Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“By Donald Trump’s transactional criterion, NATO has been a costly failure that needs fixing or needs to be cut lose. Europe has failed to pay the price and has left the U.S. with the financial and military burden of defending Europe. The war in Ukraine has proven the point. But that was never the point of NATO. The point of NATO was never economic nor transactional. The point of NATO was, in large part, to keep Europe militarily coordinated with, dependent on and subordinate to the United States. The point wasn’t to extricate the U.S. from Europe, it was, as Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of NATO explained, precisely ‘to keep the Americans in Europe, while keeping the Russians out.’ By that criterion, NATO has been a massive success. The Ukraine war has proven that point too.” (08/18/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/08/17/europe-reveals-itself-as-ridiculous-in-ukraine/