Dear NATO: You shelf life expired 30 years ago

Back in 1991 the Soviet Union imploded. Russia was left with just…Russia, a shadow of the former Soviet behemoth.

Its remaining population under 150 million was just a fifth of the Europe NATO was designed to defend against. It’s a poor country with a GDP less than Italy. Compared to a united Europe, Russia is more like flea on an elephant’s butt.

Thirty years ago, NATO lost its core mission and should have disbanded. But the U.S. wouldn’t hear of it and the NATO members didn’t want to lose the U.S. gravy train of free stuff to defend against a now phantom enemy.

To keep hyping the Russian threat, the U.S. encouraged NATO to expand from its original 12 members to now 30, practically on Russia’s doorstep. This broke President Poppa Bush’s promise to not do that if Russia greenlighted the reunification of Germany. U.S. betrayal was no surprise. When you’re the only superpower standing, you can break agreements and treaties at will. Just ask Iran and the countries trying to combat global warming and nuclear proliferation.

To stay relevant, NATO expanded its core mission to do regime change with the U.S. in Serbia, Libya and Afghanistan among others. Trump was right to denigrate wasteful defense spending to keep NATO off life support.

Biden and U.S. exceptionalists now proclaim America and NATO are back to ruling the world. U.S. treasure again flows to NATO without threat of drawdown.

With Russia clearly an insignificant threat, both the U.S. and NATO are pivoting to the pacific to oppose their new bête noir China. The biggest threat to catastrophic war comes from right here in the homeland, and NATO Headquarters.

Speaking of shelf life, we should treat NATO like milk. Once its shelf life is over…you dump it.