Starmer may have just broken NATO

[Doc7505]

Starmer may have just broken NATO​

European inaction in the face of the Iranian crisis proves what Americans have always feared of their fair-weather allies​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/starmer-may-have-just-broken-nato/

23 Mar 2026 ~~ By Nile Gardiner

The war in Iran has emphatically demonstrated American military might on the world stage. There is only one superpower in the world today, and it isn’t headquartered in Moscow, Beijing or London. Alongside Israel, the United States has decimated much of Iran’s defences, air force, navy, ballistic missile sites, nuclear infrastructure, and its political leadership. All in the space of just three weeks.
The Iran war has also sharply exposed simmering deep-seated tensions in the transatlantic alliance, as well as the open cowardice, petulance and weakness of European leaders, including among its increasingly diminished major powers – principally the UK, France and Germany, as well as the European Union, representing 27 member states.
~Snip~
The anger in Washington at Nato allies lies far beyond the White House and the Executive Branch. Members of Congress have been queuing up to express their disappointment in the failure of European allies to heed the President’s call to join the United States in ensuring the safe passage of international shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz.
~Snip~
The US President, a great admirer of Britain’s heroic role in World War II, has been absolutely right in declaring that Keir Starmer is “no Winston Churchill.” Many Americans I have spoken to have warm memories of the partnership between my former boss, Margaret Thatcher, and her great friend Ronald Reagan. They simply cannot understand how the UK has ended up today with a spineless socialist without a backbone or a moral compass on the world stage. With good reason they fear for the future of Britain and its people.
In Berlin, Chancellor Merz’s s government, in a direct rebuke to US requests for support, has declared that “this war has nothing to do with Nato. It is not Nato’s war.” In Brussels, the EU’s grandstanding foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has called on the US and Israel to end the war against the Iranian regime “so that everybody saves face.” And France’s Emmanuel Macron has condemned US strikes on Iran as “outside international law.”
These are the same European voices that have prodded the United States to do more in support of Ukraine, a non-Nato member in Europe’s own backyard, even with large-scale US military assistance worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the face of Putin’s brutal invasion.
~Snip~
Europe’s arrogant ruling elites are happy to live under the vast security umbrella the United States provides in Europe, with more than 80,000 American troops still on the ground defending Europe for over 80 years since the end of World War II. But today’s European leaders are not even willing to lift a finger to help the US as it confronts a monstrously dangerous Islamist dictatorship in the Middle East – one that has openly threatened to wipe Israel off the map in a nuclear holocaust.
European inaction in support of the United States and Israel over Iran will likely be hugely damaging to both the transatlantic partnership and the Nato alliance. It will weaken trust in the transatlantic alliance in the United States, and further underscore Europe and the UK’s military impotence, its lack of moral clarity, and its refusal to stand up to barbarism and evil. It is a dark and sad day for Europe when its leaders cannot bring themselves to send even a single warship or fighter jet to support the United States, which has shed so much blood in the defence of European nations.


Commentary:
While NATO at inception was a laudable idea, its current iteration has morphed. To the member nations, NATO serves as a protective umbrella which while costing them little, it facilitates the growth of their overly-generous welfare systems. The byproduct of course is to make our own homegrown leftists screech in anger that the US doesn’t also provide similar giveaways, along with paying to protect the whole of NATO.
When the Hammer and Sickle flag came down ,for the last time, from the Kremlin , on Christmas day 1991, that is when the United States should have left NATO. The damn fool politicians in Europe sold out their own people and invited in invaders. Europe use to crusade against the same enemy in more patriotic times.
Perhaps it's time to withdraw all the materiel the U.S. has amassed in Europe and then totally withdraw from NATO.

 

[Crepitus]

Starmer may have just broken NATO​

European inaction in the face of the Iranian crisis proves what Americans have always feared of their fair-weather allies​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/starmer-may-have-just-broken-nato/

