Opinion | NATO Isn’t What It Says It Is
Opinion | NATO Isn’t What It Says It Is
From its origins, the alliance was never primarily concerned with military power.
NATO isn't what it was, but it still provides a use to Europe. If NATO wasn't there, the EU would need to build an EU controlled NATO within.
Its mostly a Community of interest With the common goal to not needing to use nukes.
"Fielding 100 divisions at its Cold War height, a small fraction of Warsaw Pact manpower, the organization could not be counted on to repel a Soviet invasion and even the continent’s nuclear weapons were under Washington’s control."
Sure... writing an article in 2023 about raw man-power being the decisive metric of armies and believing that the US were the only ones with nukes in NATO. To then tell the typical US fairy tale of helpless Europe getting basically nothing for their already meager military budgets and painting NATO as an US tool to stengthen their rule of the Western world.
Tell me that you have no clue about anything beyond the US borders...