Before Trump even became President in 2016, he said then he was going to “rethink NATO.” I guess he's done just that.
I caught the Promethean Action live stream, also on March 26th, and Barbara Boyd hit the nail on the head: “He did not blink. He is reordering the entire world.”
Too right.
While the usual suspects in Brussels and the City of London clutch at their pearls, Trump is quietly dismantling the tired old post-war racket that’s been bleeding America dry for decades. No more playing the world’s unpaid security guard for fair-weather friends who talk a big game but deliver sweet FA when push comes to shove. This is Trump giving the middle finger to Atlanticism.
That fact ought to make Tucker Carlson leap for joy and love his president again, but sadly it won’t as he’s too neck deep into his anti-individualist, antisemitic Duginist pseudo-philosophy. Carlson’s new mission is obviously to fracture MAGA, but I doubt that will work despite his 17-million followers on X. He’s just become too silly to be taken seriously anymore. He sacrificed his patriotism for the idiotic occultist views of a new Rasputin and in Mother Russia there's one born every minute.
Speaking of anti-MAGA, even Bret Stephens at the New York Times - hardly a Trump fan - had to concede in his piece a couple of days earlier that this Iran campaign is going a damn sight better than the doomers predicted. Iranian missiles and drones have tailed off sharply, the economic fallout hasn’t cratered the global markets like they swore it would, and American losses have stayed mercifully low compared to the endless quagmires of the past, so far. Stephens still finds room to nit-pick the planning, but you can hear the grudging admission underneath: the results are speaking louder than the panic.
I’m just a Kiwi watching from the other side of the world, but I recognise a world-altering war when I see one. For the anti-war brigade who like to think that no war is ever just, they need to explain exactly why they’re perfectly comfortable with the status quo which happens to be a permanent state of war, i.e,. a murderous Islamic Republic that has spent its entire existence exporting terrorism and threatening civilisation itself, while also terrorising its own citizens within its borders. Anti-war my ass.
Trump has promised forever that he wouldn’t let Iran go nuclear and he’s kept his word without dragging the United States into another ‘forever war’ just to keep European inflated egos intact. He’s exposing the whole post-1971 (Nixon) financial-entanglement game for what it is - a relic that’s long outlived its usefulness. In its place, something saner is emerging: relationships built on actual strength, real production, and putting your own nation first. Places like Pakistan, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, all involved in Trump’s new Board of Peace, are already shifting gears outside the old way of doing things. That tends to happen when theocratic psychopaths next door start lobbing bombs into your civilian populations and infrastructure without any provocation.
The legacy media can wail about “chaos” all they like, but the facts don’t lie. Iran’s military is in ruins, their regime leaders are either dead already or in hiding, oil prices haven’t sent the world into meltdown, and the body count on the American side is nowhere near the nightmare scenarios. Leadership with principle is in play, the kind rooted in Western values of reason, resolve and self-reliance, not endless polite agreements in corridors of power that achieve bugger all.
Trump didn’t blink. He looked at the mess previous administrations left and decided to fix it. Whether the globalists want it or not, the sands are shifting. America is remembering how to put itself first again so the Free World can remain free, and the rest of us would do well to take note.
Civilisation thrives on strength and clarity not wishful thinking. To long for a peaceful world without violence is fitting for humans, but barbarians do not crave peace like we do. They can only be defeated with overwhelming violence.
Olivia is a NZ blogger, author and essayist who likes to write about history and its wide influence on our present time. This article was sourced HERE
While the usual suspects in Brussels and the City of London clutch at their pearls, Trump is quietly dismantling the tired old post-war racket that’s been bleeding America dry for decades. No more playing the world’s unpaid security guard for fair-weather friends who talk a big game but deliver sweet FA when push comes to shove. This is Trump giving the middle finger to Atlanticism.
That fact ought to make Tucker Carlson leap for joy and love his president again, but sadly it won’t as he’s too neck deep into his anti-individualist, antisemitic Duginist pseudo-philosophy. Carlson’s new mission is obviously to fracture MAGA, but I doubt that will work despite his 17-million followers on X. He’s just become too silly to be taken seriously anymore. He sacrificed his patriotism for the idiotic occultist views of a new Rasputin and in Mother Russia there's one born every minute.
Speaking of anti-MAGA, even Bret Stephens at the New York Times - hardly a Trump fan - had to concede in his piece a couple of days earlier that this Iran campaign is going a damn sight better than the doomers predicted. Iranian missiles and drones have tailed off sharply, the economic fallout hasn’t cratered the global markets like they swore it would, and American losses have stayed mercifully low compared to the endless quagmires of the past, so far. Stephens still finds room to nit-pick the planning, but you can hear the grudging admission underneath: the results are speaking louder than the panic.
I’m just a Kiwi watching from the other side of the world, but I recognise a world-altering war when I see one. For the anti-war brigade who like to think that no war is ever just, they need to explain exactly why they’re perfectly comfortable with the status quo which happens to be a permanent state of war, i.e,. a murderous Islamic Republic that has spent its entire existence exporting terrorism and threatening civilisation itself, while also terrorising its own citizens within its borders. Anti-war my ass.
Trump has promised forever that he wouldn’t let Iran go nuclear and he’s kept his word without dragging the United States into another ‘forever war’ just to keep European inflated egos intact. He’s exposing the whole post-1971 (Nixon) financial-entanglement game for what it is - a relic that’s long outlived its usefulness. In its place, something saner is emerging: relationships built on actual strength, real production, and putting your own nation first. Places like Pakistan, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, all involved in Trump’s new Board of Peace, are already shifting gears outside the old way of doing things. That tends to happen when theocratic psychopaths next door start lobbing bombs into your civilian populations and infrastructure without any provocation.
