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Originally Posted by ColdTruth
Do you realize who finances NATO? Certainly the majority of NATO's $$ doesn't come from mainland Europe.
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Right. NATO is a tool of power and expansion of the U.S. Those finances are an investment that renders the US profitable gains.
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If you hate NATO, you leave. You don't use taxpayers money for your own defence while ignoring NATO obligations.
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Again, you make it look as if Europe were sitting comfortably and profiting from U.S. American taxpayers. Which is not right. U.S. American taxpayers are putting their money in a product that yields profits for their government.
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The only explanation that I can phathom is that European governments are secretly afraid of the rise of Russia again, and they want NATO to still be intact while they don't want to fight a 'war on terror'.
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That would be little wonder, wouldn't it?
Russia is the excuse that the U.S. used during the Cold War, to keep alive the interest for their product of expansion, NATO.
Since the Cold War is over, the U.S. have been fabricating other excuses (such as the 'war on terror') to keep the interest of their product still alive. This has had mixed results. Which is why the U.S. have resolved to resucitate the old ghost of the USSR, hostigating Russia on the very borders of this country with other countries of Europe, to provoke the conflict.
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