NATO Is An Expensive Paper Tiger: Nation-States and “Collective Security”, Redux

“Yet once an American president calls NATO’s bluff—either out of chagrin or ignorance—the treaty will [be revealed as] little more than a ceremonial organization of epaulettes and ribbons without much will or might. Vladimir Putin understood that reality when he went into the Crimea and eastern Ukraine.” Giving war guarantees to half the nation-states of Europe and the Caucasus is madness.