Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "'NATO Is Dead,' Says Chatham House's Timothy Ash (Full Interview)" video.

  1. There is far more to NATO than the US who Europe should no longer need to defend itself. Poland (being wiser than the rest invests in its freedom and that of others!) spends ~4% on self-defense so the rest have no excuse. It was an honor to help defend NATO in the 1980s but soon as the Berlin Wall came down the usual deluded subversives (the USSR was as good at subversion as it as economically and socially incompetent) talked adults who should have known disarmament invites invasion and unlike armed pacifism is an excuse to be a helpless future victim. I've no use for Trump but absolutely nothing else would coerce Europe to do the right thing. The generations who defended Western culture and secular free democracy in the early decades are dead or will soon be pushing daisies. Fresh motivated younger Europeans must pick up the sword unless living under a NeoSoviet respawn looks like a good idea. Blaming armies for wars is absurd. Politicians start those and their public support them. A just people will seek peace and only wage just wars. Be proud of your armed forces for they always were and always will be the force which keeps barbarians from sacking and enslaving you! The profession of war is a noble one where the war is itself noble. Warriors are ennobled by their cause. Ask the former Warsaw Pact members who promptly joined their European brothers and sisters in NATO why they chose freedom. BTW self-defense against nuclear powers REQUIRES nuclear weapons and not someone else's so Poland in particular would be wise to build a domestic nuclear deterrent of the mainland Chinese style which is ample to deter invasion but not sufficient for a first strike which would be destabilizing. HAVE ADULT DISCUSSIONS about your armed forces and their role in your society because national and collective defense is too important to permit yourself ignorance. Democracy is only as good as its voters. Do not let your political party think for you. That is not their purpose. Inaction is consent.
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