Expanding NATO doesn’t improve American security. It antagonizes Russia and could lead to war.
Although Obama thought he could convince them otherwise, our NATO allies are content to cheerlead while we do all the heavy lifting in Afghanistan.
NATO is encouraging membership bids left and right, for countries not even part of Europe. But is this in line with its original aims or good defense policy for America?
It’s not over yet—the Georgian conflict has pressing consequences for energy security, NATO and the European Union.
Western commentators are focusing on the here and now of the Tbilisi-Moscow conflict. But it has deep roots in the nationalist polices of Georgia’s first post-independence president.
Now that war has broken out between Georgia and Russia, some are saying that granting NATO membership to Tbilisi would have averted the crisis. How wrong they are.
Missile defense is on the agenda again, this time at the G8. The United States has just signed a deal with the Czechs, to Russian protests. At The Nixon Center, Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin explained Moscow’s concerns.
The allies are sending more troops to Afghanistan and behind U.S. missile-defense plans, but less than thrilled about expanding NATO into Russia’s backyard.
Leaders that continually try to add new members to the NATO alliance, American and European, are ignoring reality—at their own peril.
America’s heart tells it to defend small Eastern European states at all costs, but policy makers would come to a different conclusion if they used their heads.