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Ron Paul: NATO 'doesn't need to exist'

RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:42 UTC

Commenting on the 70th anniversary of NATO, former US Congressman Ron Paul told RT the alliance is actually harmful to US interests of peace and commerce, empowering only the military-industrial complex and those who want empire.

Libertarian-leaning politicians spoke up against NATO at the time of its founding in 1949, Paul (R-Texas) told RT on Friday, adding that seven decades later, the alliance "doesn't need to exist. To keep the military-industrial complex going, to keep the agitation, you always have to have an enemy."

Paul was concerned about the principle of having an international organization that not only gets the US involved everywhere around the world, but also "badgers" and pressures other countries to back US adventures in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere.

He pointed to the looming inability of Washington to afford a global empire - the US national debt is currently $22 trillion and counting - and the growing dissatisfaction of allies with the US imposing its will and telling them what to do. "I don't think that's going to last forever. Matter of fact, I see some cracks in that already," Paul said.

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zaddick · 2019-04-06T21:14:58Z

After 42 yrs. in the military, which I enjoyed thoroughly, 6 Nato deployments which were a farce and 2 UN peace keeping tours. I can say that Nato in all honesty is no loner needed, there is and really never was a treat from Russia. We where the ones treating Russia.If you leave it to the military and it's main backer the Military Industrial Complex they would like to double the toys for big boys and continue the never ending wars. Just look where most of these Generals end up when they retire, a lot of them end up working for the the dogs of war the Arms industry. There's no profit in peace, and there's no money in peace just thousands of inocenet lives saved.

zaddick · 2019-04-06T22:03:55Z

After 42 yrs. in the military, which I enjoyed thoroughly, 6 Nato deployments which were a farce and 2 UN peace keeping tours. I can say that Nato in all honesty is no loner needed, there is and really never was a threat from Russia. We where the ones treating Russia.If you leave it to the military and it's main backer the Military Industrial Complex they would like to double the toys for big boys and continue the never ending wars. Just look where most of these Generals end up when they retire, a lot of them end up working for the the dogs of war the Arms industry. There's no profit in peace, and there's no money in peace just thousands of inocenet lives saved.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-04-06T22:19:48Z

zaddick WELCOME! As you state:

After, 42 yrs. in the military, which I enjoyed thoroughly; six NATO deployments, which were a farce; and, two UN peace keeping tours, I can say that NATO, in all honesty, is no longer needed. There is not, and really never was, a threat from Russia. We were the ones threatening Russia.

If you leave it to the military and its main backer, the Military Industrial Complex, they would like to double the toys for big boys and continue the never ending wars. Just look where most of their generals end up when they retire - a lot of them working for the dogs of war; to wit: the Arms industry.

There's no profit in peace, and there's no money in peace - just thousands of innocent lives saved.

Excellent!

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-04-06T22:22:56Z

zaddick When I posted the above, I'd not seen your modifications. Apologies. All & only good will intended.

Please also see infra.

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2019-04-06T22:36:28Z

Zaddick: WELCOME & THANK YOU!

I detect real truth in your words, and know I am not alone in welcoming folks from far closer to the front lines of truly ‘newsworthy’ events - and eras - who have a far better perspective of the realities there than we who find ourselves informationally distanced from those times, places, and events, as we try to decipher objective reality through the filters of:

a) Our own inescapable subjectivity, which I’m proud to say that SOTTites - certainly moreso than most - routinely do try to keep that awareness at the forefront of their minds in commenting, et al.; and, more importantly,*

b) Our all-too-common lack of honest information from the places where many of those important events occur, worsened by the intentional deception, disinformation, lies of omission and commission, etc., by the PTB/MSM, and their mostly successful attempts to reframe ‘reality’ so that the man in the street’s view is whatever the PTB wish it to be.

As CIA Director William Casey said, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." *

R.C.

*(At least more importantly for SOTTites, and sadly, far less so for the fooled masses/proles – whose unknowing subjectivity is routinely taken advantage of by the PTB/MSM)

** For detailed proof, see, e.g., [Link]
RC

HashAttack2 · 2019-04-07T12:17:33Z

Rowan Cocoan

as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones

It's the juice on the unknown unknowns that we need

HashAttack2 · 2019-04-07T12:18:23Z

The 70th anniversary sounds like an excellent time to start planning for the complete dismantling of NATO by the 75th one

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