When Sen. John McCain called for a unanimous vote in favor of allowing Montenegro into the NATO military alliance, Sen. Rand Paul stood up and opposed the measure. Did he kill Montenegrin NATO membership? No, but now the Senate will actually have to debate the idea of extending military guarantees to such unstable micro-states as […]
Rasmussen: Isolationism Will Not Make the United States Safer and More Prosperous
The former Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen writes: Barely had I been seated before Vladimir Putin told me that NATO—the organization that I then headed—no longer had any purpose and should be disbanded. “After the end of the Cold War, we dissolved the Warsaw Pact,” he said. “Similarly, you should dissolve NATO. That […]
Judging U.S Alliances
The National Interest explains how U.S. alliances should be judged: The United States stands at the center of a far flung global alliance system, which commits it to defend the security of countries rich and poor, great and small, liberal and illiberal. The principal U.S. formal alliances are the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the U.S.-Japan […]
Turkey and NATO Article 8
The National Interest looks beyond Article 5 of the 1949 Washington Treaty (the attack on one attack on all treaty): The treaty Turkey, a NATO member, signed the Baghdad Pact in 1955 to become a member of CENTO. In carrying out its obligations under CENTO, Turkey could not expect that other NATO members would automatically […]
Trump’s NATO Heresy
Donald Trump got into some trouble last week when he told the New York Times’ David Sanger and Maggie Haberman that when it came to NATO allies who might come under attack but had not pulled their own weight in the alliance, “I would be absolutely prepared to tell those countries, ‘Congratulations, you will be […]
What Now For NATO?
Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes in National Interest (Online): Erdogan’s victory over an extraordinarily inept coup plot did not signal a victory for a truly democratic Turkey. Instead, his government has used the incident to purge not only the military, but the judiciary and the educationalsystem of thousands of opponents. The extent and speed of […]
NATO Terminal?
Could a Donald Trump presidency be the last nail in NATO’s coffin? “NATO is an alliance showing multiple signs of a terminal condition,” writes Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Trump “would be almost certain to demand major reforms, and it is not out of the realm of possibility that he would […]
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