The legacy media can wail about “chaos” all they like, but the facts don’t lie. Iran’s military is in ruins, their regime leaders are either dead already or in hiding, oil prices haven’t sent the world into meltdown, and the body count on the American side is nowhere near the nightmare scenarios. Leadership with principle is in play, the kind rooted in Western values of reason, resolve and self-reliance, not endless polite agreements in corridors of power that achieve bugger all.
Trump didn’t blink. He looked at the mess previous administrations left and decided to fix it. Whether the globalists want it or not, the sands are shifting. America is remembering how to put itself first again so the Free World can remain free, and the rest of us would do well to take note.
Civilisation thrives on strength and clarity not wishful thinking. To long for a peaceful world without violence is fitting for humans, but barbarians do not crave peace like we do. They can only be defeated with overwhelming violence.
Olivia is a NZ blogger, author and essayist who likes to write about history and its wide influence on our present time. This article was sourced HERE
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2 months ago Iran’s nuclear capability was obliterated, Khamenei was in charge, the Hormuz strait was open, and 150 Iranian schoolchildren were alive. Oh and the Epstein files hadn’t been released in full. And America had a history of making terrible mistakes, warmongering in the Middle East.
Fast forward to today: Iran’s nuclear capability is obliterated, Khamenei is in charge. But the strait is closed and the schoolchildren are dead. The Epstein files haven’t been released though.
Yes.
NATO was formed as an anti-Soviet alliance. The USSR died in 1991 and so the reason for NATO's existence ceased to be. NATO should have been disbanded shortly afterwards.
There is no legal or moral case for demanding that Europe throws itself into a war that the US began.
NATO has been looking pretty shaky anyway what with Turkey's attitude and some Eastern European members becoming increasingly warm to Moscow. With any luck this will finish it off.
Trump certainly 'fixed' it - Trump style. None so blind as those who don't want to see.
Intelligently crafted Olivia and Barend adds the icing on the cake.
Is Trump putting America first? Gas prices and dead soldiers and crippling national debt would tell you that he is not.
NATO's website says:
"Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance".
"This assistance may or may not involve the use of armed force, and can include any action that Allies deem necessary to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area".
"NATO’s Article 5 is consistent with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which recognises that a state that is the victim of an armed attack has the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence, and may request others to come to its assistance. Within the NATO context, Article 5 translates this right of self-defence into a mutual assistance obligation."
All of which begs the question, how and when was the United States attacked? And why has the United States not invoked Article 5.
The answer is of course that the United States has NOT been attacked, by Iran or anyone else. Nor was there any imminent threat of the US being attacked by Iran. And European leaders have been quick to point that out.
NATO has invoked Article 5 only once in its history. And guess what. That was in support of the US after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And that of course lead to the heavy NATO involvement in the Afganistan war. Not sure how Pierson reconciles that inconvenient fact with her narrative that NATO is a "tired old post-war racket that’s been bleeding America dry for decades".
But as usual it suits Trump to ignore the existing rules-based order and act on what he feels in his bones. If that's his way of "rethinking NATO" he can hardly be surprised by NATO's reaction to his war of choice.
Speaking of bones, William Shakespeare unwittingly summed up Trump well when he had Marc Antony say about Julius Caesar, (another famous tyrant}:
“ The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Nothing changes. And that's being generous to Trump since it implies he has actually done some good. History will be the judge of that. Not the Olivia Piersons of the world.
It is true, Barend, that NATO has "no legal or moral case for demanding that Europe throws itself into a war that the US began", so what’s the point here? If the U S was attacked than it would be entitled to NATO’s support, and in such a case, it might welcome it. After all, Trump wants the Europeans to help open the Straits of Hormuz, where, incidentally, no less than a thousand ships are held up. New Zealand has 4000 containers of precious product also disrupted. Oil apart, what about the effect global trade, then?
I’m not sure that with the demise of the USSR NATO became irrelevant. Remember that Ukraine indicated that it intended to apply for NATO membership – that’s all, just the intention to apply – and Putin quickly launched his disastrous war. Had Ukraine been a member such an invasion would have obligated every member country to come to the defense of Ukraine. We can assume that that would have given Putin second thoughts. Why else did ne beat the gun?
People offended by Pierson's commentary on NATO and Trump really should have been more upset months ago when the US update its official National Security Strategy, because, while Trump's thumbprints are on it, it represents a bi-partisan thinking across Washington D.C. that's driven by very pragmatic assessments of where Europe stands - and in the NSS it now stands in third place behind the Western Hemisphere (meaning Latin and South America) and the Indo-Pacific (meaning China).
That's how far Europe has sunk, and the document is blunt about the reasons, which are not some pissiness against EU leaders but a blunt assessment of the region's trajectory:
This economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.
Put another way, the US - not just the Trump administration - doesn't think Europe will be that important to rank more than third in their priorities, and likely won't be there to help given the growing demographic and political power of Islam.
To make matters worse, in the eyes of many Americans that last has already been demonstrated by the EU's reaction to the Strait of Hormuz. As Secretary of State Rubio put it the other day: The EU wants the US to treat the Russia-Ukraine was as an American war, but doesn't want to treat US-Iran as a European War.
If you wish to see more details and argue the point there's more detail here at my No Minister post, Dear Euros: It’s Worse Than You Think.
Ewan, thanks for your comments. Russia has long seen NATO as a US-led threat, and the expansion of NATO has brought that threat closer and closer to their borders. Had there no longer been a NATO, there would not have been a war with Ukraine.
After starting a war with Iran, Trump is now responsible for the world being held to ransom through the chokehold that Iran has on the Strait of Hormuz. If other countries get involved militarily, it will be to ensure smooth flows of oil the that Strait, not to "help the US out".
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