Donald Trump
has said that NATO is obsolete because it is not really defending its
members’ territory against Islamic terrorism, which is the only
real threat Europe suffers, Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and
geopolitical analyst, told RT.
Washington
says it is worried about Moscow's deployment of Iskander air defense
missiles in Russia's western exclave of Kaliningrad in response to
new US cruise missiles being placed just across the border.
Tension with
Moscow is not the only thing bothering the military alliance.
With a new
US president soon to enter the White House, Western media is raising
concerns over his plans for NATO. The European elites are growing
increasingly worried about what any changes Trump may bring to the
NATO alliance.
NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Stoltenberg urged NATO members to
follow the British example and contribute two percent of GDP to the
military alliance.
Besides the
UK, Poland, Estonia, Greece, and the United States are the only
members of the 28-country alliance meeting the two percent threshold.
The US contributes the highest proportion of its GDP to the military
block, some 3.61 percent, according to NATO’s 2015 Annual Report.
“When
the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were out of business in 1991,
NATO should have gone out of business as well. That didn’t happen.
Unfortunately, NATO doesn’t have any particular function as a
defensive organization - as we saw in Bosnia and Kosovo - it has
behaved as an aggressive organization. It is an organization in
search of a mission. Right now, we have Donald Trump who said that it
is obsolete because it is not really defending its members’
territory against Islamic terrorism which is the only real threat
Europe suffers. So frankly, what good is it?” - Jim Jatras
“NATO
is a product of the Cold War. It does not fit into our time anymore.
My party and other parties; we can imagine a treaty which is for
defense but not against Russia but more or less against another kind
of threats, for example, terrorism…We should rearrange NATO and
give NATO another structure and philosophy. In NATO there are still a
lot of people in power who are attached to this old philosophy.”
- Joachim Paul, from Alternative for Germany Party (AfD)
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