Why NATO? Economically the US and the EU are deadly enemies!

[Arminius]

@jerkey

Convincing argument!
Yet, the very chaos , according to the view which prevail, in EU and USA is, that the forces at work to manage the chaos need the combined resources of both economies. The fact remains that the US is the biggest spender in the world for military spending, and the her deterrent absence would encourage the Immediate destabilization of world peace. For that reason alone, a NATO as a military alliance cannot be suddenly disengaged from being a sort of policeman of the world.

Who said that the United States have to be “the biggest spender in the world for military spending”?

@jerkey

Where did I hear that term before?

What term do you mean? The following sentence?

@jerkey

The joint power of NATO imposes constraints upon the forces which would do Europe harm.

Do you mean this sentence?

@jerkey

In addition, there are still very staunch and formidable enemies, very reactionary in their holding against such fairly recent, and surprising developments as the unification of East and West Germany.

East Germany is now West Poland and West Russia. Middle Germany is now called “East” Germany, and that is incorrect. And there is no peace contract. So the Germany as the German Reich (Deutsches Reich) still exists. All the huge reparations and other productive an monetary payments are paid by Germans because of the existence of the German Reich. And I remember well, when the “Iron Curtain” fell and many Polish and Russian people were willing to give the German territorries back to Germany. So where are those “formidable enemies, very reactionary in their holding and surprising developments as the unification of East and West Germany”. I have never met such “enemies”.

These “enemies” are produced by Westerners.

@jerkey

The geopolitical map of Europe, is a fairly recent development, and East and West conflict did not totally erase from the consciousness of former belligerents, not even 2 generations old.

No, the West-East-Conflict (Cold War) was a “fairly recent development”. The geopolitical map of Europe before the West-East-Conflict was relatively similar to the geopolitical map of Europe after the West-East-Conflict, but the geopolitical map of Europe during the West-East-Conflict was neither similar to the geopolitical map of Europe before the West-East-Conflict nor similar to the geopolitical map of Europe after the West-East-Conflict. So the development you are talking about is not “fairly recent” as you said but fairly similar to an older development.