23 Mar 2026 ~~ By Nile Gardiner

The war in Iran has emphatically demonstrated American military might on the world stage. There is only one superpower in the world today, and it isn’t headquartered in Moscow, Beijing or London. Alongside Israel, the United States has decimated much of Iran’s defences, air force, navy, ballistic missile sites, nuclear infrastructure, and its political leadership. All in the space of just three weeks.
The Iran war has also sharply exposed simmering deep-seated tensions in the transatlantic alliance, as well as the open cowardice, petulance and weakness of European leaders, including among its increasingly diminished major powers – principally the UK, France and Germany, as well as the European Union, representing 27 member states.
~Snip~
The anger in Washington at Nato allies lies far beyond the White House and the Executive Branch. Members of Congress have been queuing up to express their disappointment in the failure of European allies to heed the President’s call to join the United States in ensuring the safe passage of international shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz.
~Snip~
The US President, a great admirer of Britain’s heroic role in World War II, has been absolutely right in declaring that Keir Starmer is “no Winston Churchill.” Many Americans I have spoken to have warm memories of the partnership between my former boss, Margaret Thatcher, and her great friend Ronald Reagan. They simply cannot understand how the UK has ended up today with a spineless socialist without a backbone or a moral compass on the world stage. With good reason they fear for the future of Britain and its people.
In Berlin, Chancellor Merz’s s government, in a direct rebuke to US requests for support, has declared that “this war has nothing to do with Nato. It is not Nato’s war.” In Brussels, the EU’s grandstanding foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has called on the US and Israel to end the war against the Iranian regime “so that everybody saves face.” And France’s Emmanuel Macron has condemned US strikes on Iran as “outside international law.”
These are the same European voices that have prodded the United States to do more in support of Ukraine, a non-Nato member in Europe’s own backyard, even with large-scale US military assistance worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the face of Putin’s brutal invasion.
~Snip~
Europe’s arrogant ruling elites are happy to live under the vast security umbrella the United States provides in Europe, with more than 80,000 American troops still on the ground defending Europe for over 80 years since the end of World War II. But today’s European leaders are not even willing to lift a finger to help the US as it confronts a monstrously dangerous Islamist dictatorship in the Middle East – one that has openly threatened to wipe Israel off the map in a nuclear holocaust.
European inaction in support of the United States and Israel over Iran will likely be hugely damaging to both the transatlantic partnership and the Nato alliance. It will weaken trust in the transatlantic alliance in the United States, and further underscore Europe and the UK’s military impotence, its lack of moral clarity, and its refusal to stand up to barbarism and evil. It is a dark and sad day for Europe when its leaders cannot bring themselves to send even a single warship or fighter jet to support the United States, which has shed so much blood in the defence of European nations.


Commentary:
While NATO at inception was a laudable idea, its current iteration has morphed. To the member nations, NATO serves as a protective umbrella which while costing them little, it facilitates the growth of their overly-generous welfare systems. The byproduct of course is to make our own homegrown leftists screech in anger that the US doesn’t also provide similar giveaways, along with paying to protect the whole of NATO.
When the Hammer and Sickle flag came down ,for the last time, from the Kremlin , on Christmas day 1991, that is when the United States should have left NATO. The damn fool politicians in Europe sold out their own people and invited in invaders. Europe use to crusade against the same enemy in more patriotic times.
Perhaps it's time to withdraw all the materiel the U.S. has amassed in Europe and then totally withdraw from NATO.

A. the above is a piece of jingoistic nonsense.

B. NATO is a DEFENSIVE organization. They are under no obligation to help with tRump's agression.

 

[Manonthestreet]

A. the above is a piece on jingoistic nonsense.

B. NATO is a DEFENSIVE organization. They are under no obligation to help with tRump's agression.

Probably couldn't if they wanted too.

 

[1srelluc]

A. the above is a piece on jingoistic nonsense.

B. NATO is a DEFENSIVE organization. They are under no obligation to help with tRump's agression.

And just who is NATO defending against?.....Hell's afire, the former Eastern Block countries could easily whip the Russians.

NATO's time has come and gone. As far as I am concerned the US needs to withdraw from NATO and concentrate on the Asian-Pacific.

 

[Crepitus]

Probably couldn't if they wanted too.

And just who is NATO defending against?.....Hell's afire, the former Eastern Block countries could easily whip the Russians.

NATO's time has come and gone. As far as I am concerned the US needs to withdraw from NATO and concentrate on the Asian-Pacific.

Both of you are deflecting instead of addressing the point.

 

[1srelluc]

Both of you are deflecting instead of addressing the point.

What "point" were you trying to make?

You were talking about a defensive org., fine and I pointed out there is no further need for US participation in NATO as there is nothing in the EU for the US to defend against.

Better that mutual assistance treaties be drawn up with what the US determines to be reliable EU allies and IMHO that would be the former Eastern Block countries other than the former East Germany. Maybe Finland.

