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MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 13, 12:12pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 13, 12:12pm
When the Soviet Union fell and Eastern European countries left the Warsaw Pact and joined the EU, NATO become irrelevant.
Even though European NATO members spend less than 2% of GDP on the Military, their standing armies, reserves, planes, tanks, subs, and ships are not only the equal of Russia, but in several categories surpass it both in quantity as well as quality.
This is without the US being included in the numbers.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ronpaul/2015/04/13/the-new-militarism-who-profits-n1984462
NATO, which I believe should have been shut down after the Cold War ended, is also getting its own massively expensive upgrade. The Alliance commissioned a new headquarters building in Brussels, Belgium, in 2010, which is supposed to be completed in 2016. The building looks like a hideous claw, and the final cost - if it is ever finished - will be well over $1 billion. That is more than twice what was originally budgeted. What a boondoggle! Is it any surprise that NATO bureaucrats and generals continuously try to terrify us with tales of the new Russian threat? They need to justify their expansion plans!
So who is the real enemy? The Russians?
No, the real enemy is the taxpayer. The real enemy is the middle class and the productive sectors of the economy. We are the victims of this new runaway military spending. Every dollar or euro spent on a contrived threat is a dollar or euro taken out of the real economy and wasted on military Keynesianism. It is a dollar stolen from a small business owner that will not be invested in innovation, spent on research to combat disease, or even donated to charities that help the needy.