel coast within a few days. This would have happened long before American ships had even crossed the Atlantic.
What we are seeing now is the logical consequence of the realization that the U.S., as the military arm of the Three-City Alliance, could no longer maintain global military dominance due to mainly technological and financial deficits. Hence the tripartite (USA, Russia, China) division of the world looming on the horizon.
DJT had to soothe the soul of America. The abolition of NATO is a PsyOp, as can be seen from the many, many related posts here. Judging by the tone of the threads, the psychological challenge of overcoming the notion that the whole thing might initially have stemmed from a position of weakness has been successfully met.
Germany was not "protected" by the U.S., but was always intended to be sacrificed if the worst came to the worst. It didn’t really matter, since Germany is still a non-sovereign, occupied country.
The U.S. did not join NATO; it founded the alliance as a tool for containing the Soviet Union. SEATO, too, served to contain communism. It was—and to some extent still is—a tool of the deep state, which the Trump administration is currently dismantling entirely. It was definitely not capable of, and was likely not intended to, protect Western Europe from communism. In the event of an attack by the Warsaw Pact, the troops of the GDR and the Soviet Union—behind the Polish troops of the first wave, and thereafter expendable due to massive nuclear weapons use from the outset—would have been at the Rhine and the French Channel coast within a few days. This would have happened long before American ships had even crossed the Atlantic.
What we are seeing now is the logical consequence of the realization that the U.S., as the military arm of the Three-City Alliance, could no longer maintain global military dominance due to mainly technological and financial deficits. Hence the tripartite (USA, Russia, China) division of the world looming on the horizon.
DJT had to soothe the soul of America. The abolition of NATO is a PsyOp, as can be seen from the many, many related posts here. Judging by the tone of the threads, the psychological challenge of overcoming the notion that the whole thing might initially have stemmed from a position of weakness has been successfully met.
Germany was not "protected" by the U.S., but was always intended to be sacrificed if the worst came to the worst. It didn’t really matter, since Germany is still a non-sovereign, occupied country.
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