NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

The US may have to leave NATO before long. The bloc is “heading south” in terms of their original purpose, which is, or was, to protect each other in the event of a member state being attacked by a non-member. It’s purpose is not to defend non-member states and Ukraine is a non-member.

Any NATO state may sell or otherwise provide munitions to any state but not send in troops unless it’s a NATO state under attack, yet this is being planned under EU auspices. That doesn’t matter, they’re still members of NATO.

Meanwhile, Turkey is moving troops into Syria as a direct threat to Israel, the US’s strongest M.E. ally, and Turkey is a NATO member. The US does not want to find itself in defense of Israel against Turkey, and in defense of member nations under attack by Russia because they invaded Ukraine. The only tenable position is to withdraw from NATO, allowing the US freedom from pressure to engage itself in undesired and harmful involvements.

If the US leaves NATO, that organization may not collapse but it will certainly do some major reorganizing. Germany mostly runs the EU and it’s not hard to imagine them taking over NATO and converting it to a dictatorial military force that brings even more restrictions on the freedoms of Europeans than they’re suffering now. “1984” definitely comes to mind, that scenario has been on the increase in Europe for decades now anyway.