Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth conducts a press conference after taking part in a NATO Defense Ministerial Session at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 13, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander C. Kubitza)
In David Stockman’s Contra Corner, David Stockman explains four reasons America should leave NATO now. He summarizes the points as follows:
The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions:
- First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity to monetize the skyrocketing public debt.
- Second, the only viable starting point for fiscal salvation is slashing the nation’s elephantine Warfare State by at least $500 billion per year.
- Third, the route to that end is a return to the “no entangling alliance” wisdom of the Founders, which means bringing the Empire Home, closing the 750 US bases abroad, scuttling much of the US Navy and Army and withdrawing from NATO and similar lesser commitments elsewhere.
- Fourthly, jettisoning NATO requires debunking its Origins Story and the false claim that it brought peace and security to post-war America when what it actually did was transform Washington into the War Capital of the World, dominated by a panoptic complex of arms merchants, neocon warmongers and a vast Warfare State nomenklatura.
Read more from Stockman here.
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