Right now NATO could not win a war with Russia

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Steve Jermy

“In 2024, reflecting a popular Western belief, former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said: ‘NATO is the most powerful and successful alliance in history.’ Yet just two years earlier in 2022, after a 15-year campaign, NATO was defeated by the Taliban, a rag-tag group of poorly armed insurgents. How can NATO’s humiliating defeat and Austin’s view be reconciled? Of course NATO was never the most powerful military alliance in history — that accolade surely goes to the World War II Allies: the U.S., Russia, Britain, and the Commonwealth nations. Nevertheless, after 1945, NATO did its job, did it well, and those of us who served in it were proud to do so. Since the Berlin Wall’s fall, though, its record has become tarnished.” (01/29/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-war-with-russia/