“Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first NATO supreme veallied commander. Shortly after assuming that post, he wrote these words in February 1951:
“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.”
One can only wonder at his reaction today if he learned that 46 years later, the United States was the dominant force in a plan not just to continue our powerful military presence there but to enlarge NATO’s responsibilities and increase U.S. costs and risks in Europe. If his granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, is any guide to his reaction, he would not be pleased. She gathered an impressive group of 49 military, political and academic leaders who joined her in signing an open letter to President Clinton on June 26 that terms the plan to expand NATO “a policy error of historic proportions.”
Why have so many knowledgeable and responsible authorities, in addition to the letter’s signatories, raised powerful objections to NATO expansion? Diplomat-historian George F. Kennan perhaps said it most clearly when he wrote earlier this year in a newspaper commentary: “Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post cold-war era. Such a decision may be expected . . . to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.”
This article was written 27 years ago warning against NATO expansion. It quotes Eisenhower himself who says in 1951 that NATO will have failed if it lasts longer than ten years.
Yet here we are over 70 years later and we now have NATO invading Russia and not ruling out attacks on Moscow.
And I quote:
“The Pentagon on Thursday was asked by a reporter during the daily briefing whether Ukraine forces’ use of American weapons in its ongoing Kursk incursion is “consistent” with US policy of what Ukraine can and cannot do with US weapons. It has become clear that Ukrainian troops are currently using American weapons to attack Russian territory, troops, civilians, and infrastructure.
Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh answered without hesitation that “yes it is consistent with our policy” and explained that Washington has supported the need for “crossfire” from Ukraine back across the border onto Russian positions from which it is being attacked, even if that is on Russian territory……….. when pressed about the scenario of a direct attack on Moscow, she simply said: “I’m not going to put a specific range on it” and thus refused to rule it out.”
Regardless what your views on the Russian-Ukraine war are, the solution is diplomacy not escalation.
Unless of course you want to start World War Three and destroy the West.
Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex and the cross of iron (a reference to William Bryan Jennings Cross of Gold speech implying all wars are banker wars). His foresight was very prophetic and wise.
The totalitarian globalist warmongers need to be stopped before they destroy us all.
Quotes from:
NATO Expansion Would Be an Epic ‘Fateful Error’ – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
