Speaking on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News Channel, pro-Trump political commentator Victor Davis Hanson sounded off with a vengeance on the European powers involved in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as they are essentially paper tigers with very limited military capabilities and they have proven exceedingly obstreperous and unhelpful during Operation Epic Fury.
Particularly, during his commentary on Monday, April 6, Hanson noted that America really needs to reconsider its NATO alliance and obligations because the situation has shown that the Europeans are unwilling to work with America and are exceedingly weak, militarily, raising serious questions about the present structure of the alliance.
Making that point, Hanson noted quite directly from the start that America needs to investigate and potentially redefine what its obligations are under the NATO treaty, and potentially look into bilateral relations with the helpful ones. He said, “I think we’re going to have to redefine or either redefine our relationship with NATO or start looking at individual NATO allies and bilateral relations.”
Continuing, Hanson described the various ways in which European nations are weak, saying, “And I think it’s reflective of deeper, much deeper problems, whether it’s their open borders, their large, unassimilated Islamic populations, their coercion of free speech, their infertility and demography that’s about 1.3 replacement.”
Adding to that, Hanson noted that the European former powers have caused major problems for themselves by refusing to engage in pro-energy security policies, saying, “They don’t have fossil fuels. They don’t believe in it. And they have created this self-imposed, I guess you would call it a suicidal weakness.”
Then, noting how unhelpful European nations have been during the operation, he said, “I think we need to clarify what NATO is basically saying. In the case of Spain, particularly in France and Turkey, they were almost siding with Iran. But the other countries that didn’t let us, like the U.K. and Italy, as well as those three, they were saying, ‘Well, this wasn’t our war,’ but they don’t realize that we got involved in a lot of their unilateral events. The Falklands was not our war.”
He further explained, giving yet more examples of America helping out the nations that now refuse to help us, “We helped the British. They would not have been able to retake the Falklands without U.S. logistical and resupply. Chad wasn’t our war. The French wanted to go in there to their post-colonial interest and get out the Islamists. That wasn’t our war. Serbia and Kosovo. Kosovo was not a NATO member. It was attacked by Serbia. They told us it was on the doorstep of Europe.”
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Hanson then noted, describing how America helped Europe out of its Libyan misadventure, “You had to come in and lead the coalition of NATO powers. We did. Then they told us that we have to bomb Gaddafi and restore the momentum of the Arab Spring. That wasn’t our war. We came in there. That was a seven-month misadventure. And then they said Ukraine is your war, and we could see that we had interest in stopping Putin, but Ukraine was not a NATO [member].”
Concluding, he noted that they’re not reciprocating that help, saying, “So they engineer a lot of these interventions, and they do it both under the guise of NATO and singularly and unilaterally, like France and the U.K. But then they’re telling us it’s not your war, even though we know now that these missiles had a 2,500-mile range, and they had enough uranium, apparently, for 11 bombs. And they were an immediate and dire threat that we removed for them, and they can’t even repay that reciprocity.”
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