NATO expands into irrelevance

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 17 08:00:53 PDT 2002


ChrisD(RJ) wrote:


>Diane wrote:
>
>Who needs a new and expanded NATO? ...the industrial-military complex? Who
>are our enemies?
>Expanding NATO will add many more billions to our nearly $300 billion
>dollar military budget per year -- not to mention the additional $29.4
>billion that was just approved for military and antiterrorism spending.
>
>NATO is a relic.
>
>Diane
>----------------
>Well, the Baltic states are worried about Russia.
>
>Chris Doss
>The Russia Journal

What if NATO isn't really about "defense" against an enemy, but instead to keep its members under the watchful eye and military command of the U.S.?

Doug



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