David J. Bercuson: How Russian President Vladimir Putin is keeping NATO alive

I don't agree with two points. First, for the life of me I can't see anything that POTUS has done to weaken the alliance, so I look at that as political commentary. Second and internally, disagreements between alliance members are NOT a sign of weakness, they are a sign of strength the alliance is strong. It's only if the dissent significantly impacts a military operation. In both Kosovo and Iraq the dissenting alliance members knew their lack of participation while demonstrating somewhat a lack of unity would not impact the military operation that was pending in anyway so they knew in advance their lack of participation would not impact the military campaign and it didn't. I would view it as a sign of weakness if alliance members continued to maintain normalized relations if we broke off relations.....that would be a weakening of the alliance. Or for example if the alliance members withheld their forces and that resulted in collapse or change in military plan.....that would be a weakening of the alliance. Having dissent in an alliance I feel is a lot more healthy than no dissent whatsoever. The second invasion of Iraq the Germans were correct in stating several times we were not making a solid business case in order for them to participate. Despite their dissent, however, we continued to use Germany for medical support, airlift support, etc in support of the second Iraq war. Germany did not collapse the operation because they disagreed.
I do agree with the point that Putin is a military idiot that is not a whole lot smarter than Saddam Hussien and yes he is a foil for NATO to use in order to point to and say "look at that threat over there" Lets be 100% honest though. Russia has no economic or industrial stamina to engage in a long war and it's military is so inferior it probably would not win a short war with either the United States and/or NATO. So I never lose any sleep over Putin's threats except the nuclear ones. The verbal Nuclear threats are becomming increasingly stupid on the part of Putin and I can see an accident happening or a small nuclear exchange taking place without the entire Russian chain of command being in on the decision.

Good morning LTC,
"United States President Donald Trump may be doing his best to render NATO irrelevant and certainly to undermine traditional American alliances with European allies..."
"NATO has serious problems today, no one should doubt. Perhaps the most serious is the rise of nationalistic hard-right governments in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Greece and other countries."
These two above quotes from the article prove the writer is a flaming liberal idiot. Unfair financial burden carriying NATO is what caused POTUS to inform NATO countries to pony up. Why should the American tax payer pay for Europe's security? What a great deal for the Reborn Holy Roman Empire.
NATO's serious problems in Europe is due to the sold out globalist governments allowing an invasion of a 7th century cult. Which brings chaos and change. You know, like murder and rape of the Infidel and Jew.
What a stinking wanker the author must be to wirte such verbal poo. I noticed the author had nothing harsh to write about Turkey. It appears, he supports Tyrants that bring strict control over the unwashed masses. We know it as Sociolism. See Stalin, Hitler and Maduro in Venezuela.
Have a great day and thank you for asking if I agree with David J. Bercuson Sir.

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