The opportunities presented by this are wondrous.
Of course Montenegro’s military has to brought up to snuff. Montenegro can pretend to spend it’s money on the military by accepting US taxpayer supplied ‘foreign aid’ then spend it on McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and friends.
Then there are the obligatory donations for US military bases and airspace. Thereby allowing your military sons and daughters to have the chance to serve their country by dying for Montenegro.
Even the media wins. It can ignore Russia’s complaint’s about the US promise that NATO would not expand ‘one inch closer to Russia‘ in exchange for German re-unification and dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Imagine US response if the pesky Ruskies put a base in Cuba.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nato-welcomes-another-military-midget/
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During the Cold War, NATO actually meant something. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian predator, the Western Europeans were exhausted, and Washington did not want to face a Soviet-dominated Eurasia.
Today the transatlantic alliance has descended into farce. Earlier this year, NATO invited the small Balkans country of Macedonia to join its ranks. In what now passes for the historic “Great Game” in Europe, officials anxiously awaited the results of Macedonia’s referendum on a national name change. Approval would allow the Western alliance to augment its collective forces by an astounding 8,000 men and 31 tanks.
For a quarter century, the countries of Greece and Macedonia, a small piece of what had been Yugoslavia, were deadlocked over the latter’s use of what Greeks considered to be their birthrate name. Officials in Athens insinuated that their small neighbor harbored aggressive designs and hoped to revive the historic Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great. With its vast legions, the newly independent nation might go on a militarist rampage and occupy Salonika, perhaps even Athens.
It’s the sort of nationalist nonsense that should cause any normal human being to laugh himself silly.
Instead the dispute quickly took on crisis proportions… Read the rest of this entry »
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