PEAK DISDAIN

The United States has reached the limit of its endurance with its European satraps in the disarmed and ineffective wing of NATO. I don't think any rational student of foreign policy and war could watch the Europeans in the EU bait and attack Russia for the last 4 years and not worry that they have lost all sight of objective reality. Their disdain and contempt for Russia and President Putin knows no limits and is very much like the disdain and contempt for President Trump and the United States under its current majority party rule. They hate US and Russia and we don't care.

Militarily, European military forces are not even a pimple on the butt of either the United States or Russia. Those who believe in the fantasy of numbers point to the number of aircraft or tanks or soldiers that Europe has and imagine that the numbers alone mean that they are on par with the US or even Russia because there is "so much." The problem being, none of it is real and the numbers lie and on top of that the will to employ force at the national level is dead and buried in Western Europe.

Every war you can recall to mind in Europe was fought for nationalist reasons and it is really hard to get men to fight for a "better standard of living for our islamic and african refugees." The idiots running Europe into the ground over the last 50 years have done everything in their power to torch nationalism and make sure it never rises again. What they've done is just exactly what the old European Empires did when they set out to destroy nationalists in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Napoleonic Empire, British Empire, 3rd Reich, and the Warsaw Pact. Everyone knows how that worked out each time.

Let us look at recent history and the actual form nationalism takes in Europe and elsewhere. Once upon a time the collapse of one empire led to the formation of a mini-empire called Yugoslavia which was made up of Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians, Macedonians, etc. When it was destroyed by its indebtedness and torn apart by rival ethnic nationalism it was the leading edge of nationalist dissent in Europe but it was way out on the fringe and everyone in Western Europe pretended it wasn't really part of Europe, really. They never think back to who fired the shot that allegedly led to World War I.

It won't surprise anyone who reads here to learn that using Yugoslavia for inspiration the CzechoSlovakian State decided to split on purely ethnic/nationalist lines and a number of other states in Europe experienced a resurgence in real nationalism from peoples long thought to be fully integrated into the miasma that is Spain or the intricate partitions of ethnarchies all along the old Soviet Frontier.

 These people are relentless and they are slowly winning because the ruling class forgot that without the Primary Nationalist Front to hold everyone together it became easier for each ethnic minority to claim it was owed not just a slice of the pie, but also their homeland and its slice of the pie. You can see these devils ranging everywhere such as around Kurdistan (which does not and never existed but bedevils Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran.) 

You also get the Alliance for Germany which merely wants to have all the foreigners kicked out of Germany and for the German government to stop giving German money to the immigrants and also to stop giving it Italy and Spain and all the less productive member states of the EU. The ruling class has one universal response to this which is to stamp it all out of existence and jail the leaders of such nationalist parties everywhere they arise. I can't wait to see what they hang on Nigel Farage.

All of this simply covers the polite face of nationalism in Europe but doesn't begin to address the old issues that nothing short of extermination or removal seems to address. All these old tribes also want their land back. People everywhere are quietly interested in going home but they don't want to live under the governments that currently rule these lands, they want their own governments to run them. Every time you turn around in Ukraine you find another proposal for slicing up more of Ukraine and giving it back to Poland or Hungary or......And you thought it was just the Russians that wanted their land back.

The original intent of the ruling class that understood the underlying basis of upstart nationalism was to prevent just this. It was not to stamp out their own national identities but to curtail and dismember the radical movements that wanted, for instance, Prussia back. (Honestly, nobody anywhere wants Prussia back in German hands.) The thing is, the borders shifted so much after World War II that all countries are affected and yet all of them took the idiotic path of stamping out nationalism and importing foreign workers because they tied nationalism to naziism in their diseased minds and so anything the nazis praised was, ipso facto a bad or evil thing. Remember how the nazis wanted great big families?

My fellows and I have just about had it with European idiocy and disdain. We can see them all heading right back into the same rat war they get into every 20 to 40 years and we don't want to be any part of it. This is not a West against the East War or an anti-communist war, it is the collapse of an entire civilization on one continent that ruled the world. I keep thinking it will be like the fervent nationalist time of 1848 but it could also look a lot more like Spain in 1936.

Right now we tend to think of Europeans as sheep. No bark, no bite. They didn't used to be like that but they have been socialized into being essentially harmless. You have only to look at the extraordinary number of foreigners running their governments to realize how far down the pole they have managed to slide. What happens when they realize that they are far more broke then the United States is and all the benefits of living with your parents until you are 45 go away?

It would be interesting if our break with NATO did nothing but take the form of De Gualle's politique de grandeur and we simply announce that we are withdrawing from the NATO integrated military command and withdrawing all of our armed forces to North America and turning over all of our bases and installations to the owning governments. As they used to say of France; still a NATO member, just not a military member of a military alliance. We can do that too.  

You see one of the problems everyone else has is articulating what specific benefits the United States gets from being a member of NATO. Right off the bat I cannot see any. In fact, from here, everything argues that it long past time for America to leave Europe to its own devices because right now they appear to be insane and vicious to an unexpected degree. They prefer their rulers and their rulers prefer the extinction of Israel to any other thing. They probably forgot that this has already happened before, any number of times, and yet they persist.

A few people wonder that we seem to have entered into a war with Iran, a much more dangerous power than Iraq and yet for some reason we did not spend 6 months building up an enormous and ceremonial alliance and deploying hundreds of thousands of troops to staging areas near by and we made no effort as we did in Iraq to sweet talk our putative allies into aiding us in that war called Desert Storm where our very good friends and NATO allies in Turkey refused to permit the 4th ID to deploy through and to sit on the Iraqi frontier and draw off some of Saddam Hussein's armies from Kuwait. It was a buildup that saw us concentrate the bulk of our naval power in the region before launching the counterattack and yet NONE OF THAT HAPPENED IN IRAN.

I have a theory about that. I think that the last real Intelligence Agency in the World showed its cards to President Trump and the Head of that State told him that if aid was not immediately forthcoming to assist with the destruction of Iran's incredible missile threat, they would have no choice but to use nukes. There are just two places left in the West where the hard men rule and neither of them shirked the necessity to act immediately and decisively.

I guarantee that the relevant leaders told the National Command Authority that we had the power to break Iran but there was no way on earth to fix what we broke and there was also no way on earth to establish free and unfettered commerce through the SOH given the nature of the geography and the sheer number of platforms available to attack some of the most defenseless ships in the world. The response must have been something along the lines of, 'that will do very well, it solves a number of pressing issues in urgent need of resolution.' Europe is finding out that their issues are simply no longer our issues. That's not really congruent with having and maintaining a military alliance.