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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
Could NATO hold it's own till help from surely a friendly country like USA came to their aid?
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There are regions inside NATO-Europe's geographical borders and there are scenarios where I would doubt this. Still, NATO wants to geographically grow, like the EU as well. Recently France has blocked Albania and Macedonia from starting negotiations about EU membership, and all other EU countries were shocked and pissed, but I think France is right there. You do not form stronger alliances by adding more and more weak members. You strengthen the overall alliance by adding stronger members, and you keep the overall strength if adding members whose individual strength is at least on the level of the alliance's strength. By adding weaker members you weaken the alliance, like adding water in your drink: it doe snot become more plentiful oin taste and intensity,l but it gets watered down. That is true for the EU. And that is true for NATO. Problem is that politicians live in a bubble and are immune to unwanted realities, they do not understand that symbolic acting is not the same like strength in the real world. A claim is not the substance of things - a claim is just sound waves, or ink on paper.
German wannabe defence ministress AKK talks about Germany now needing to face more military international actvities. Its not the first time this woman intellectually implodes over things she suggests. She has no word lost on getting Germany first into a shape where it could actually support and sustain such raises in international engagements. Heck, AKK even mentioned a German military stand in the Far East, against China.
With what, stupid woman - with what...??? One frigate (with a broken down helicopter aboard)? A flight of recce tornados? Two weeks ago she tried herself on resolving Syria. The joke-ful result from her ambition already is legend now. Putin, Erdoghan, Assad - they all shoke their heads about so much dilletancy, and even at NATO HQ they were highly amused, and just too polite to laugh out loud while the cameras still were running.
Thats what you get when you leave dealing with hard realities to novices and laymen not having a clue of matters and things. You become the laugh of the day, week and month. Personally I think the job of a defence minister should be reserved to somebody with a minimum of several years of own serving experience in the armed forces. Instead we get the second clueless but over-ambitious barrack Barbie in a row who sees the defence ministry only as a starting block for her own run for the chancellory. God have mercy with us.