On 03/31/2016 07:35 AM, trader_4 wrote:
Reinforced his position that NATO is obsolete, useless, saying that
we should withdraw from it, Russians in Ukraine, etc don't matter.

NATO is obsolete. Eisenhower thought the US should withdraw after the
European nations got back on their feet and could handle their own
defense. Instead, after the breakup of the USSR, the US spearheaded the
effort to suck in the former satellite republics, right up the the
Russian border. Clinton and here minions engineered the situation in
Ukraine.

Many of the European nations see Russia as a worthwhile trading power,
not a threat. However the entrenched bureaucracy in the US is still
fighting the Cold War. There's money to be made. To justify a mess like
the F-35, which has more software bugs that Windows 10, you need an enemy.