The Western EU can die on the vine for all I care about them.....Given they are turning Muslim deserves has everything to do with it.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Both of you are deflecting instead of addressing the point.

Do tell

Both of you are deflecting instead of addressing the point.

quit deflecting from valid points made

 

[shockedcanadian]

Starmer may have just broken NATO​

European inaction in the face of the Iranian crisis proves what Americans have always feared of their fair-weather allies​

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/18/starmer-may-have-just-broken-nato/

23 Mar 2026 ~~ By Nile Gardiner

The war in Iran has emphatically demonstrated American military might on the world stage. There is only one superpower in the world today, and it isn’t headquartered in Moscow, Beijing or London. Alongside Israel, the United States has decimated much of Iran’s defences, air force, navy, ballistic missile sites, nuclear infrastructure, and its political leadership. All in the space of just three weeks.
The Iran war has also sharply exposed simmering deep-seated tensions in the transatlantic alliance, as well as the open cowardice, petulance and weakness of European leaders, including among its increasingly diminished major powers – principally the UK, France and Germany, as well as the European Union, representing 27 member states.
~Snip~
The anger in Washington at Nato allies lies far beyond the White House and the Executive Branch. Members of Congress have been queuing up to express their disappointment in the failure of European allies to heed the President’s call to join the United States in ensuring the safe passage of international shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz.
~Snip~
The US President, a great admirer of Britain’s heroic role in World War II, has been absolutely right in declaring that Keir Starmer is “no Winston Churchill.” Many Americans I have spoken to have warm memories of the partnership between my former boss, Margaret Thatcher, and her great friend Ronald Reagan. They simply cannot understand how the UK has ended up today with a spineless socialist without a backbone or a moral compass on the world stage. With good reason they fear for the future of Britain and its people.
In Berlin, Chancellor Merz’s s government, in a direct rebuke to US requests for support, has declared that “this war has nothing to do with Nato. It is not Nato’s war.” In Brussels, the EU’s grandstanding foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has called on the US and Israel to end the war against the Iranian regime “so that everybody saves face.” And France’s Emmanuel Macron has condemned US strikes on Iran as “outside international law.”
These are the same European voices that have prodded the United States to do more in support of Ukraine, a non-Nato member in Europe’s own backyard, even with large-scale US military assistance worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the face of Putin’s brutal invasion.
~Snip~
Europe’s arrogant ruling elites are happy to live under the vast security umbrella the United States provides in Europe, with more than 80,000 American troops still on the ground defending Europe for over 80 years since the end of World War II. But today’s European leaders are not even willing to lift a finger to help the US as it confronts a monstrously dangerous Islamist dictatorship in the Middle East – one that has openly threatened to wipe Israel off the map in a nuclear holocaust.
European inaction in support of the United States and Israel over Iran will likely be hugely damaging to both the transatlantic partnership and the Nato alliance. It will weaken trust in the transatlantic alliance in the United States, and further underscore Europe and the UK’s military impotence, its lack of moral clarity, and its refusal to stand up to barbarism and evil. It is a dark and sad day for Europe when its leaders cannot bring themselves to send even a single warship or fighter jet to support the United States, which has shed so much blood in the defence of European nations.


Commentary:
While NATO at inception was a laudable idea, its current iteration has morphed. To the member nations, NATO serves as a protective umbrella which while costing them little, it facilitates the growth of their overly-generous welfare systems. The byproduct of course is to make our own homegrown leftists screech in anger that the US doesn’t also provide similar giveaways, along with paying to protect the whole of NATO.
When the Hammer and Sickle flag came down ,for the last time, from the Kremlin , on Christmas day 1991, that is when the United States should have left NATO. The damn fool politicians in Europe sold out their own people and invited in invaders. Europe use to crusade against the same enemy in more patriotic times.
Perhaps it's time to withdraw all the materiel the U.S. has amassed in Europe and then totally withdraw from NATO.

The hard truth that Americans need to understand, those who you believed for decades shared the same values as you really did not. It was not until they had a cheaper manufacturing option in China that they felt comfortable enough to just expose their true ideology.

You have to deal with Japan, try and get S Korea back, Israel, Central and S America, force a vote in Greenland, pick out pockets of European nations who believe in Judeo-Christian values.

They need to be your primary allies as they will not sell out to China to forsake America.

I expect that in the next few years the U.S will abandon those who pretended they were allies. I am sure intel sharing is already down significantly with the Five Eyes and rightfully so.