STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - NATO AT THE CROSSROADS: TRIBUTE PAID, AND THE TWILIGHT OF AN ALLIANCE
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was born in 1949 out of the smoldering ruins of World War II, when the great capitals of Western Europe lay either shattered by bombardment or hollowed out by exhaustion. It was not merely a treaty but a civilizational covenant, an ironclad vow that the nations of the Atlantic world […] The post NATO AT THE CROSSROADS: TRIBUTE PAID, AND THE TWILIGHT OF AN ALLIANCE appeared first on StoneZone .
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was born in 1949 out of the smoldering ruins of World War II, when the great capitals of Western Europe lay either shattered by bombardment or hollowed out by exhaustion. It was not merely a treaty but a civilizational covenant, an ironclad vow that the nations of the Atlantic world would stand as one against the encroaching specter of Soviet expansion. Article 5 is the beating heart of the alliance, declared that an attack upon one would be regarded as an attack upon all. This was not diplomatic ornamentation it was a stark and solemn guarantee designed to prevent the Red Army from ever again rolling westward across a defenseless continent. The United States, ascendant and economically…Open