Trump Threatens War… Against NATO
President Trump has done something even the evil Putin hasn’t done… directly threaten a NATO country with military action.
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President Trump has done something even the evil Putin hasn’t done… directly threaten a NATO country with military action.
Ensuring his post-WWII domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet despot Joseph Stalin saw to it that communist governments rose to power, by hook or by crook, in seven nations west of his own between 1945 and ’48.
On Saturday, 12/6, PM Viktor Orban declared that Hungary’s 2026 general election will be the country’s final vote before a looming war reaches Europe.
Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call a man who works for the President of the United States and thirty-one other heads of state — all at once — and can’t tick off any of them? Answer: The SACEUR.
Hey, remember that wild farmer strike in the Netherlands a couple years back? The one where thousands of angry Dutch farmers rolled their tractors onto highways, blocked airports, and sprayed manure at government buildings because the government wanted to shut down half their farms to “save the environment”? Well — guess who was running that …
Plans to deploy Tomahawks to Ukraine will only reveal America’s weakness.
In February 2014, while Western leaders debated sanctions over Ukrainian protests, unmarked soldiers began seizing airfields and government buildings in Crimea. No insignia, no declarations, just discipline and precision — “little green men.”
For a decade, Europe’s generals had lived in a post-Soviet afterglow, studying maps of Kaliningrad, the Suwałki Gap, and the Carpathians. Russia was weak, its army hollow, its population declining.
An alternative history built from the true Balkans laboratory that almost ignited something far larger.
George Washington warned us 230 years ago to “steer clear of entangling alliances.” We didn’t listen. Europe didn’t either in 1914 — and one royal assassination later, the whole continent lit itself on fire.
Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength,” which is frequently bastardized as “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” I’m old enough to remember when debates in the United States were all about matching the Soviets in …
No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
~Carl von Clausewitz
The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia over Kosovo was billed as a humanitarian mission—a righteous stand against ethnic cleansing in Europe. But behind the moral pretense was something more enduring and more dangerous
This is Part 1 of 3, about the story of a broken promise—and the consequences that would echo from the Balkans to the Black Sea.
America was willing to go to war with the Soviet during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a military incursion on our border. Is American willing to go to war with Russia over one of its neighbors?
I was sent this picture a few days ago and asked if it reflected reality geographically or geopolitically. My answer was a simple one to start:
Europe and NATO have been asking themselves of late if they can depend on the United States to be there for them in case of attack by a foreign enemy. But the real question is whether we can depend on them to be worthy of our blood and treasure.
NATO: A lean, mean defense alliance, it stood as the West’s bulwark against Soviet expansion during the Cold War.
A few days ago, Moldova, the second poorest nation in Europe after beleaguered Ukraine, held a national referendum where their people approved, by a slim 50.4%, to join the European Union.
Only Poland and Romania, bordering Ukraine and with 38 and 18 million people respectively, have the population base sufficient to raise troops to continue the war with Russia.