The US spent $686 billion on NATO or 3.6% of US
GDP. The other 28 countries paid $255 billion. The entire price-tag is $941
billion a year.
The purpose of NATO was to protect Europe from
being taken over by Communists. The
irony is that the Europeans chose Communism on their own through their
socialist policies. The EU is full of
globalist, Marxist, Socialist Communists and they are imposing their laws on
Europe using cult creation tactics like political correctness. It’s nuts.
The UK, Poland, Greece and Estonia pay 2% of
GDP or more. The other 25 countries pay less than 2%.
Trump is right to challenge our NATO partners
to pay up and he is right to challenge Putin in Russia to make NATO
unnecessary. The governments of these NATO countries need to reduce their
military spending and pay down their debts if they can. It is probable that these NATO countries will
want to maintain their alliance, because they don’t think they can trust themselves
to re-establish their own military.
The rational for
creating NATO in 1945 was to protect Europe from further expansion of the
Soviet Union into Western Europe to establish more Communist satellite
countries.
There are 29 NATO member countries including Albania,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech
Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro,
the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United
Kingdom, United States.
When the Soviet Union
dissolved in 1989, their 15 Republics and 6 Satellite Nations were given
independence and formed their own national governments. Many continued to
remain trading partners with Russia, but recently Russia had Crimea vote to be
annexed by Russia and Ukraine has been fighting “separatists” in Eastern
Ukraine since 2014. This has some Baltic countries including Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania nervous, but the rest of Europe has been treating Russia like a
trading partner.
Politically the USSR was divided in 1940 into 15 constituent or union
republics— Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Moldovia, Tadzhikistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
In addition the USSR controlled satellite
countries in Eastern Europe that included Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
When the USSR dissolved in 1989, it released
its republics and satellite countries.
East Germany reunified with Germany in 1990. Czechoslovakia split into
Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Yugoslavia
split into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and
Slovenia in 1992. Kosovo split from Serbia in 2008. When given a choice,
everybody formed into ethnic groups. So much for multiculturalism.
This mess occurred because Franklin Roosevelt
gave Stalin all of Eastern Europe in 1945. By 1989, the Soviet Union ran out of
money and had to retrench. They released
Eastern Europe and also released its republics. They dissolved the Soviet Union
and banned, Communist Party and reopened the churches.
The “released” countries found themselves still
trading with their traditional trading partners, but some were attempting to
expand their economies. In 1993, some joined the EU as a trade organization,
but by 2000 their governments had given away their national sovereignty and the
EU was writing their laws. Regular
citizens of these countries were cut out of the process and they still didn’t
have a real country with citizen voter control.
Every time there is a power vacuum, crime and
corruption enter the fray and citizens suffer. They have no idea whether or not
they will once again be annexed by Russia.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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