How We Lost NATO
Understanding the debacle, after 10 years of Stoltenberg at the helm, is key.
US President Bill Clinton and NATO Secretary General Javier Solana lead the leaders of the other 18 NATO member states at the NATO Summit celebrating the Alliance’s 50th anniversary, in April 1999, in Washington DC.
Back then NATO was at the peak of its strength and cohesion, formed by what were arguably the 19 most powerful nations in the world at the time combined: Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US.
Today, a quarter of a century later, NATO is a complete shitshow formed by 32 countries with no coherence at all. The ten years Norwegian Socialist Jens Stoltenberg has served as Secretary General (2014-2024) have been a complete disaster for the organization, its member states and their citizenry.
Just yesterday, on October 1st, 2024, former Dutch PM Mark Rutte was inaugurated as the new 14th Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at NATO HQ Brussels.
New NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (left) greets exiting Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at his inauguration ceremony in Brussels NATO HQ on October 1st, 2024. (Photo: NATO).
Since I joined Substack in April 2024, following the recommendation of renown Substacker Duane Lester, I have written 4 articles explaining the current dramatic situation NATO finds itself in, owing to several factors: a key one among them being the disastrous leadership of former Norwegian Socialist PM Jens Stoltenberg.
I foresaw and announced months earlier the anointment of Dutch PM Mark Rutte as Stoltenberg’s successor, and why this was a bad move for the Alliance. I explained the role NATO Secretary Generals should play and shouldn’t play, according to NATO’s own experience through the decades by analyzing the profile/background of the different past Secretary Generals. And I also explained the negative developments during the 75th NATO Summit in Washington DC, this very summer of 2024, hosted by a walking-dead Joe Biden.
I leave you here the links to these 4 articles, in case you are interested in understanding how one of the absolutely most important institutional pillars of the Western World since the end of WWII, has been eroded and ultimately hijacked by the Socialist-Globalist enemies of the West, to the point that the most strategic move for a future Trump-Vance administration would be to exit the organization in order to safeguard the national interests of the United States.
Signing new bilateral defense agreements with serious like-minded nations alone is the only logical way ahead, focusing on the defense of our mutual security and political interests, cutting waste-spending and developing coherent partnerships. Turning NATO into an ever-expanding mini-UN makes no sense whatsoever, when looking at the world developments in 2024 from the point of view of safeguarding our own national interests, a goal and obligation seemingly forgotten by our current so-called leadership across the board in the Western World.
The 4 articles I was referring to are:
1 “Is NATO at 75 truly stronger and more united than ever?” (from April 21st, 2024).
2 “Secretary Generals and the demise of NATO” (from April 29th, 2024).
3 “Want to Know Who Will Run NATO Next? The Fix is Already In” (from May 24th, 2024).
4 “NATO Commits Suicide at its Washington Summit…” (from July 12th, 2024).
If you are interested in the subject, get yourself a couple of hours, pour yourself a nice glass of your favorite whiskey on the rocks, or whatever tickles your fancy, and submerge yourself into the vastness of my humble analysis. I certainly hope it is worth your time.
Comments/questions welcome…
God bless.
PS: There were 25 years (from 1995 to 2020), with their obvious dramatic ups and downs, when the relationship between NATO members and Moscow was for the most part beneficial for both the Western World and Russia. I was lucky to study it from an academic point of view since 1992, and to experience a vast part of it during my deployments on the ground in Eastern Europe (1997-2019). Anyone believing that there can be peace and stability in Europe without a solid partnership with the Russian Federation is either fully ignorant of our history, or is a suicidal arsonist, a Manchurian candidate, a paid operative of the military industrial complex, or an anti-West servant to the CCP…
“History is a vast early warning system.” - Norman Cousins (1915-1990)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and former NATO Secretary General 1995-1999 and former EU Foreign Policy Chief 1999-2009 Javier Solana greet each other effusively after hugging at their meeting in Moscow on November 30th, 2016. (Screenshot from a Ruptly video).