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Leave and Destroy NATO, It’s Long Overdue
Previously unthinkable, amazing developments are afoot in the hyper-capitalist terror state that aspires to rule the world. On March 17, el jefe Donald Trump announced in a fit of pique that he might pull the U.S. out of NATO. This would be the single best move he could make – for all the wrong reasons, of course, but hey, nobody’s perfect – amid the chaos of the Ukraine War, where Russia, winning on the battlefield, will dictate terms, because that’s what victors do, and the Iran War, where Tehran is beating the living daylights out of Israel and so’s Hezbollah and Iran has pretty much evicted the U.S. from the Gulf.
There is nothing good to say about NATO; any praise is humbug. What has it done for us lately? Zilch, besides serve as a possible trigger for World War Three should the Euro-lunatics running it decide to send troops to Ukraine. Trump’s threat to leave NATO, despite his motive – rage at NATO’s attack of sanity and refusal to participate in the Iran War – is a breath of fresh air. The only thing I can say about it is Hallelujah. Do it! Do it! Or, as Armchair Warlord tweeted on X months ago, when possibly leaving NATO was bruited about – be still my heart.
But Trump will need all his repulsive dictatorial powers to evict us from NATO’s crappy grasp. That’s because back in 2023, Genocide Joe “Proxy War” Biden signed a law aimed specifically at Trump and one of the few decent things he might do if elected, a bill barring the president from unilaterally exiting NATO without legislative approval. Presumably Biden’s so-called thinking was if Romania bombed Moldova, we wanted in. Under Article 5, that’s exactly what would happen, we’d have no choice. But Biden likely just wanted to make sure we’d be compelled to send in the F-35s (before Iran shot them all down).
Now, three years later, things have changed. NATO, in a rare fit of rationality won’t help the white house Don Corleone with his doomed assault on Iran. Where have all the NATO nincompoops gone? Did they all suddenly grow brains? Or did Vladimir Putin give them brain transplants and now they can think? Whatever happened, let’s have more of it.........