tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7193518586304622412..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: NATO Seeks Legitimacy at the MarginsThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53788819658028407092010-05-18T11:29:27.305-07:002010-05-18T11:29:27.305-07:00There are several good reasons to maintain, even s...There are several good reasons to maintain, even strengthen a mutual defence alliance incorporating only the original NATO states, or most of them.<br /><br />The Pentagon knows, the British MOD knows and plenty of others know that the "best scenario" impacts of climate change this century will pose grave security threats to the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Holland and the Scandinavian states. There is a genuine commonality of interest, selfish as it may be, among these countries. That doesn't extend to the old Warsaw Pact/Danube Basin countries which were impulsively stuffed into NATO's skin.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1382782533147905162010-05-18T08:46:51.011-07:002010-05-18T08:46:51.011-07:00Today's NATO is little more than a league of A...Today's NATO is little more than a league of American client states that provide auxiliary troops and political cover for the various American colonial wars. The world would be a better place without it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-64994308510814434592010-05-18T07:26:15.671-07:002010-05-18T07:26:15.671-07:00Over and above politics of wars the weapons’ indus...Over and above politics of wars the weapons’ industrial complex is a major factor. It has to sell its product to someone and the demand goes up when wars get started.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.com