TDS and the NATO Fetish of the Progressive Left

[Fife]

It's time for Trump to wake the fuck up and smell the coffee that was brewing back in the 2016 campaign.

Disentangle with embracing the bubble and whip the empire's ass into shape. IOW, stop blowing smoke up our ass and drain the swamp.

The current approach is both heading down the fiscal poop-chute AND giving the DNC and the neocons talking points about their insane love of the empire.

Here's a piece out this morning on Antiwar.com from David Stockman regarding NATO, TDS, and his appearance on MSNBC:

Trump Derangement Syndrome and the NATO Fetish of the Progressive Left

We’ve got NATO on our mind today because we learned this morning that the mere suggestion this obsolete relic of the Cold War should be abandoned tends to trigger an absolutely virulent outburst of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the mainstream media.

As it happened we were appearing on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" to promote our new book called, PEAK TRUMP: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA.

So long as we were talking about the folly of Trump-O-Nomics and the Donald’s rookie mistake in embracing an egregious stock market bubble that is destined to crash and a failing, geriatric business cycle that at age 115 months has "recession ahead" written all over its forehead, our host, Mika Brzezinski, was happy to nod approvingly.

But when we veered off into approval of the Donald’s efforts to rein in the Empire and make peace with the Russkies, it was an altogether different matter. We no more than launched the thought of it than Mika was sputtering in disbelief – as if we had committed a grotesque sacrilege in public:

In short, European policy action on the defense spending front trumps all the hot air that wafts from NATO’s spanking new Brussels headquarters. Their governments and parliaments positively do not think they are threatened by the Russian Bear because they aren’t.

What would help a lot, therefore, is for the Great Disrupter to forget about his unfortunate infatuation with the idea that bigger is always better, and do what no other American politician in thrall to the Warfare State has been unable to do since 1991 when the Soviet Union vanished.

That is, declare "mission accomplished" with respect to NATO and disband it forthwith.

You could call it a Mercy Killing. Indeed, a couple more NATO summits at which they are browbeat to waste ever more money on defense, and the Europeans themselves may well start begging for exactly that.

Then again, could you imagine how loudly the progressive left would be screaming if the Donald even entertained the thought deep beneath his bedraggled Orange Comb-Over?

357-22 !!

[C-Mag]

We absolutely have to stop these foreign adventures and foreign entanglements. Washington has become what American Patriots revolted against. The major corporations are the East India Trading Co., supported by our military.

These are points Trump made during his campaign, but got no media or DC support, so they haven't gone anywhere.

[DBTrek]

NATO is more like an organization we use to bribe European allies into doing our bidding and a tool we use to provoke Russia than anything else.
And since our allies are damn unreliable at actually doing our bidding and Russia still has enough nukes to exterminate human life worldwide, I’d agree it’s time for it to go.

[C-Mag]

We buy allies.
We provide defense for NATO, so most these countries don't have to defend themselves. Then we their troops as auxillaries in our military. Same, same in the UN pretty much. We buy votes for things like invading Iraq by massive money given to countries for shit like AIDS prevention. Which is a scam. It's a legal way to funnel billions to countries to get compliance with our hegemonic goals.

It's not good for all those countries who don't support their own defense either. They are buying protection. That kicks you in the ass eventually.